Buggered!!

[flexi]

Hi All,
Well that didn't go too well did it!!
This was a piece of Yew from HMS Victory, I new as cross cut it would be difficult, but not this bad...oh well some you win others shatter and send bits to the four corners of the workshop...

 

[alan morrison]

Yew is a splintery enough timber even when not cross cut.
Good on you for trying.

 

[flexi]

Yew is a splintery enough timber even when not cross cut.
Good on you for trying.

Got another to try....loads of CA as I turn it thinner!

 

[Adal6]

I hope mark you have victory on your next pen

 

[ValleyBoy]

Hang on. Are you sure that isn’t the exact part of the boat that was damaged by the fatal musket shot that took down Lord Nelson himself?

 

[pittswood]

Bad luck mate, try very thin CA on every forth cut, It worked for me last year on some punky wood.
Kelvin.

 

[MikeC]

Hang on. Are you sure that isn’t the exact part of the boat that was damaged by the fatal musket shot that took down Lord Nelson himself?

Good selling point Ash!!
Charge twice as much as usual!!
Mike

 

[Bill Mooney]

Hi Mark, as you know I turn a lot of xcut blanks and I always come in from the ends of the blank to the middle. This greatly reduces the chance of losing the ends of your blank. Good luck mate.

 

[Tom.1946]

Bad luck Mark, but will look forward to the finished piece....

 

[Hallelujahal]

I see no chips!