Yesterday I thought I would have a go at turning a bowl out of a piece of wood my brother gave me, It had been sat in the Boiler house at the factory where he worked for about 6 years (so should be dry?)
I started turning a piece of the wood when I was getting near the basic shape I switched the lathe off whilst I had a cup of tea, I could hear clicking and cracking when I looked at the piece of wood splits and cracks were appearing before my eyes, I quickly got some superglue and tried to stem the cracks.
This seemed to do the trick so I carried on turning about 2 hours and 1/2 bottle of superglue later the bowl was ready for polishing but it looked a real mess and I was about to dispatch it to the bin when (swmbo) said you have come this far you may as well finish it
So here is the piece of tat
Phil
In my mind it still belongs in the bin
My main question though is
(A) Why did the wood crack in sutch a way?
(B) Is there anything I could have done to prevent this happening or happening again in the future?
(C) Can you identify this wood? my brother seemed to think it was some sort of Apple (but you may know different!)I have included a couple of pics which may help
(D) lastly is there anyway I can release the stress in the wood so it wont happen again or should I just dump the log at the local tip?
I started turning a piece of the wood when I was getting near the basic shape I switched the lathe off whilst I had a cup of tea, I could hear clicking and cracking when I looked at the piece of wood splits and cracks were appearing before my eyes, I quickly got some superglue and tried to stem the cracks.
This seemed to do the trick so I carried on turning about 2 hours and 1/2 bottle of superglue later the bowl was ready for polishing but it looked a real mess and I was about to dispatch it to the bin when (swmbo) said you have come this far you may as well finish it
So here is the piece of tat
Phil
In my mind it still belongs in the bin
My main question though is
(A) Why did the wood crack in sutch a way?
(B) Is there anything I could have done to prevent this happening or happening again in the future?
(C) Can you identify this wood? my brother seemed to think it was some sort of Apple (but you may know different!)I have included a couple of pics which may help
(D) lastly is there anyway I can release the stress in the wood so it wont happen again or should I just dump the log at the local tip?