Box roughed out

You know the story about Edison? "I have not failed -- I've discovered 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb." So a number of lessons from this. First, I need to make it larger if it is going to be a canister that has any internal volume, because I lose a lot of wood in the process. Second, I sanded the layers before gluing them. I discovered that this causes gaps, especially on the outside, which means I have to rough it more deeply on the outside, losing more volume. Next time, I will plane the wood -- before I cut it, because the rounds are too small for the planer. At this stage, I moved from a roughing gouge to a bowl gouge to shape the outside. I wanted it to be egg-shaped -- another reason for making it larger at the start. I held the gouge at a slightly bad angle and gouged a chunk out. This is scary -- I wear a full face helmet because a bad gouge can cause the whole thing to go flying. Also, I have to rough out still more of the exterior to get beyond the gouge. Then I use a parting tool to create the tenon you see on the lid, then I part the lid entirely. Next step, which I have begun, is to begin to carve out the mortise on the box, then deepen it. Then I need to jam the box and top together and lathe it between centers again to get the top and bottom to match. Then sand and finish. I learned from watching a video that I need to sand with minimal pressure with the rougher grades of sandpaper in order to prevent tiny scratches that finer grades of sandpaper won't remove.