"Dave in Fairfax" wrote in message
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Dan Bollinger wrote:
I hear what you are saying and agree with all your points. I hope
someone
picks up this banner and runs with it. Dan

It would/wood be nice if that were to happen, but it seems a
daunting task. It's too bad that Leif has problems turning d/t
back problems, the slo-mo lunges seem to help my back. PEG OTOH,
hasn't done much for wood when I've used it. The wood didn't
crack while it was submerged, but it cracked shortly after
turning. I did try the permutation of LDD when I first started
and found that the type of LDD didn't matter as much as the ration
of LDD:water. As I remember, The cheaper, Crystal/Octagon stuff
worked as well as the Costco stuff did, but if you went beyond 1:3
soap:water it stopped working acceptably, and that 1:1 was notably
better. Most of the problems reported were related to failure to
follow directions if I recall. Stuff like, I wiped it on and it
didn't work. Or I put one part soap in a zillion parts water and
it didn't work. The other popular one was i soaked it and turned
it then I let it dry and it cracked. i don't remember any
complaints when the wood was soaked in the proper solution, turned
and finished immediately. That also is my finding. wipe the LDD
off the wood, turn it to final thickness and apply finish w/o
allowing ti to dry beforehand.

Good luck,
Dave in Fairfax

Oh, thank you, thank you, Dave! Be still my quivering heart! A
reproducible result! Come on, boys! Out of the woodwork with you and stand
proud and tall and triumphant with your own stories of the success of LDD.

In the beginning, there was the void and from the void anquished cries of
woodturners were heard. The Great Woodturner heard their cries and from
out of the void appeared "Kirkland Brand LDD." The turners were still in the
throes of despair, as the only instructions on the container had to do with
washing dishes -- in the sink, no less!! The Great Woodturner took pity on
them and called up one of their number on the Mountain and imparted the
secret to St. Ron of Kent., who then descended the mountain and dictated the
instructions to his acolyte Leif (Sainthood Application: Pending) who
proceeded through magickal means to transmit the Word in "The World-famous
Treatise on LDD" to the World of Woodturners. But there were scoffers and
naysayers about this Potion and they continued to spread doubt and deceit
about its miraculous powers over wood. Scientific proof, they cried!
Reproducible results they intoned! Quietly, with no fanfare, woodturners
began to accept the Way of LDD, content only in the knowledge that they no
longer had to deal with the vagaries of wood and the various voodoo ways of
readying it for sacrifice in boiling waters, WD40,microwaves, bagging,
baking, roasting, freezing, anti-freezing and *GASP!* airdrying for twenty
years! The quality of Faith in LDD was in the air and some seized upon it
as a drowning man might a life preserver! Slowly the membership grew
despite persecution by the Science Inquisitors. Percolating through the
group was a desire for a new prophet to appear and provide the proofs
demanded of LDD and to still these harpies of the God of Science. And so
they wait for the arrival of the new prophet and view with despair the
latest in wood treatments: diesel fuel! May the Great Woodturner have
mercy on their abused wood! This is an cautionary tale, and its ending is
yet to be writ!*G*

Leif