Where Is The Line Between Investing Time and Wasting Time? Cracks In a Vase Make Me Wonder...

The wood was too nice to burn, but the huge crack said otherwise. I figured I could deal with it. The finished video, with several speedups to keep the time down, was 50 minutes long. Would you sit still that long? I wouldn't. I went through it again and sacrificed smoothness for speed. The video is probably better for it. Just starting out in woodturning? Learn some basics @TurnAWoodBowl I learn advanced techniques on YouTube mostly from two masters, one young and one my age, ‪@tomislavtomasicwoodturning‬ and ‪@RichardRaffanwoodturning‬ If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer    / oregonoldtimer   you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until 2021. I watched a few woodturning videos, read a David Ellsworth book, and got the bug. Prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started. After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with bed extensions that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expected this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life, but lathes are like boats: You always want a bigger one. Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner. My other channel: ‪@OregonOldTimer‬ Woodturning products are usually available on my Etsy shop: https://ericrushwoodturning.etsy.com and maybe on my website: https://www.ericrush.com