Richard Raffan: An Unhappy Re-turn - a wooodturning disaster movie.

Re-shaping a 50 year-old box produces several archetypal chucking and design situations that need solving. It all goes well until I decide to turn the lid flange rather than sand it. That leads to more re-chucking issues and finally a woody explosion. You see all the turning in real time, whilst the sanding is mostly at X4 or X8 speed. You can see the lid become a useful little bowl in • Richard Raffan turns a...