On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:22:13 -0400, "Tom Nie" wrote:

Arch,

OK - let me add something I saw at the library at Arrowmont. The Woodturning
Masters Class, I think, by Tony Boase showed a couple times a huge rough
bowl being dried with a heat gun (hair dryer?) from the outside. These were
the famous "masters" at work.

Makes me wonder if one of those infra-red heaters next to the bowl while
turning would help. Get a woodturner's tan if nothing else.

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.

TomNie

Tom.. "spin drying" is fairly common.. I learned it here...

Last spring, when I was turning a lot of very wet pine that had been under the
snow during the winter, it helped a lot..

I'd rough turn it at normal speed, which would already have the shop wall and
ceiling soaked, then turn it up to the highest rpm I thought was safe and let it
fling any left over water out... and LOTS of additional water got flung... (some
early attempts got my wife's wood burning stuff wet and led to re-aiming be
pivoting the lathe)




mac

Please remove splinters before emailing