"Ace" wrote
I want to try my luck at bowl turning. I have no lathe experience. I
want
to try Oak and Osage Orange. A guy told me to soak the wood first. Is
this advisable or BS?

Neither is a good wood to learn turning on, try newly cut maple of
most anything else. Pine is doable, but hard to learn on since it
is so soft. When you get the "wet" wood (fresh cut), try soaking
it in LDD, that's probably what he was referring to. DAGS

Dave in Fairfax
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