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Henry St.Pierre
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any health hazards with ebonizied oak bowls
"cad" wrote in news:1165410030.547015.293430@
16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com:
I have a dozen or so spalted red oak blanks I harvested and waxed about
a 9 mts ago. I notice now that anywhere there is wax on them, it is
turning jet black underneath the wax layer.
Are they ebonizing on their own?
cad
handturnedbowls.biz
wrote:
When you ebonize wood, you are working with the tanins that naturally
occur in wood. I doubt it's any more or less harmful than the wood was
to begin with.
FYI, the steel wool is a help with wood with fewer tanins like maple,
oak will ebonize without it. I'd love to see a pic of the finished
product, I've not yet gotten around to ebonizing. I do have a really
bad article on it here somewhere.
Spalt.
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