On Tue, 20 May 2008 06:05:26 -0700 (PDT), tww wrote:

This has never been a problem in the past since I only used mineral or
walnut oil for the most part but when you put shellac on an unfinished
bowl you have to put the wet bowl some place to let it dry. If you
put it on newspaper when it is dry you will probably have a bowl with
newspaper stuck to the bottom. I assume a wet bowl put on a board
would end up with a defective bottom as well.

I thought about taking a 1" board and pounding nails through it and
turning it upside down so the wet bowls would sit on a bed of nails
and only have very small places where the finish would not dry right
away.

How do the people in this group dry things without leaving defective
places on the bottom?

Same here, I guess that's how most of us do it..

I have a small (24" x 24") table that's for "work in progress" and usually has a
few pieces with Danish oil on either the inside or outside/bottom..
I spread paper towels over it to catch and excess and keep it from pooling..
Never had the toweling stick to the finish, but that might just be the
properties of the Danish oil..

Also, I usually oil the bottom of the piece on the lathe, while it's on the
vacuum chuck.. I let it soak in for a few minutes and then wipe off the excess,
then it goes "bottoms up" on the paper towels..
When the oil sets, I'll either re-oil it or flip it over and oil the inside..


mac

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