In the wood turning club I'm in, Someone usually brings in a junky piece of wood, to challenge anyone else wants it to try and see what they can make out of it. Generally its a piece out of their firewood pile. This month I accepted the challenge. The wood is called Madrone. It had a largish crack right in the middle.

I came up with a plan.

I've been wanting to try a multi sided piece. This was my chance. In the planing stages of this piece I realized that with the 5 jaw Longworth chuck that I built, my options were slim.

Five sided it would be\o/ Here I'm pushing it against the chuck and just using friction and a center to hold it in the lathe. You can see I found another inclusion in the wood.

I forgot to take any in progress pictures. I kind of got distracted turning this bowl.

A couple of whats left pictures:o)

Just turn everything off that's not a bowl:o)

I thought the crack would get smaller the farther in I went. I was wrong.

Crack from the outside.

Almost done.

I'll rub some paste wax on it after the gold paint dries.

This was a fun project and I learned a few things:o) Thanks for watching!
~Wes~