Used to be a candle holder piece of worm-eaten log good enough to practice some wood turning.
This might turn out to be a little wooden cup. I was trying to get in deep with just a spindle gouge and a scraper.
The trick was to get a wall thickness of about 2mm. I felt along the inside of the cup to get an idea of just how far I might be able to cut without going through the wall.
The shape is complete and maybe a little sanding before the base is released from the the “holy log”
Oh, sure there are the worm holes in the thing, but it has character! As someone once said: “Seen from up close, many aspects of nature, humans and evolution are in fact chaotic, superfluous and often “adjusted” by strokes of luck. But this, paradoxically, is great news. We tend to think that the imperfections that fill the biological world are only a side effect, a cost to be borne in order to achieve a higher goal. On the other hand, they have a positive value and contain masses of creativity, which is the driver of evolution itself.”
