Ok, tried it on 3 bowls this weekend, after reading your post and studying Ron
Kent's page...

Questions:

Have you used it on soft wood, or only hard woods?


Does the LDD/water combo tint your work?
(with pine and fir, it turned them the same apple yellow as the LDD)

If you finish turn all the color (see above) off when thinning walls, etc., do
you then have to dry it conventionally, or can you still
stain/seal/buff/oil/whatever ?

Was my procedure roughly correct:
Rough turned very green, wet bowls and soaked them in 50/50 LDD over night....

Put them on a drying rack, flipping them occasionally, until dry to the touch..
(Ron's method?)

Mounted on lathe and finish turned and sanded them..

Wet sanded 1st one with mineral oil... didn't seem to pick up the luster that
this process usually does..

Stained and waxed the other 2, they seemed to be very nice, but all three still
felt slightly heavier than they would/wood have if dried "naturally... maybe
because it was soft wood???

HELP ME, MARGE!!!!


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