If it is still wet, turn it roughly to size.
let it dry in a bed of saw dust, then finish turning it.
It should be fine, and not check.
The saw dust sucks out the moisture but also prevents checking since it
equalizes the outer wood. When air drying the outer dries to fast..
if it's a vase make sure you stuff saw dust inside, and change it weekly
and rotate it. a couple of weeks and you can finish turn it.

On 8/2/2011 3:33 AM, Paul wrote:
I bought another block of Paduk at Rocklers today, and it just had the
ends covered in wax. Just wondering how long to let it just sit to
slowly dry out and stabilize? Can't remember if I asked this question
before, so apologize if this is a repeat. Thanks.