Turning Green

Trifern, there is a way to season wood (this sort of size range). You do it in a microwave oven, preferably not the one your wife uses for cooking. If you are interested I will send you the recipe, whoops the instructions.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Trifern,

Have had pretty good luck just skipping the alcohol and wrapping the roughed blank in 6-8 layers of newspaper. After a month or so, re-wrap with new newspaper and put on back on the shelf for another month or so. Depending on the thickness of the walls/bottom, you may have to leave it dry even longer. Recently made a 12” dia. maple salad bowl and it was still wet at the wall/bottom transition after 4 months. I have read where some turners pack the hollowed out bowl with shavings to stabilize the drying process. I don’t know if it helps because I haven’t had enough experience with that procedure.

Lew

Trifern,
Now you are in trouble. Ever roadside log or downed tree will become a fascination. It’s pretty addictive, this urban foraging…
Here is a link to a great author, Howard Lewin – with a lot of information on the subject, including a pitch about letting nature take it’s course in the final shaping of the bowls. http://www.customwooddesign.com/turninggreenwood-1.html

Another great resource is a LJ member Steve Russell, who is a professional bowl turner and an avid teacher with a very informative monthly newsletter and a website chock full of freebies and other goodies.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

looking good trifern! don’t know much about turning but I’ll be interested in what other have to say. thanks for the post.

Glad to see you have had a chance to get at that blistered Maple. You have a very nice shaped bowl. Can’t wait to see the end results. I ordered a Woodcut bowl saver so I dont all mine onto the shop floor. You may have to come up one night and see how it works.

Grumpy, send me your recipe. I would be interested in reading it.

Douglas, very interesting links and articles. I really appreciate your help and information.

Terry, send me an email or call me. I would love to see your new toy in action. I have been curious to see how the coring tools work. I would also like to see your laser hollower work as well.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Hey Tri, I just now saw your new quest. I’ve turned green before but never did anything to it, except a couple bowls I put them in some Polycryl, a product you can get from Woodcraft Magazine, it’s supposed to fill the dead cells and harden them. It works, but too darn expensive. Good luck.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Hi Joe , I followed your link from one of your newest turnings to here …have you ever completed this bowl and posted it ?

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Hey Dusty, it was Blistered Bottom.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Birth Mark was also turned using this process.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Blistered Bottom is magnificient !!

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

thanks for this… been favorited.

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