On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:07:36 -0500, Prometheus wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:58:40 -0400, Bruce Bowler
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:27:16 -0500, Prometheus put fingers to keyboard and
said:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:21:24 -0400, "George" George@least wrote:

You have to plan ahead, no doubt. For instance, if working from green to
get something which demands a precision fit, you have to turn, dry, turn.
With the pith in, survival nods toward thin, which isn't really compatable
with TDT,

Sorry, but what does TDT stand for?

Turn, Dry, Turn

Got ya. The piece I finished up tonight is going to have a lid made
of a contrasting wood, so I just turned it really thin (about
1/4"-3/16" throughout, and as thin as I dared in the area with the
pith) and finished it. Was starting to have some minor cracking, but
I spun that sucker fast and hard, while sanding it until it was close
to smoking, so I'm hoping that that minor cracking will be all that
happens- if I'm lucky, it'll just be visual interest for the piece.

I've done at least a hundred boxes, but all out of dry or seasoned wood... now
that I'm turning wet wood, I'm having to learn all over again!

The problem with turning thin is that though it minimizes cracking, it
encourages warping... IMO, warping is cool in bowls but not in boxes, because
the lid never seems to warp in the same direction..

My best solution so far is to turn the box and lid thin, except the box opening
and the part of the lid that fits in the box.. I leave a tenon on the end of
each and enough wood there to true them up when they're dry.. (I hope, they're
still drying)

I have a bunch of very fancy kindling from my first batch of boxes turned to
about final fit green and dried.. lol


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