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- From: richard@TIS.COM (Richard Clark)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Drying wet wood without cracking, HOW?
- Message-ID: <9212301749.AA02472@TIS.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:49:28 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Reply-To: richard@TIS.COM
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems
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- Hi there folks! :)
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- I'm sure this is an easy question for y'all...
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- I live in the woods, and have a lathe, and have found that I can
- find some absolutely beautiful wood just rummaging about my yard. At any
- rate, the wood is always wet, having been rotting away under the leaves
- with fungus and bugs and such. In addition there are lots of knots, the
- more the better. (The type of wood you're told *never* to put on a lathe,
- although it's kinda fun when the worms come zinging out while you're turning.)
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- At any rate, after having turned the wood wet, (it's soo much softer
- and easier. Dogwood turns into a *rock* when it dries.) I stand the work on
- the bench to dry for a week or so. But it inevitably forms cracks and splits
- which I'd rather not have. So the question is: Is there any quick and easy
- way to dry the stuff without having it split? Is there something I can do,
- build, buy, cheaply?
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- Thanks. Your help is greatly appreciated...
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- Richard H. Clark
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