My Process of Bowl Drying
Dennis:
Have been following the procedure for drying using DNA, and guess when I really get to turn a green bowl, this is the procedure I will use.
Now a couple of questions>
What do you start with for a blank. Do you use a 4 to 6 inch slice of the log or do you take a much larger piece and half the log getting 2 bowls. I am completely unsure where to start. If you do half the log, how to I do it. Wedge and hammer. I do not have a band saw that will cut that much with only a 93" inch blade.
Looking at your first picture, I saw it as a slice.
Thanks all for the comments that have been coming on this thread.
Ed
A little help with the alcohol bath
GREAT POST! (article) something like this belongs in wood turning design!
..but (and there always is one) I tried to find more information on the alcohol bath and searched for dave smith and alcohol and found nothing!
Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Hank Merkle
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Originally Posted by Dennis Peacock
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4th Pic - Shows the bowl all roughed out on the outside and the inside and still mounted to the Super Nova Chuck. It's now ready to be removed from the chuck.
http://www.beautifulwood.net/assets/.../bd_1567-4.jpg
5th Pic - Here's the freshly turned bowl blank now setting in it's 24 hour home of an alky bath (
Developed by Dave Smith). Notice that it's not fresh alky. Black Walnut and other dark woods will turn the Alky dark like that....so I call it my Alky Tea. :D
http://www.beautifulwood.net/assets/.../bd_1568-5.jpg
6th Pic - Here's the bowl getting ready to come out of the alky bath at about 24 hours later. Don't pay any attention to the color of the outside of the wood. It all turns away when finish turning the bowl.
http://www.beautifulwood.net/assets/.../bd_1574-6.jpg
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great instructional post!!
I have one question, though. What is the container you are using to soak your bowls in?
I use DNA as well to dry bowls, but I don't have a container big enough to put the large bowls in. I double up a couple of trash bags and use that to soak my roughed out bowls.