re: Final turning the inside, more patching

Yeah. As I was turning and got down to a quarter, I could hear the bowl flexing, but it wasn’t a “singing” sound, it was more flat, which convinced me there was a crack I wasn’t seeing. Sure enough…

Anyway, this bowl will never “ring like a bell,” like I had hoped. Too many cracks and too much resin.

Tom, the laser-guided tool is pretty handy if you want to go thinner than a quarter. Thicker than that, I can get by with a caliper or my fingers judging the thickness, but under a quarter, almost every bowl I’ve made will start flexing as the tool touches it, and that’s where I find the laser super-handy. Also for going across the bottom of the bowl, I can more reliably get a flat and level bottom using the laser.