Roger Chandler
04-17-2012, 12:50 PM
I decided I had to go ahead and turn a new vase form for the lady who commissioned the piece from SJPT wood........see thread:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?185016-The-lady-requested-gnarly-roughout&highlight=
On this new form .........it had worms.........several........they are now EVICTED......and since this was a branch piece of wood with the pith in it still [no way around using it] I decided to saturate the inside bottom of the form where the pith is with thin CA glue.........just to try to prevent any cracking.........also put some CA glue in the tenon area, because the wood had already started to crack there as well.
I let the glue dry, then gave it a shot of accelerator just for good measure and after a few minutes, I put it in the DNA overnight.........took it out about 15 minutes ago and wrapped it in paper, after giving the cracks at the tenon area a little more glue and accelerator...........
Some of you more experienced turners can help me here............since this is 350 year old white oak, that wants to crack if you look at it .....:eek:......is there anything else I can do to try to have this one turn out right?
I have it bagged up now, and will weigh it till it stops loosing weight...........
The other one...........I just could not bring myself to give someone else a form that I myself would be disappointed in........even though she said she was not looking for something perfect and liked knots, gaps in the wood, etc.............that other one was too far gone in my opinion.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?185016-The-lady-requested-gnarly-roughout&highlight=
On this new form .........it had worms.........several........they are now EVICTED......and since this was a branch piece of wood with the pith in it still [no way around using it] I decided to saturate the inside bottom of the form where the pith is with thin CA glue.........just to try to prevent any cracking.........also put some CA glue in the tenon area, because the wood had already started to crack there as well.
I let the glue dry, then gave it a shot of accelerator just for good measure and after a few minutes, I put it in the DNA overnight.........took it out about 15 minutes ago and wrapped it in paper, after giving the cracks at the tenon area a little more glue and accelerator...........
Some of you more experienced turners can help me here............since this is 350 year old white oak, that wants to crack if you look at it .....:eek:......is there anything else I can do to try to have this one turn out right?
I have it bagged up now, and will weigh it till it stops loosing weight...........
The other one...........I just could not bring myself to give someone else a form that I myself would be disappointed in........even though she said she was not looking for something perfect and liked knots, gaps in the wood, etc.............that other one was too far gone in my opinion.