Chuck Ellis
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- Tellico Plains, Tennessee
Well, actually only one and he's under my eye....
I was doing a really nice spalted maple bowl this afternoon, got it all hollowed, sanded and ready to finish the bottom... it's a 10" diameter, so only way I can do the bottom is with my home made Longworth chuck... got it all set up, the tail stock in place and most of the tenon turned away... but need to finish the nub under the tail stock, so moved it back and started cutting the 1 inch or so nub... the bowl wobble loose in the chuck, so I stopped it, reset everything and started again... my lathe will only go down to 450 and that's the speed I work the longworth with since it's not the most stable holding method... as soon as I touched the nub again, whammo the bowl jumped off the lathe and as quick as I ducked, it whacked me on the cheek just below the left eye... I had taken my face shield off so I could see a little better... I'll not do that again
I'm going to have a black eye tomorrow.... just in time for our 18th anniversary... On our first date, after I seated her in the passenger side of my car, at that time a '72 Crown Victoria with no frame around the windows, Dianne reached across the car and flipped the driver side door open... it was dark enough I couldn't see the edge of the window and it caught me just under the right eye.... first two weeks of our relationship I sported a shiner... I told everyone she beat me into submission... keeping up the beatings to keep me in line
I was doing a really nice spalted maple bowl this afternoon, got it all hollowed, sanded and ready to finish the bottom... it's a 10" diameter, so only way I can do the bottom is with my home made Longworth chuck... got it all set up, the tail stock in place and most of the tenon turned away... but need to finish the nub under the tail stock, so moved it back and started cutting the 1 inch or so nub... the bowl wobble loose in the chuck, so I stopped it, reset everything and started again... my lathe will only go down to 450 and that's the speed I work the longworth with since it's not the most stable holding method... as soon as I touched the nub again, whammo the bowl jumped off the lathe and as quick as I ducked, it whacked me on the cheek just below the left eye... I had taken my face shield off so I could see a little better... I'll not do that again
I'm going to have a black eye tomorrow.... just in time for our 18th anniversary... On our first date, after I seated her in the passenger side of my car, at that time a '72 Crown Victoria with no frame around the windows, Dianne reached across the car and flipped the driver side door open... it was dark enough I couldn't see the edge of the window and it caught me just under the right eye.... first two weeks of our relationship I sported a shiner... I told everyone she beat me into submission... keeping up the beatings to keep me in line