On Mar 10, 3:54*pm, mac davis wrote:
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:18:58 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Wally Dickerman was the person to first provide this cure for cracked
bowls. He recommended 50-50 white glue and water. I had my doubts
about the cure, but Wally has been turning three or four times as long
as I have, do I tried it on a 15 inch rough turned salad bowl that I
had planned it as a gift for a friend who had purchased a new home. I
had to purchase two gallons of white glue and put it with two gallons
of water. I soaked the bowl for a couple of days and took it out. The
crack was still open. I said to myself, Wally it didn't work. I threw
the bowl onto a pile of wood in the yard, where it was rained on for a
couple of or more. About a week later, I walked past the bowl and
noticed that the crack (which had been about 3/8" at the rim) had
completely closed up. I put it in the shed to dry before final
turning. The crack never opened up again. The friend is still using
the salad bowl (been about four years now) and it only has a fine line
where the crack had been. Just my experience.

Fred... When you dried and turned the bowl, was the wood normal, or glue
impregnated?

Just thinking back to some of my LDD experiments and trying to turn soft,
colored bowls that never went back to natural color of texture..

mac

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Hello Mac,

I don't recall any discoloring of the wood. It was a nice maple bowl.
It final turned easily with no sign if the glue.

Fred Holder
http://www.morewoodturning.net