If you, as I, have an endless supply of wood on its way from forest to the
furnace, let the failures fulfill their original purpose and warm you. I
can see no reason in the world for risking damage to your equipment and
injury to yourself for the sake of an ordinary, easily replaceable piece of
firewood. If it's a burl or a great gnarly, proceed with caution.

Sometimes we just don't get 'round to roughing out a log until it's too far
gone. Those are the breaks. Next year will bring more, so just rough as
much as you can, and don't bother trying to save what you can't. Percentage
is with roughing and storing the bowl, not the wood.

I've spent the last couple of weeks turning wood I split for the furnace two
years ago, because I wanted to do some small stuff. That, and some short
pieces of 4/4 stock kicking around the workshop can do some neat items. If
I could post to abpw, I would, but if you'd like some suggestions - and this
post actually gets out, let me know, and I'll add a page to my personal.

"Denis Marier" wrote in message
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I have accumulated anchor sealed blanks that have cracked during drying.
Also after finishing dried (6-12 months) blanks cracks started to
developed.
I still have a several cracked blanks. I did not discard any of these
yet.
I came to the conclusion that the only thing to do with these is to burn
them. Before throwing them in the wood stove I tough I ask for comments.
What I have learned from this is either its the nature of the beast or I
need a controlled environment for drying the blanks properly.