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Wonder what happens with bag of coffee beans on the lathe? Let’s find out! For starters, no project has ever smelled so good! BUY IT: When I began woodturning the coffee beans into a coffee mug I had no idea what to expect. I just wanted to do a little something different. Would it even hold together? Would I find air pockets all over given all the small cracks and crevices between and inside the coffee beans? Which would make the piece too weak to cut into anything of use. This was more of a long shot experiment than a potentially successful project. I did not have high hopes for this to turn out well. You might have noticed I ran my PSI up to 80 instead of the usual 60 PSI in the pressure chamber given all of the small places for air to hide. I have a strong feeling this helped because in certain spots the walls of tumbler were sanded down thinner than the width of a coffee bean. Impossible to do without the cup co