"Tom Nie" wrote in message
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Another thing would excite George and start some ..... Turn the bowl up
to over 3000rpm and just let it fling the water out for awhile. Sorta like
LDD without the soap.


Compressed air from the inside will eject unbound water with much greater
safety. Won't work well on the small spots of face grain, of course. What
it will do is cut down on the growth of mildew, especially if you use an
occlusive coating on wet wood. I don't use the coating, but the air helps
get a light wood to dry with no mildew spots.

As to drying, if you think of it, you're not gaining more than a week of dry
time. It's the bound water that counts, and since end grain dries ten times
faster than face anyway, and application of mechanical energy won't speed it
up loss of bound water....