So this guy now has an orange, Borg Orange, five gallon bucket of a
bunch of roughed to round, fresh cut, apricot, submerged in an orange,
Costco Orange, 50-50 solution of water and Kirkland “Fresh Citrus
Scented Ultra Concentrated Dish Liquid, Anti-Bacterial Hand Soap, More
Gentle on Hands, Tough On Grease”. From The Wood Turners Catalog
2004/2005 he’s read
“Probably the best of all the fruitwoods, apricot . . .” and that a 10
inch long
8 inch in diameter half “log” of it is about 1.75 board feet, weighing
about 10 pounds , which, at $1.99 per pound, costs about twenty bucks,
which comes to $11 and change per BF. This apricot must be very special
wood ‘cause, per BF, it’s more expensive than kiln dried S4S figured
maple, claro walnut, flame birch, mahogany, cherry or quarter sawn white
oak and it’s green.

As suggested, this stuff turns nicely green, at least the piece that was
done before the LDD immersion.

Now that this guy has committed some nice stuff to an LDD bath, the
thought has occured to him that LDD could be the wood turners’ version
of a snipe hunt, the mechanics’ left handed open end wrench and the
whamadilly that grinds smoke. The $10 and change investment in CostCo’s
house brand liguid dishwahsing soap and the $3.50 bucket will be nothing
compared to the price to replace the apricot pieces should that be the
case.

Nah - no woodworker would do that to another woodworker.

Anyway - have a look. This stuff’s interesting

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning7.html

Anyone have the drying schedule for LDD treated turnings?

charlie b