Woodturning Apricot Bowl – Rough Turn Green and Microwave Dry Before Finishing

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Woodturning Apricot Bowl – Rough Turn Green and Microwave Dry Before Finishing

By Alan Stratton on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 | 2 Comments

With this bowl, I’m starting with Apricot harvested recently. It is still very green or wet. I will microwave this bowl to see if the microwave will speed up the process and provide some “instant gratification”. Alas, no luck with this wood turning project. Microwave drying even at 20% power produced disappointing checks and cracks […]

Woodturning Apricot Bowl – Green Wood to Finished Bowl via Microwave Drying

By Alan Stratton on Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 | Comments Off

Woodturning green wood is fun. But it is hard to have patience after rough turning a beautiful bowl while the wood dries. Here, I rough turn green apricot then dry the rough turning in a microwave oven. Finish turning was just a few hours later. All finished within 1 day. My plan was: Rough turn […]

Woodturning Apricot Bowl From Green Wood

By Alan Stratton on Saturday, January 28th, 2012 | Comments Off

For this woodturning project, I’m having some fun with a piece of green apricot from a neighbor’s tree. No midnight wood harvesting, he asked for help and I was only too happy to salvage the wood. Now I have a small pile of apricot for a lot of woodturning projects – some large and many […]

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