Post by admin on Apr 19, 2010 5:25:33 GMT -6
Great article on bowl drying.
I'd been wondering about trying that method. I've boiled cherry but it seemed to boil all the color out of it (instead of turning that rich red it went just to a whitish hue). DNA is something I'll be looking into.
I might add, I've had a few bowls warp quite a lot when they are freshly cut, some of the cherry bowls I've done warped a lot more than the 10% rule would allow for. If I suspect it'll warp a lot, I'll bump it up to 20%. There's a dozen different ways to go about it.
If there's one thing that's constant about woodturning and woodworking in general, it's that there are no constants; no two pieces will behave precisely the same, nor will two bowl blanks yield two bowls that act exactly the same. I've had 'opposing' bowl blanks (Where the block they came out of was simply split with a wedge) turn 'em, and one didn't warp hardly at all but split down the side while the other warped so far I couldn't figure out how it didn't split.
For a fella who's used to highly predictable results, it can be frustrating!
I'd been wondering about trying that method. I've boiled cherry but it seemed to boil all the color out of it (instead of turning that rich red it went just to a whitish hue). DNA is something I'll be looking into.
I might add, I've had a few bowls warp quite a lot when they are freshly cut, some of the cherry bowls I've done warped a lot more than the 10% rule would allow for. If I suspect it'll warp a lot, I'll bump it up to 20%. There's a dozen different ways to go about it.
If there's one thing that's constant about woodturning and woodworking in general, it's that there are no constants; no two pieces will behave precisely the same, nor will two bowl blanks yield two bowls that act exactly the same. I've had 'opposing' bowl blanks (Where the block they came out of was simply split with a wedge) turn 'em, and one didn't warp hardly at all but split down the side while the other warped so far I couldn't figure out how it didn't split.
For a fella who's used to highly predictable results, it can be frustrating!
