Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who put the fine and fine woodworking. Mark Matt and Shannon.

Hey everybody, it's Wood Talk number 233

for April 10, 2015, and it's a weekend edition of Wood Talk.

So on today's show we're talking about closed calls and how you get over them,

if you get over them.

And some people never do.

So let's just jump right into it.

It was an email that

spurred this conversation. He says, I was wondering

if you have all had a scare in the shop

that had you questioning if you really know what you're doing or not.

I felt this way on a few occasions, mostly after bowls exploding at the lathe and it's difficult

to get back in there for a bit and after a while it calms down. I'm doing a great job today.

I've been turning for a while nearly all self-taught aside from a

pen class that was my entry into this rabbit hole. Then the other day I got a nasty catch and the

spinning hunk of wood just likes to get sucked, just likes to suck in your hand like a vacuum,

barely a scrape on my hand, but I question whether I should continue.

Do you guys have any of these experiences or suggestions for shaking it off.

So a lot of little things we could talk about here, so I guess let's go around the room,

so to speak.

Trying to think for me, I had these early on. I can remember a couple of specific events people

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