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I feel like we should be hearing taps. As I am getting older, if this was me, I would use a black marker on A (cap and jug) red marker on B (cap and jug). Jim, this video is so totally why I haven’t missed a single one. You show us even the most talented can mess up. We need to see this. Thank you.
Even better, label the bottles, along with the caps? The bottles contain the product, not the caps.
The bottles have labels on them so that’s not a problem. The red marker might be a good idea tho, thanks
@@SpragueWoodturning it would be great to have different coloured labels from the company. But even government do same thing BC health card and drivers license look the same! I know presented my health card at a road side check, and yes I do have the license too! LOL
I love your boldness to show us novices that experts have failures too. It’s a good lesson for all of us. Thanks!
We’re human too, lol. Thanks
Ahhh, Jim, you sneaky little devil! Between titling the video "the rescue", to the optimism throughout the video, I NEVER saw that ending coming! 🤣 Very fitting for the amount of frustration that platter gave you.
It felt sooooo good, lol. Thanks 😊
You win some you loose some, and to be honest you win most. Great effort, you did all you could.
Thanks 🙏
Been following this one from the first video. Fascinating journey. You made a valiant effort to pull it back from the brink, but it just didn't want to be and was crying out for a merciful ending. On to the next masterpiece.
Next one will get the Defender, lol. Thanks
It was a gallant effort Jim. I seriously thought you had it whupped. I really wanted to see the walnut and yellow combination. Please try it again. Thanks for entertaining us out here in KZhead land.
I’ve got the other half from the same log and will do a redo in the future, thanks
I'm working through your catalogue but this is the first one I've felt compelled to comment on - your work ethic is incredible. You often mention your video deadlines or client pressures but your output is incredible. The fact that you are using this channel to educate and inform budding turners is wonderful. I look forward to continuing my journey through your channel
Awesome! Thank you very much!
Jim, in a time where there are so many pretenders as others have indicated a true professional such as yourself, can admit and learn from their mistakes. I salute you. Love the teaching it's like learning from my my favorite uncle. Thank you!
Great! Thanks for watching!
😂 I loved the glamour shot at the end, it made me laugh instead of being sad at the loss of such a beautiful piece. You gave it your all! I would’ve done the same. Sorry it wasn’t savable. I’ve heard of people losing an entire bottle of resin just by making the simple mistake of putting the hardener cap on the resin bottle. Thanks for showing all the aspects of working with resin.
Thanks for watching 🔨🔨
The back end of that Ax was the perfect ending. How dare that resin do the opposite of what you wanted. Good Job for stickin with it, and good job for learning and passing it on to others! Thx for the video✌
Thanks 🔨🔨🔨
This just made me want to cry!
Well even as the piece was giving you the old one finger salute my mind was still trying to come up with ways to rescue it. The hammer was not one I was considering but it was a fitting end. I have a bowl I tried to rescue sitting on my work bench that I throw odds and ends in. I’m thinking that a Viking funeral with Thor’s Hammer may be in order. Next week all over the World defective bowls will be traveling to Valhalla! lol
It will get the Winchester Defender next time, lol. Thanks
Bummer! I will say I do appreciate seeing failed projects (once in a while) as well as the ones that turn out perfectly.👍.
We all make mistakes and I think it important to show them here, next time it will get the Winchester Defender, haha. Thanks
I love your honesty in presenting the good the bad and the ugly. Such a shame this didn't work out
Can’t win them all. Thanks for watching!
Well done for trying to save the plater. Thank you for showing us that even best don't always get it right, you've given me some confidence to carry on 🤣
Great! 🔨🔨 Thanks
At one stage there i thought you had it licked. I totally get what you say when you said that sometimes a piece just doesn't want to play ball with you and fights all the way. My weeping resin piece was still weeping after a year before my wife made me retire it. i appreciate your persistence and commend you on your attitude. Thanks for not giving up
Thanks! Get that 🔨🔨 and give it what it deserves, haha.
Awww😢😢😢 I was rooting for you to save this piece. And then when you decided to send it off, I was thinking yes... You have build a catapult or giant slingshot to blast it away with. 😎😎😎
Hummm, possibly the next one, lol.
