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Very nice, it came out great. I realy like that wood.

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Spectacular is the exact word for this!

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Wow, and the wood is excellent too!

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Beautiful wood selection and nice bowl form.

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Great work!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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How long did you soak it in the alcohol before letting it dry? Awesome work!

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Beautiful bowl, you did a very nice turn

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Joe, that looks excellent. Keep it up. I’m learning from you now.

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Great bowl. I haven’t done any green turning (yet), so I will be the first to ask: why soak in denatured alcohol?

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I love the grain. Now I have to look up what turning green means.

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trifern, I am new to turning and would be interseted in learning the drying method you used ,and the bowl really came out beautiful.

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Another beauty there, Joe. Thanks also for turning us onto the DNA drying.
There are some good links out there…

http://www.woodcentral.com/articles/turning/articles_473.shtml

http://www.wnywoodturners.com/articles/alcodrying/alcodrying.htm

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Wow, I think the pictures look great. If it looks better in real life it must really be something.

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Nice one Joe.

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Thanks for all the kind remarks. I appreciate them all.

This is my blog on the turning green process. I was turned on to the process from some very skilled wood turners from the turning club I recently joined. I was told that it is the way to go. My theory is that that it works similar to the brining process for meat and poultry. I think the denatured alcohol replaces the water in the wood. SInce alcohol evaporates faster than water, it speeds up the drying process. But I’m not a chemist, just an ametuer turner and it has worked so far.

This is some of the blister maple I scored a few weeks ago.

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Beautiful Bowl. Great job.

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Nice informative links, Douglas. They certainly explain the process of drying with denatured alcohol well.

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spectacular! The only piece of equipment that I don’t have and want is a lathe. Right now I don’t know where I would shoe horn it in. When I do I might be looking for some advice.

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wonderful! that is some extravagant grain!

all your projects are splendid very beautiful work

-- jeanmarc manosque france

Absolutely gorgeous wood and turning job !!!

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