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  1. Rip Littig

    Checking/cracking while twice turning bowls

    I've been having a significant problem with checking and cracking while twice turning bowls of late. I dry rough turned bowls in my furnace room which now in the Northeast is warm and very dry. I've been placing the wet bowls in paper bags (thanks Leo) and drying them on wire shelves. This seems...
  2. Nick Valenza

    Swamp Maple Tree Hit by lighting last night

    A co-worker of mine had a swamp maple tree hit by lightning last night. He offered to let me have the trunk/larger branches. It had three main trunks split a few feet off the ground. Two of them split and fell to the ground. No damage, none hurt. I read in a book recently that the proper...
  3. Cliff De Witt

    Drying Green Bowls.

    I know that this cannot be a new idea however. Saturday I got to spend the day in the shop turning green bowls to rough shape for drying. I got about 6 done but have a whole wheelbarrow of fresh wood to shape, so I decided to wait until I had a full bag in order to pack them up. Well as...
  4. C

    How to Dry a Maple Burl??

    I will shortly be gifted with a very nice maple burl from a limb that the owner wants to remove. How should I best treat it for drying to avoid cracking, checking, and otherwise making it less than useful? The limb above and below the burl is about 8" to 9" in diameter and I expect to see...
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