Jim, Thanks for this video. Most YT videos never show the fails or mistakes. This piece was not a total loss because you learned a valuable lesson and shared that lesson with us and now, we have learned it. As was demonstrated by the fabulous ending under the blue handled maul, this chunk of wood gave it's all so that we could all learn. It should not be mourned any more than the shavings that you clean up after a turning. All that is left on the shop floor is needed to produce the finished bowl, platter or whatever you are making. It is a fact of woodworking that some of the wood will end up as scrap, sawdust, cut-offs, shavings or pieces that must be "chucked" Look at it this way - we all learned how NOT to mix resin - a good thing to know and something we will all use in our own turnings. Thanks again for helping us with this valuable video.
I gave it a fitting end and I hope all will learn from it. Thanks!
I love your finished piece - lol. Thanks for trying to save it. Valuable lesson about dealing with resins.
Thanks for watching!
Hi Jim, just watched this with my better half and we were quite entertained. We both think you have an amazing talent and we are not talking woodturning. Not that you are not good at woodturning, just you exel in teaching and entertaining. We both look forward to your next video 🙏
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
Thank you for showing fails as well as successes.
Thanks for watching!
Very nice send off thank you for the prices you care for the barrel yarns wife is still going through cancer treatments the piece I talk to you in the past did the same with that one I finally drilled a hole through the center Mark held it over fire with a chain and burned it till it’s dust
Burned at the stake, love it, lol. It will get the Defender next time, but for now the 🔨🔨will do, thanks
I admire your tenacity. You gave it a go and learned from it. And the send-off was great!
Thanks 🔨🔨
Now that was a perfect send off when shotguns are frowned upon. Luckily, I can take my 'mishaps' up to the cabin and use them as targets. I'm glad you tried to save this piece rather than just tossing it to the side. Too many give up on pieces (& other things in life) without putting in the effort to save it. You will never know what could have been if you didn't try or as I use to tell my students, you only fail when you don't try/put in the effort. We learn more from our mistakes than getting it 'perfect' the 1st time. Keep up the great work.
We certainly do! Thanks
One of the reasons I watch your videos. You show both sides of what happens and how we can learn from it. Best part was the end with the pieces turning showing the finished part. LOL . Thanks again.
The beauty shot, hahaha. Thanks
I like your pre-rersin inley work more. but i appreciate your tenacity and that you also show, when you fail. that's how you learn. thank you.
It’s the best way to teach others, thanks
Thanks for taking me on this journey with you, Jim. It makes this mortal feel better about his mistakes. Two weeks of perseverance resulting in what I am sure was a painful axe strike. Looking forward to the next video 🌞
It actually felt pretty good to rid it from my life, haha. Thanks
Hi Jim. Loved this video start to finish. The send off was very appropriate and effective. Sorry it didn’t work out as a finished piece, but lots learned. Take care.
Thanks 🔨
It was great that you took the time to try to fix it so we could see the process and results.
Thank you very much!
Lol I'll bet that hammer blow never felt so good. I think every turners been there. I congratulate you on your persistence but there's a time to say enough.thank you once again we're all human
It felt pretty good, surprised how it blew up tho, lol. Thanks
That’s the ole varsity hale Mary epoxy wood turner’s try at the greatest effort I’ve ever seen! Just keep moving on, Jim. Magnificent effort, man!
Thanks 🙏
I'm going through your vids in a really random order as I just came upon your channel, and I'd actually watched the redux of this project before this video - so it was nice to see the origin story :D I also love that the vid is titled "The Rescue" and ends with a sledgehammer to the face XD Absolutely brilliant! I wrote this in another comment; but it really is refreshing to see you keep the mishaps and learning curves in your uploads - you are very clearly remarkably skilled and knowledgable, but more than that, you are honest with it and that makes you 100x better than any "perfect" project maker. Thank you for sharing your skills with us, Jim, you are inspirational :D
Welcome aboard! Thanks for your kind comments!
Enjoyed seeing where the breaks occurred - and where they didn't! That is, not along the original resin/wood boundaries. So even though it didn't cure properly the original casting was quite strong!
Yes it was, but it just wouldn’t stop weeping resin, thanks 🙏
Awesome try on the save Jim. I’m glad you didn’t give up on this one. It was worth a shot my friend. I’ll be looking forward to the next one
Agreed! Thanks for watching!
