thanks for all the advice.
actually, 4 of the pieces that i baked for 2 hours at about 200 degrees F
have survived with no cracks.
three pieces checked, but i have rough turned them and anchor sealed them
again.
one piece that i nuked in a home microwave for 12 minutes and then baked as
above has survived with no cracks.
another piece treated exactly the same checked badly and i turned it into a
goblet, gave it various coats of wax and a
coat of food-safe sealer....hope it won't crack too badly in the future.
another piece i rough turned after nuking several times...it started
checking, so i stopped the nuking process and rough
turned it and then continued nuking...probably too much cause the checks did
get a little bigger. so i finished turning it
and waxed it....looks pretty good despite the checks which seem to have
stopped. apparently sometimes nuking works
and sometimes it doesn't and it doesn't seem to be size dependent....same
with baking it and nuking combinations.
i don't have a moisture meter to see what's going on and the only weight
scale i have works poorly in the bathroom...therefore
is useless for what i need. so i only have one piece of wood that i am
still nuking....it was glued to a piece of kiln dried walnut, rough
turned on the outside (it's going to be a bowl), and i've been nuking it for
about a minute (average) once or twice per day with almost
no checking. i intend to keep nuking it for another week like that before i
finish turning it.
wish me luck and i sure wish i had been storing more anchor sealed wood over
the years so i would have more wood to turn.
rich
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:25:31 +0000, res055a5 wrote:
i just received a bunch of maple and cherry that eventually plan on
turning. I'm experimenting in the meantime on coating the ends with
anchor
seal and then microwaving a piece or two. i'm also trying out my
kitchen
oven on another
piece.
anyone ever tried this before? results? rich
By now the piece in the kitchen oven has long ago been relegated to the
scrap pile. Possibly also the piece in the microwave.
What causes cracking is uneven drying ... where the inside dries much
slower than the outside. The advice to search the archives for this
newsgroup is the best you will ever get as there are several ways to speed
up this process with many vocal advocates for each. I nuke pen blanks,
boil rough-turned hollow pieces and LDD especially select bark-on wood.
Anchorseal (or other similar-in-function products) are intended for
preventing cracks during slow drying. I can't store all of my wood indoors
and not all of what I can store indoors will fit in either my boiling pot,
my LDD bin, my microwave or my freezer. For everything else, I use
Anchorseal type products and stack them neatly outdoors.
Bill
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