Barry N. Turner wrote:
A bowl with walls over an inch thick is going to take a
long time to season. The tenon and bowl may have distorted some, but its
just not dry enough to have distorted a lot. There is no visible distortion
yet.

Roughed out bowls dry surprisingly quickly because there is so much end
grain exposed. In fact I usually slow down the drying by putting endseal
on the areas where end grain has been cut right across.

It won't take a lot of distortion for the chuck to be unable to seat
properly on the tenon.

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Derek Andrews, woodturner

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