Fair Game
I had a clever idea: make a bowl for the State Fair and use it to raise money for Chapel Hill Woodturners. I had no idea it would take six glue-up sessions.
The Intervention
I was tight with the spindle roughing gouge and the skew. Cliff Greaves believed I should see other tools. What began as an intervention into my limited woodturning vocabulary became years of mentorship, sharpening lessons, stubborn declarations about bowls—and, somewhere along the way, family.