Hi Deb

Do I read this right?, you have still some sanding marks in the bottom
of your bowl, not marks made by your chuck, if that is the case, than I
would try to use hand sanding with the grain, I assume here, that
Himalayan cedar is not a very hard wood, and hand sanding would not be
that hard to do, hitting it with your sanding disk might make things
worse, just my thoughts on it.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Dr. Deb wrote:

I just finished turning a bowl 8" out of himalayan cedar (wonderful stuff
to turn and smells a lot like camphor wood) limb root piece. Bowl turned
nicely and have a bit of bark inclusion around the middle of the piece.

Being a fairly new turner, I decided to finally take the plunge and wad a
sock over my chuck, put the finished bowl over the sock and bring the tail
stock up against the tenon to part it off. Worked well, as you all know it
does. However, I left some marks in the bottom of the bowl. Not deep, but
looks like I did not sand all the gouge marks out of the bowl.

As I said the bowl is finished (shellac and wax). What is the best way to
polish out the marks out of the bowl bottom? I have a small (a 2" and a
3") sanding disk I could use. I was just wondering if there was a better
method before I hit it with the sanding disks.

Thanks

Deb