LDD question

I generally, will seal them with an endsealer of some brand. The LDD treatment doesn't come into play until you get serious about turning a bowl or whatever out of the chunk. LDD is not a sealer! It is primarily for stabilizing the wood while you are working on it. When I first became a convert to the LDD Way of Life, I experimented with LDD as a endsealer brushing on multiple coats. Within a few days, cracks begain to develop, so I gave up on that.

I think Joe was asking if he could keep the half log sections submerged in LDD. I don't use LDD, but I think that would work. If you're talking about days or weeks before you turn the Almond, I say try it, at least with some of them. If you're talking months, than I think applying an end sealer would be more convenient, in case you need to move things around, and you don't tie up am LDD container for storage.

Martin

APPLAUSE!

Article in the local paper about "removal" of over 4,000 tons of white pine logs from the lake "going to a landfill" in yesterday's paper. Breaks your heart.

I can't understand how that can happen. You'd think sawmills would cleave unto them like mad ! Woodturners should arise and demand distribution of the logs to a central point where they could at least be gotten for wood turning and/or firewood!

Martin: I understood that, but failed to explain myself adequately. Joe didn't state the size of the log; therefore, I opted to tell him to use an endsealer. If his "log" was the size of firewood chunk, then he could have gone the LDD route. Any bigger and it would be expensive to purchase that much LDD and a vat of sufficient size to contain it. I only use a ca.

2'x2'x3' plastic container for the items I am working on. That takes about two gals. of LDD and two gals. of water. Hope that makes it clearer.

Leif

What is LDD?

Blair

Tony, Tony, Tony! Oh ye of little faith! *G* Why weren't you "nearly impressed with it as Leif." Did your objects crack and warp? Did you follow the holy tenets? Don't do a drive-by on LDD without 'splaining yourself.. Of course plain water could do as well in long term preservation if they were submerged at a great depth in very cold water. Mills in Washington used to have mill ponds where the logs were dumped to keep them from drying out. In modern day mills, the logs are colddecked and sprinklers are used to keep them wet -- not as effective as submerged in water. I, too, have fruit wood lying in the vat of LDD and they have been there for nearly a year and have not altered in that time. Unfortunately, I haven't been well enough to get in the shop and turn them.

Leif

Hi, Tony! Thanks for the reply. I have been engaged in surreptitious/clandestine communication with quite a number of turners who use LDD very successfully. They were enjoined to inform me of their experience with it, and I haven't gotten any reports of problems other than from those who did not follow the instructions. If I want warping for a bowl, I must not expose it to the fumes arising from my LDD vat, or even mutter the mantra of "LDD" whilst turning! The presence of bagged items may have a deleterious effect. Have you considered having your shop exorcised?

*G*

P.S. Are you sure you have no connection with "The Sopranos?"

Sure, I store pieces in LDD that I don't feel like sealing and drying for years frequently. I've got some spalted myster wood that has lots of red streaks in LDD, every few months I take some out and turn it, I've been doing it for better than a year at this point. Lasts just fine. Dave in Fairfax