Sh-t happens
 

Tough! - now do some carving on it and then it goes on the shelf!

Martin - into carving wood and turning wood also.

On 3/19/2018 8:35 PM, graham wrote:
I had almost finished roughing out the inside of this turning (prior to
scraping the tool marks and taking the wall thickness down to 3mm) when....
https://postimg.org/image/gcuoonmqt/

The large "tenon" on the base was the result of finding a major check in
the wood during initial shaping, otherwise it would have been deeper.

Oh, well...!
Graham