Took guts to try again / keep at it. Took guts to "call it" when the weeping (the resin, not your eyes 😂 ) started again. Keep at it; I'll keep watching.
Like we said in the Army, if you don’t at first succeed, get a bigger hammer, lol. Thanks
I am in your camp buddy. I would've tried everything as well. I hate admitting defeat. Good try and thanks for showing everyone that this happens. Keep on keeping on
Thanks 🙏
Good effort trying to save that thing. Glad you shared this experience. That was a very fitting send off you wound up giving it.
Thanks, lol.
The send-off that was totally funny I've never worked with epoxy resin but I spent my whole life as a automobile painter using poly urethane clears and lots of pearls and you know once in awhile s*** happens like that you do amazing work.
Sometimes it just needs the 🔨🔨🔨 thanks!
JIm: people could buy those pieces for shop reminders when they use resin. The summer Olympics could have used it for a discus. All in all you have given a wealth of information that I know turners are going to appreciate. I used to heat my shop with some of my mistakes. Take care and stay safe.
My shops been heated with a few as well, lol. Thanks
I'm sorry that you couldn't save the platter, but as a chainsaw carver I totally understand not wanting to give up on a piece. But when you hit that platter. Thank you for sharing your work and how sometimes you just gotta let it go. I laughed when you showed it at the end. Take care.
The beauty shot at end is pretty funny, lol. Thanks
Totally funny 😄
Thanks for posting this Jim. Sometimes things happen but I see a lot of pretty pieces of walnut that could be used in a cast with cutoffs. Might need to grind some resin off but all may not be completely lost. Thank you for showing the Hercules in action and a little closer. It is helpful to learn from your mastery of the tool.
All these pieces are garbage, can’t risk putting them into other pieces and have uncured resin leach out, thanks
Way to fight back, Jim. Show it who is BOSS.
Lol, sometimes the 🔨🔨🔨🔨 is the answer! Thanks
Kudos to you for trying as hard as you did.
Thanks!
Very educational. I appreciate your tenacity and I can empathize with your frustration. Thanks for sharing your experience Jim.
Thanks for watching!
Oh Wow! That piece really gave you the gears Jim! Nice effort trying to save it though. And a fantastic send off.
Thanks, lol.
So sorry you were not able to save this project. Good try; it’s amazing how much resin this wood absorbed!
It drank it up! Thanks for watching
Absolutely love that you keep trying to help the beauty come through
😊 thank you
Bummer Jim, you tried and that’s how we all learn. Your tips, instruction and techniques are valued by all. To put it nicely, sometimes doodoo occurs. Maybe you can incorporate some of the shattered pieces in another project just to get a bit of satisfaction. You keep turning and I’ll keep watching.
All the pieces are garbage and not savable, thanks
👍🏻 A fight until the end,plus a proper send off. Thank you for showing us that everyone can mess up even people who are professionals. Again thank you for the informational video and the reminder to stay focused.
Thanks for watching!
"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused" Chinese proverb. Great try.
Can’t win them all. Thanks
Everything may have gone wrong but it was certainly worth it! What a beauty. ❤️
Hang on I didn’t see the very end…. But I’m sure I saw this finished platter?!!
Ya can’t win them all, lol. Thanks for watching!
A fitting end to a royal pain. I don't blame you for trying to save it, but enough was enough.
Yup, lol 🔨🔨🔨
This was a great video. I love that you tried to save it and all of the things you learned along the way.
Thanks 😊
I'm with you, Jim, it was worth the extra try but it is what it is. Looking forward to next week!!
Thanks 🙏
I was so excited to see this work out. But the smash was satisfying.
Yes it was, lol. Thanks
Oh God Jim, I felt bad when you had to break that plate in pieces, almost as if I had done it to one of my turnings. I share your obsession about rescuing turnings and often learn out of these processes. I had a little adventure with a bowl that I blew up when I tried to improve ma scraping! I almost trown it out but decided to pratice repairs with CA glue, resin (pro series), alcool tinting and ... many hours. Luckily I could save the piece ... that altough imperfect is quite presentable. All my condolenses for your walnut platter.; It will go better next week.
It’s good to experiment on pieces like this but this one need to go, lol. Thanks
I’m impressed with your patience or is it loyalty to your work? Nice send off!
