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8th October 2008, 03:19 PM #16anne-maria.
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8th October 2008, 03:33 PM #17Hewer of wood
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No.
Just no lifting. No motorbike riding. Poop.
Snapped ACL, torn MCL. Surgery and 9 months rehab.
Then should be good to get back to Unzud
Anyway, will bring down your two lumps to 's on the Sat TL.Cheers, Ern
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8th October 2008, 07:12 PM #18
When I was looking at the She Oak today that I scored from rsser, I saw that the sapwood had a fungus growing on it, but not the heart wood, and that one piece is showing major splits in the heart wood.
I have made arrangements to have them both brought to the turn fest so we can practice turning them into oversized bowls.
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8th October 2008, 08:06 PM #19Hewer of wood
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Sorry to hear that TS.
Sapwood bluestain is no drama if you don't want to include the sapwood in the bowl, and given the points about best if you don't try.
Checks along the grain: as posted, I've found these tend to open up along an existing weakness like a sapline, or a knot. I just slop end-grain sealer all over them as an interim measure but keep watching.
With other woods, if that doesn't work it's time to rough turn.Cheers, Ern
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12th October 2008, 05:53 PM #20Hewer of wood
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Just to add: the four bits rounded on the BS all have checking.
Not at the very end of the grain but on endgrain closer to the side. Go figure.Cheers, Ern
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13th October 2008, 07:53 AM #21GOLD MEMBER
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read this with interest , cos only yesterday i was given 3 big chunks of SO .
they have been cut a few weeks they are about a foot and a half long and 20 inch diameter .
one has a small pipe , one has a large crack across the end , but the other is solid.
the same guy is cutting another tree in the next few weeks and he is going to let me know when he is doing it and i will remove the trunk for him , this next one is not as big though .
must get some end grain sealer of some sort this wednesday on toowoomba .
i might try the DNA method with some of this wood .
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13th October 2008, 10:21 AM #22
If you are going to turn it, rough turn it now.
If you want to use it to make boxes (flat stuff) rough saw it over size now.
This is the best way I know of get it dry as fast as possible without too much cracking.
It will warp.Cliff.
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13th October 2008, 04:35 PM #23GOLD MEMBER
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would love to do it now but there just aint enough hours in the day at the moment ( spring is here lucerne season has started and i have to get my ground ready for pumpkins too among other things ) add to that we get less time cos of GST only 21.6 hours in a day now the gov gets 10% of every day and only 6.3 days in a week same reason
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13th October 2008, 07:06 PM #24Hewer of wood
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LOL.
Yeah. But good advice Cliff.
On the BS cut round pieces all the sapwood is now checking.
Double dipped them in hot wax today.
Start roughing tomorrow.
Good thing the right leg is still strong.Cheers, Ern
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26th October 2008, 07:42 PM #25
After ruff turning one of the silky oak blanks at the last turnfest into a bowl, with rsser's help. I had applied wax and glue to slow down the drying process particularly over the two knots in the bowl.
Then recently I heard about using a standard light bulb to dry small pieces of timber in a make shift kiln, this gave me the idea of putting the bowl upside down on top of a small bed lamp I have, which puts out a nice amount of heat, I would guess about 60 centigrade (warm to hot to touch without any burn). This has really speed up the drying. The bowl is no longer perfectly round and it has developed checking, however it is drying out rather nicely. I will keep drying the bowl for the next two weeks (when ever I use the lamp), by then it should be dry enough to turn down to its finished size.
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30th October 2008, 09:34 AM #26
Checked my bowl this morning and a crack has opened up so much that light is shinning right through. At least its a small 1.5 mm crack.
Is that a problem?
At least I think is dry.
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30th October 2008, 09:48 AM #27Hewer of wood
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In sapwood or heartwood TS?
I'd be sanding some dust into the crack and squirting cheap CA into that pronto.Cheers, Ern
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30th October 2008, 02:06 PM #29Hewer of wood
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Goodo.
Most of the volume of fill should be wood dust though.
Was this section waxed?Cheers, Ern
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30th October 2008, 03:18 PM #30
One side of it was only I left patches on the inside of the bowl unwaxed, just so the moisture had some place to escape. The knots were covered in glue on the inside of the bowl, they have remained intact and stable.
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