I bought my first lathe at an estate auction and the blank for this bowl was already on the lathe in a faceplate, so I vowed to finish it. Now, it’s referred to as “the dead guy’s bowl”… The blank he had mounted wasn’t glued together very well, as you can see from the wide crack in the walnut pieces on the side, and the bottom of the bowl is a thin piece of veneered plywood that he put on in three pieces, without gluing the seam.