Thanks 😊
So sorry it didn’t work. I really thought it might after a week or two. Kind of like chasing a crack in wood hoping it will go away but finally explodes on you. You do great work. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks 🙏
That was a noble effort! I paint and I’m always reluctant to just give up and gesso over a terrible painting and re-purpose the canvas. This was an interesting saga and, since you couldn’t shoot it, this was the next best send off.
It actually felt good to give it the 🔨🔨 lol. Thanks 😊
It was worth a try and a valuable lesson learned.
Thanks 🙏
So sorry to hear of your loss Jim. I, personally, would have used some M-80s but several family members work for a fireworks store so I have easy access year round. Time to get back on the horse.
It will get the Defender next time, lol. Thanks
The stack of pieces make a pretty nice sculptural piece.
That’s about all it’s good for, lol. Thanks
Don't ya hate it when the manufacturer is right? I love the glamour shots at the end.
It’s now a mosaic piece, haha. Thanks
i have done that before on projects! she blew up real good! fab ep
I makes sure to measure twice now, lol. Thanks
Oh my, I wasn’t expecting that… jumped about two inches off my chair! Bet it would have been a great platter with that pretty yellow 😢
Lol, sorry to scare you. We will try to revisit this in the future, thanks
Jim such things always happen - to all of us. Professional or not. Such is life. I am totally feeling with you since I messed up a window color painting big time once. The painting was 70 x 100 cm. I didnt wait over night to let one color dry before I applied the next one. So the colors mixed where they shouldnt have. Guess what? That piece landed in the garbage and I had to start all over again after 2 months of careful work. One wrong decision and all the effort before wasnt useable any longer. But: such lessons need to happen so that we always stay careful and enhance our learning curve. The window colors are also expensive for such a large painting since I need more than 1 bottle per color. Just like with the resin. Those materials are costly but worth the effort when used with attention and care. And the outcome when everything works like it should is always so satisfying. For me thats the motor which makes it worthwhile.
Agreed, I really wanted to save this piece but it was time to give it the 🔨🔨 and move one with my life, lol. Thanks
If you needed that big sledge to do the final decoration the resin must have been strong. :P I think i would have done the same thing you did Jim just some days before. hehe You made my day today because i have spend 14 hours in an airport here for sending my fiance back home to pick up some more bugs for me when i come after during the summer. I came home and saw the video and i could smile a little bit again. :) Better luck next video. Greetings Hans Olav
Thanks Hans, it got what it deserved 🔨
This was educational for me - thanks. Love the send off :D
Thanks 🔨🔨🔨
Boy Jim AAA for effort and patience! I am like you, I love to problem solve and rarely thrash a piece. I must say your method of ending the bowl from hell made me chuckle! Thanks for your honesty and perseverance! Stay well.
Lol, thanks 🔨🔨🔨
I was hoping that this was the video I was waiting for. So sorry that you couldn’t salvage it. Still a great video.
Thanks 🙏
Thanks for sharing this video. you learn a lot more from failures then successes and i hope lots of people learned :)
Your not alone, thanks
Gosh I'm sorry you couldn't save it Jim! You will have to do something else with that Lemon Glitter. The ending was fabulous tm😂😂😂
It got the 🔨, lol. Thanks
What can you do? When one dream is shattered, an other will come around!! You did go, above and beyond, attempting that rescue!!
I gave it my best shot, but in the end got the 🔨🔨 Thanks
A wise man ones told me: It's never to late to give up. Keep the good work up. Sorry you couldn't save the piece, but it became a good video.
Thanks for that!
Dang! You surprised me, that was a shock! Thanks for "telling" us this story of the Lemon Platter that Couldn't.
Lol, thanks 🙏
Yeah....that "blowed up real good!". Bummer. You're so right Jim; some pieces just insist on being firewood.
Agreed! Thanks
I know what you mean about some pieces not wanting to be finished. I started a bowl 6 months ago and just wasn't feeling it. Paduke, red dust over everything, put it aside. Needed a gift for someone and didn't have anything I wanted to turn and give away so I bit my lip and put the bowl on and finished it. Turned out beautiful and they loved it when I presented it to them. Sometime you just have to fight through it.
