First...

After my remote mentors got the lesson through on how to sharpen my bowl gouges, of course I had to try and turn a bowl. I chucked a small piece of maple on, and managed to get things into round...

So far so good...


I continued on, however this morning... and it was looking pretty good. I had it fairly smooth inside, I sanded it to 220 and everything.

Then I turned it around on the chuck, padded the chuck with some paper towel and expanded the jaws into the bowl. Had I simply removed the foot, and left it at that, all would have been well.

So I sighed, pulled it off of the chuck & signed it.