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- From: EPLUS17@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans)
- Subject: Re: fresh spalded sugar maple -- turn green, or dry first??
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:30:05 GMT
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- In article <C1E241.GDq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- bruce@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Krueger) writes:
-
- >ok, the postings on lathes and the extensive speculation re the unknown
- >shoulda-been-maple got me to wondrin'...
- >
- >I've got a pile (rough guess, 5-800 lbs.) of five green sections of a
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- > I'm wondering whether to let the wood
- >dry first (for how many years/decades), and if so, should I paint/wax/
- >varnish the ends to prevent, or at least retard, checking, or isn't this
- >as much of a problem with sugar maple sections as it would be with some
- >of the other hardwoods I have experience with (oak, hickory,...)??
- >
- I got some green locust when the Valentines ice storm a couple
- of years back claimed a neighbor's tree. I turned about a dozen
- 10-12" blanks immediately and saved several 6' long logs for later.
- I'm no expert on the lathe, and my taste runs toward the clunky...
- my bowls had wall thicknesses of about 1/2". Two years later, they
- are no longer round. A few months ago, I chopped one of my logs
- into blanks and found them riddled with very fine cracks. Five
- tries on the lathe and nothing to show for it but shavings and
- shattered, partially turned bowls. If it was me, I would turn
- them green.
-
- ..Richard E+17
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