On Wed, 4 May 2005 07:39:52 -0400, "George" george@least wrote:


"mac davis" wrote in message
.. .
Now, if you want to see "damage", I learned this weekend that the
dovetailed
recess should be deeper on a green bowl than on a dryer piece... I was
shaping
the inside of the bowl and got a very minor catch, and one side of the
recess
blew out..

Not really. The depth is limited to the wedge. On sapwood, or waterlogged,
or even green, you can run some water-thin CA into the edges of the recess
to help in case of a catch - which, as you learn to peel, will become a
thing of the past.

Just remember to clean up after the glue hardens, so you aren't trying to
grip some dust now consolidated into a lump. As a matter of fact, make sure
you keep all those recesses clean, especially a prefinished. You're not
smashing things, you're just trying to hold them.

I think the problem in my case was that I should have removed more stock BEFORE
I cut the recess.. I was going to reverse chuck it later and work that way, and
my initial recess wasn't really catching all wood, but also some of the bark and
"sub bark" area..


mac

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