"RonB" wrote in message
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Suck it up and turn another one. I have made a couple of these from Maple
and Walnut. It is hard to take that first strike knowing the result.
But
they are, at the end of the day, a tool and they end up looking kinda beat
up.

40 years isn't bad.


PEG 1000.

In a vat for a few months in summer heat and you'll be better'n new, because
you'll also have a softened surface to eat up the vibration before it gets
to your elbow. I make all mine that way, and appreciate it after carving
two or three days in a row.