Rough Turning Spindle Blanks

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- John Gbur
  
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15 years ago

Sun, Mar 15, 2009 1:20 AM

Does anyone rough turn their spindle blanks. I am asking mainly for the turning stock I cut myself that starts as green wood. I was thinking of rough turning some of the partially dryed stock. I was thinking that would save time when I go to do a project and allow it to dry faster as well. I was concerned it might move or crack more.

I normally seal my spindle stock with gulf wax (Parrafin). I was thinking it would rough turn it and then reseal the ends and then store it until its ready for use.

Let me know if any others are doing this and how the results are. I do plenty of bowls twice turned but haven't done that with green spindle stock yet.

Thanks, John Gbur

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15 years ago

Sun, Mar 15, 2009 1:46 AM

Hi John, As soon as the gum hardens, I chop the branches and bark from green Norfolk Is. pine logs. Then I rough to round between centers with a spindle turning gouge. Then I slather liquid dish washing soap diluted

1:2 all over the rounds. They dry without cracking if kept out of sun & rain.

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15 years ago

Sun, Mar 15, 2009 2:33 PM

Yeah, I'll make cylinders form firewood if I don't have anything I need to make right now. They go a bit oval, but they would have done that drying anyway. They may split, but they probably would have done that anyway, and this way you only have the work of roughing into them when they do split. And when you need to make something, it's faster to grab a pre-roughed cylinder and dive into making what you wanted to make than to start with roughing the hunk of firewood.