Nice to see you where able to rework this beautiful piece of wood into a very nice bowl, or plate.

Thank you for sharing the experience. The smaller bowl is still beautiful.

Thanks for sharing all your invaluable expertise, I had a close shave with a cracked piece the other day so this is quite prescient. Inspired by your twig pots I've made and sold quite a few this last few weeks so thanks again. Also I've just come by a large mulberry trunk, green as grass , 2m x about 500mm across. I'm thinking bowls bit also microwaved wobble pots. Any thoughts/tips on mulberry much appreciated. Many thanks once again for all you do and wishing you a merry Christmas 🎉

Appreciate seeing how you identified the problem and resolved it before it became a dangerous situation. It was really helpful seeing how you re-shaped the blank to take advantage of as much of the remaining wood as possible. The figure in the wood really produced a very nice looking result.

Tassie oak is generally, Mountain Ash

Lovely box,and craftsmanship Richard,a perfect example of a suction fit lid….and it’s going all the way to Gods country to.thanks for sharing,cheers Colin Bagpiper.

All that "firewood" would make some very nice things.

Thanks! for all of your teaching and Merry Christmas

Thanks Richard for another delightful dish.

Thanks for the masterclass!

Turned out pretty nice from something some one would have thrown away i realy liked the color of that wood

The more I watch your videos the more I appreciate the skill involved. Having bought a lathe in February I came across your videos quite quickly and I turned a scoop like you demonstrated thinking "that looks quite easy" Well I only had 2 chisels. A parting tool and an undercutting bowl scraper. The wood flew out of the lathe a few times but I did a presentable scoop which I was really chuffed with. Since then I have acquired way more chisels and chucks and I'm now turning some really nice pieces having studied your videos a lot closer than the first time around. All I can say is thank you for sharing your wisdom. I wish you still lived in the UK so I could come and watch you in person. Best regards Tim

Thanks Ritchard you make it look so easy this is one of those techniques ive bin watching you and Thomas do that i realy want to learn is it that easy on dry wood or harder to do

Now I'm hungry for pasta! I'm glad you were able to save as much wood as you did. Changing the center was something I did not think of but makes perfect sense. I'll put that in the memory bank for future withdrawal.

Can you show/tell us how you round over the side of a scraper or skew so it glides easier over the toolrest. Do you use a benchgrinder or a file? Thank you!

A lesser "you tuber" would have continued turning that original blank until the crack failed and the chunk flew off. I'm glad you stopped and broke it off.

Just wanted to add my voice to fellow turners who start of with a blank and a great idea. And end up with a pile of saw dust and a piece of fire wood😞.

Lovely piece 👌. Safety first 👏. Merry Christmas.

Another good reason to develop turning methods for bowls that don't require standing in the ejection area. It's a good argument for learning and using puch cuts, especially for roughing.

It’s unusual to see a grand master out of their comfort zone, but if it can happen to the best, the rest of us are a little bit reassured.❤

This is another very important lesson about how to use tools and to avoid catches. Thank you Richard: you are an excellent teacher.

That crack would only have held if the right glue was used and clamped properly. Good decision to test it.

Of all the turners I follow, your videos are my absolute favorite. Thanks for creating and sharing them. I hope to someday control my gouges as effectively as you. I work from a mid-sized lathe so your projects are perfect examples for me to study.

Very nice, especially considering you lost a big piece of wood.

Glad you are safe and produced a beautiful recovery! I still turn questionable pieces of wood (usually I turn what I can get my hands on) but I am always aware of the danger and stay out of the line of fire!

Superb lesson, Sir. One should never risk an injury over a piece of wood, no matter how much figure it may hold. I feel like it’s important to keep the grand scheme of things in mind when I’m turning. Thanks for modeling this behavior.

I've got a lovely piece of spalted Birch and person that gave it for me told me they sealed it. The splitting tell the different story. I'm going to carve into the splits and see if they're worth casting it in epoxy, but I'm starting to think it's firewood, rather than an injury. Thanks for showing and explaining your process.

Good save RIchard. Tasmanian Oak is indeed a Eucalypt.

always great watching your videos, learned a lot from you. thanks

A beautiful dish, and a wise warning about the risks of filling cracks. Thanks for another educational and entertaining video.

I was at a garage sale near Dickson and helped clear away a lot of the blanks that nobody wanted. A lot of it was splitty. I will take your warning and watch out.

Videos jetzt auf Deutsch, absolut großartig. Ich werde mir jetzt alle Videos von Anfang an anschauen, lernen und verstehen, was sie immer gesprochen haben. Leider kann ich nicht gut englisch. Einer meiner Lieblingskanäle. Vielen Dank für Ihr Engagement.

Real craftsmanship. So fullfilling to watch and realize that bringing woodturningwork to this level of perfection takes patience and time. Thanks for sharing. Great stuff for starting woodturners like me, in fact fruitful for all levels of experience.

A good save that turned into a very nice plate. Love the timber!

Well spotted Richard if that was to fly off at high speed It could’ve quite easily gave you the proverbial middle part. Safety first at all times. I’ve got a lovely piece of yew chucked up ATM with a similar looking crack or inclusion so I’ll have to proceed with caution 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 great work tuition and guidance 👍🏻

Such a valuable safety lesson regarding the crack, thank you. Nowadays, I wear my JSP powercap (powered respirator/face mask) all the time, for this very reason, along with dust protection. Beautiful dish at the end too, very well done indeed. Thank you.

Thanks for showing the consequences of glue ups, good explanation of cutting and repurposing the bowl. The headline had me worried 😅 glad it turned out so beautifully. Love watching you work. Thanks Richard.

Glad you didn't get caught by that chunk Richard. Even you seemed cautious of it because of your more delicate cuts. Beautiful plate and thanks. Cheers Geoff

Great work, I enjoyed watching that.

Thanks again for calling the tool & RPM. Huge help. How you see things like the bowl you made in that chuck of wood escapes me. I believe it’s called experience. Brilliant! That was a fun video. OH! I am using rice oil and a chunk of REAL beeswax. I traded for it. She melted it down and then strained it thru cheesecloth then hit it for a second with a torch. Then gave it to me. NICE!

What an exquisite little thing! As delicate as a seashell...marvelous.

thankthank you for this video and sharing absolutely beautiful!

A very nice little bowl Richard. It shows some very interesting figure. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

That is a very lovely small bowl, an elegant and simple shape that shows off the figure splendidly. Also, old sock and new sock, what more could I want? Many thanks for another educational and entertaining video.

They look fantastic

It is always a pleasure and instructive to watch how you identify the usable blanks from a rough piece of timber, particularly one like this that had so many areas of punky wood. Watching how you turned the bowls was also very instructive; I really like the way you chucked the pieces using pin jaws rather than a woodworm screw -- definitely going to try that on an upcoming project. Thank-you for showing how you recover from catches and accidental tool contact; that's very helpful. The resulting pieces were awesome -- that blackwood has absolutely beautiful figure in it and finished so well.

Really an excellent shaped little bowl. I admit I’ve never even heard of Tasmanian musk, but it sure is beautiful.

That little bowl has some beautiful grain in it.

What a beautiful piece of wood, turned into a delightful little bowl. A good reminder that you don’t need a large blank to make a lovely looking bowl. I wish I could turn bowls with walls as thin walls as yours !

Beautiful, thank you for sharing ❤️. Merry Christmas