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- From: djt@merlin.caltech.edu (David Thompson)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Turning wet wood
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:51 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- Turning wet wood:
-
- I have turned a couple of bowls out of green oak and cedar. The
- process I used to dry them without cracking (and the knots didn't fall out,
- either) was to turn them roughly to size, then stuff them full of the wet
- shavings, and pack it in more shavings in two brown-paper grocery bags. I let
- this sit for about 6 weeks undisturbed (until the shavings dry out), then
- finish the turnings on the now-mostly dry wood. You could probably turn them
- finished when green, and go through a similar gradual drying process to dry
- them out, but the wood will probably warp a bit. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is
- sometimes used to replace the water in the green wood, preventing shrinking/
- cracking, but I have not tried this.
-
- Good Luck - Dave.
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