"Dave in Fairfax" wrote in message
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George wrote:
How about using the known properties of the wood to your advantage?
snippage
try whatever else you think works.
more snippage
With the really squirrelly stuff, you might want to have more patience
and
thickness if you want circular. Odd grain angles make for strange
warps.

I was responding to the OPs' question of "What's LDD"? Which I'd
recommended due to his problems having cut some wood to turning
blank size and then let it sit, wherein it cracked. Had he cut it
fresh and then had a choice of ways to deal with it, the
conversation might have gone elsewhere. Anchorseal was
recommended, most anything but leaving it to crack as it dried. I
make my blanks from a variety of different angles and agree with
your feelings about odd angles and strange warps, between that and
natural edges a lot of fun can be had, but that doesn't really
apply to his question.


Uh, it was meant to answer the impatience you indicated with wood in your
post. Which is why I quoted it, not the original.

Wood is "fresh" as long as it is above the EMC. It is "green" above the
FSP. Through it all, it is wood, and responds to proper care predictably.

My recommendation is knowledge, which is much more likely to produce
consistent success than chickens, dishwater or Stolichnaya....