Sounds like the 'Curse of the China Cup'. Everyone who makes a cup along these lines ends up with a major collapse............it's a Brycian thing..........

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...