If you dont want to wait a year to finish turning a bowl with the paper bag way or even waiting 6-8 months with the anchorseal way, I use a product called Pentacryl. I can rough turn a bowl, use a paint brush and saturate the rough turned bowl with the Pentacryl and let it dry. While other people are looking at their bowl drying, I can be finish turning my bowl in a month or 2. Maybe a little longer on a larger bowl. Less lost bowls due to checking. $20 a quart is worth it in my opinion.
I did try that stuff a few years ago when I had an small ash log section. I put Pentacryl on half of the roughouts and nothing the the others. I can't really say I saw any difference other than the discoloration and odor on the Pentacryl ones. I hope they are not still selling it in plastic bottles. The half bottle I had left was stored on a shelf and started leaking a year or so later. It made quite a mess. It really turned me off the product.
Bob, They are still selling it in plastic bottles and I bought a gallon of it a while back and poured about 1/4 of it in christmas peanut tin left over from the holidays and it started eating the metal away. I went to Walmart and bought a 2 quart plastic jug thinking that would work, I was wrong. Went out yesterday and noticed it started leaking so I stopped by Wally World this morning and bought a heavy duty plastic jug. We will see how that holds up.
As far as the wood goes, I have been turning for lil over 2 yrs so I by no means say I know more than other people but I know what I have seen. I coat the small pieces with a paintbrush, 1 coat x day for 3 days, bigger stuff I immerse in it for 2 days so it soaks up all that it can soak up then let it dry until moisture content comes down to 10% - 12%. It has seemed to work for me and haven't lost a bowl yet which is always good. Respond to PM at wheelin247@ymail.com. Thanks.
P.S.: I have been trying to respond to your PM but I keep getting an error message when I hit send. It wants me to enter a comma separated list of users????
The tree was cut down on Oct. 30 and my sister-in-law and her husband brought the logs over late that day. They also brought half a dozen pieces that had been cut into ~16" lengths. I put Anchorseal on the ends of all of the wood and got the short length pieces roughed into bowls during the first week or two of November because the short lengths would have been very likely to split too badly to use if left.
The video of my cutting the first log up was shot on Jan. 7 and I worked those four rounds into bowl roughouts over the next week or two. I have not touched the second log section yet.
I would have sworn I replied to this already, but I don't see it now. I use a product called Anchorseal. It is a water based wax emulsion that I paint on the end grain areas both inside and out.
Hello Bob, you videos are awsome as usual. Can't wait to see the next one..Take ir easy Marc from Calgary
woodbineshark 17 hours ago
If you dont want to wait a year to finish turning a bowl with the paper bag way or even waiting 6-8 months with the anchorseal way, I use a product called Pentacryl. I can rough turn a bowl, use a paint brush and saturate the rough turned bowl with the Pentacryl and let it dry. While other people are looking at their bowl drying, I can be finish turning my bowl in a month or 2. Maybe a little longer on a larger bowl. Less lost bowls due to checking. $20 a quart is worth it in my opinion.
Wheelin4lyfe 3 weeks ago
@Wheelin4lyfe
Hi, Adam:
I did try that stuff a few years ago when I had an small ash log section. I put Pentacryl on half of the roughouts and nothing the the others. I can't really say I saw any difference other than the discoloration and odor on the Pentacryl ones. I hope they are not still selling it in plastic bottles. The half bottle I had left was stored on a shelf and started leaking a year or so later. It made quite a mess. It really turned me off the product.
Take care
Bob
bobham5 3 weeks ago
@bobham5
Bob, They are still selling it in plastic bottles and I bought a gallon of it a while back and poured about 1/4 of it in christmas peanut tin left over from the holidays and it started eating the metal away. I went to Walmart and bought a 2 quart plastic jug thinking that would work, I was wrong. Went out yesterday and noticed it started leaking so I stopped by Wally World this morning and bought a heavy duty plastic jug. We will see how that holds up.
Wheelin4lyfe 3 weeks ago
@bobham5
As far as the wood goes, I have been turning for lil over 2 yrs so I by no means say I know more than other people but I know what I have seen. I coat the small pieces with a paintbrush, 1 coat x day for 3 days, bigger stuff I immerse in it for 2 days so it soaks up all that it can soak up then let it dry until moisture content comes down to 10% - 12%. It has seemed to work for me and haven't lost a bowl yet which is always good. Respond to PM at wheelin247@ymail.com. Thanks.
Wheelin4lyfe 3 weeks ago
@Wheelin4lyfe
P.S.: I have been trying to respond to your PM but I keep getting an error message when I hit send. It wants me to enter a comma separated list of users????
I have no idea what is up with that.
Bob
bobham5 3 weeks ago
Nice vid Bob. Just wondered how much time passed between cutting the trees down and when you cut them up into blanks.
Leonard
MrLeonard55 1 month ago
@MrLeonard55
Hi, Leonard:
The tree was cut down on Oct. 30 and my sister-in-law and her husband brought the logs over late that day. They also brought half a dozen pieces that had been cut into ~16" lengths. I put Anchorseal on the ends of all of the wood and got the short length pieces roughed into bowls during the first week or two of November because the short lengths would have been very likely to split too badly to use if left.
bobham5 1 month ago
The video of my cutting the first log up was shot on Jan. 7 and I worked those four rounds into bowl roughouts over the next week or two. I have not touched the second log section yet.
Take care
Bob
bobham5 1 month ago
@bobham5 Thanks Bob
Leonard
MrLeonard55 1 month ago
Super, thanks Bob.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
baconsoda 1 month ago
Another great set of videos. Thank you.
mrlacroft 1 month ago in playlist Roughing Bowls
I love your woodturning videos.
Sineath 1 month ago
thanks for showing bob
robbiethewood 1 month ago
I have never turned green wood. What do you use to seal the blank for drying?
docm4n 1 month ago
@docm4n alot of people seal them in a paper bag with a buncha woodchips from turning the bowl, then shelve it for a year.
Sineath 1 month ago
@Sineath
I haven't tried that method but I have heard of it. I think that there are just about as many ways to do it as there are turners. :D
Bob
bobham5 1 month ago
@docm4n
I would have sworn I replied to this already, but I don't see it now. I use a product called Anchorseal. It is a water based wax emulsion that I paint on the end grain areas both inside and out.
Take care
Bob
bobham5 1 month ago
Thank you Bob!
DDoom 1 month ago