Some days are a real battle, lol. Thanks 🙏
it happens buddy .chop it up in to little pc .re cast .re turn and call it the bummer bowl .great video my friend from doug
No saving any of the pieces, thanks
I hear you buddy I don't blame you at all have a great weekend my friend
You really tried to make it work jim admire your patience
Thanks 🙏
I like to mount my failed projects on the wall of my wood shop, as a sort of anti-trophy, to remind me not to make the same mistake again. But a sledgehammer sounds good too. My current project is a Valentine’s Day bowl, with a resin heart on the bottom. I have already screwed it up twice, but I am still trying to rescue it. Why? 2 reasons! It’s now February 11 - not enough time to start a new one, and maybe the bigger reason to keep trying… I’ve been videotaping the whole project, and I don’t want to waste all that footage!
I totally get what your saying, but at some point ya just got to call it! Good luck! Thanks
Oh this killed me! I was so hopeful you could save it, but it was clearly an obstinate piece. On the other hand I was thoroughly impressed by how it behaved under the persuasion of a splittin' maul wielded by an expert hand. A bittersweet ending. Thanks for showing us. (And thanks for putting the degrees in Fahrenheit for those of us who are Celsius illiterate. 😂)
It blew up really good, lol. Thanks
Thank you for the honesty. If it helps it is a great learning experience Keep Turning
Thanks for watching
Thanks for showing us you make mistakes and show them to us... your the best
Thanks for watching!
Oh man… I was really hoping you could save it 😞. Admire your perseverance.
Thanks 😊
I salute your effort!! Thank you for sharing the learning experience.
Thanks for watching!
I appreciate you sending me the link to this video Jim. I can see through you throwing this one out. I, on the other hand would have experimented a little bit more by just leaving it for a year or 2 just to see if it would ever stop weeping.. lol.. anyway I'm moving on to the next video
Thanks Wayne, I pretty much had to cut my losses and move one. Jim
a valiant effort at rescuing the platter! I laughed at the hammer, I hope that was cathartic at the very least!
It felt good to show this platter who the boss is, haha. 🔨💪🏻🔨
Wow! ☹️ Would have enjoyed a much different turn out. But the forces that be will interfere and make for the outcome to be a successful one. You do excellent work as we've all seen & witnessed. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks for watching!
@@SpragueWoodturning you bet! 😁
A very fitting send-off, Jim! Actually, your pile of pieces, at the end of the video, could be stuck together, to provide a monument for gnarly pieces which refuse to go right: It looks really good! Artwork!
Inukshuk possibly, lol. Thanks
Dam! I was hoping to see either a win, or as a backup, hanging over the work bench. However, I totally emphasize with the sledgehammer!!! Though....wish you could have found a shooting range to use it as target practice! I appreciate you sharing this journey with us, lots of hidden lessons there!
The range will be next time 😜😜 thanks!
@@SpragueWoodturning that would be fun!
Every day is a school day and sticking with something like this can only be a learning experience - and you wont make the same mistake twice. I thought you would have thrown it in a corner until next year and see how it was.... but I bet you felt good swinging the hammer.
I haven’t smashed anything in a while so yes, it felt good, haha. Thanks
LOL - got a really good laugh at the send off. Soooo sorry it didnt work out. I was really wishing for a good come back story. I am the same way. I would rather try to fix and save then just chuck and move on. Thanks for sharing and take care :)
It got what it deserved, haha. Thanks
Jim atleast you tried 👏 ,got to tell ya your a good man to try to save it. But the pics at the end 🤣
It’s a mosaic piece now, haha. Thanks
All the pieces on the turntable...so sad! When life gives you lemon glitter resin, I guess you get lemonade? RIP, walnut, RIP. 🎺🎺🎺
It now a mosaic piece, lol. Thanks
I'm sorry it didn't work out but it's great to see you not give up.
Thanks 😊
I want to cry. You tried so hard.
Just chalk it up to a learning experience, lol. Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing a failure. Its nice to see that everything doesn't work perfectly every time for others too
You bet, thanks for watching!
I enjoyed seeing you really try to save this piece. I really like your resin work.
Thanks 😊
😂 love the send off 😊
Thanks 🔨🔨🔨
You are not alone in wanting to throw away difficult pieces. I work with clay and sometimes there are pieces that just fight you at ever step.
Get the hammer, lol. 🔨🔨🔨 thanks