Here are a couple of links that may help. Seems there are as many ways
to dry without cracking as there are turners, but boiling per Steven
Russell's protocol seems to work best statistically.
http://www.woodturners.org/tech_tips...es/boiling.pdf
http://www.woodturningonline.com/Tur...es.html#drying
http://www.woodcentral.com/cgi-bin/r...cles_124.shtml
Never did find the original article, perhaps you'll have better luck.
His company is called Eurowood Werks.