grater to the rescue!

I was trimming a lid a while back, it was really too wet to trim, but I stupidly did it anyway. The trimming tool dug into the lid badly, causing it to fly off the base (I was using the pot body as a chuck), and bounce off the wheel. It was mangled pretty badly, but what the heck, maybe I could save it. I centered it back on the wheel and struggled for a bit trying to start the trim... But it was so mangled that I was struggling to keep the trimming tools (I tried a few different ones to see if I could find something that worked) from doing a repeat gouging of the surface. 

Then I spied the little yellow handled cheese grater and gave it a go.... It  did an awesome job of slowly chewing out the weight of the area that needed to be trimmed .....and doing it in a safe and controlled way. In the picture you can see the small shavings from the grater, and the area I was trimming from the mangled lid.

After I was done doing the rough trim, I was then able to switch over to the regular pear trimmer, and straighten everything out. This next pic is after cleanup, as I was hollowing out the hole in the lid for heat to escape (it's actually going to be a candle lantern, I'll carve out holes in the base after I trim).

Glad I tried it!