Harbor Freight Lathe

Nope. No alt.binaries.*, and I didn't discover the usenet photo archive thing until yesterday. I'm still trying to figure out why the photo archive page spikes my memory usage off the chart and boggs my computer to a crawl with a swapfile thrash fest. If I get that figured out, maybe I'll take a look at your hatchet. :)

Dave wrote: (clip) BTW, did you look at the mortar and pestle? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I just got around to it. It looks like you must have very good hatchet technique. I guess I assumed that you used the hatched to chop out a mortar and pestle, much the way canoes are made. Seeing the result, I assume you used the hatchet like a skew. Right?

Sounds like an interesting challenge for our woodturning club.

I used it as a skew and sort of as a scraper, depending on where I was on the bowl. The inside was dicey, so I used the toe of the hatchet as a sorta scraper to hollow it out and then used an edge to clean it up. I didn't want to use anything but the hatchet since I was copping an attitude, so rather than sand, I used the side of the hatchet to burnish the outside of the bowl. Towards the bottom you can see a ridge where I let the edge touch. On the inside I burnished using the handle. This was a stupid and dangerous thing to do, and if my temper hadn't gotten away with me I wouldn't have tried it. I don't respond well to insults, and even though he was joking, it pissed me off. I try not to let it happen, but I guess everybody saw me do once here as well, and for that I apologise. What I'm saying, is if you decide to try this, be VERY careful. A catch with a hatchet could be life threatening. it'll also mess up your pants. Thanks for looking at it, and the comments, Dave in Fairfax

Depending on where it lands in your pants, you might never sing baritone again either. :)