I leave the tenon on the bottom until I am done finishing.

Then I remount the bowl, hit the finish with fine steel wool, then wax
it and spin it at high speed to buff.

After that, i turn off the tenon,, sand it, sign it, and finish it. I
just turn the bowl upside down to let the finish dry. On natural edge
bowls, I set them on a plastic container such as a coffee can.

When I have to have a wet bottom (on the bowls mind you) I use the
press on gang nail plates that you get at the hardware store. I got
mine from a truss company.


OLd Guy



On May 20, 8:05*am, 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?