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2nd turn/Final turn/Finish turn HF

Sam Fleisher

Sam Fleisher

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Whatever you want to call it.

Are the steps the same as green turned bowls? 3/4 inch or so thick depending on size and coat the outside with anchor seal? Anchor seal on the inside too?

Or is the second time on the lathe more for just sanding? And you should have it almost to your final wall thickness?
 
First turning green is rough shaping with walls ~10% thickness of the diameter. Then paint with Anchor Seal (especially on end grain both inside and out) or use other preferred method of slowing drying process for ~6mon -1yr depending on your area conditions (or multiple years if you have more drying inventory than you need like some of us :)

After dry (measured by no longer losing weight if you care to measure instead of just waiting a long time) then you final turn. Provided you’ve left sufficient thickness you can get a circle of the wall thickness you want circumscribed within the now warped ~10% thickness you left.
 
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