Roughing bowls part 3 of 3

This is the third part of three of a video showing how I cut a log into bowl blanks and roughed them out into rough bowls ready for drying.

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• woodturning
• turning
• wood lathe
• lathe

[Wheelin4lyfe]

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.

[bobham5]

@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]

@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

[MrLeonard55]

Nice vid Bob. Just wondered how much time passed between cutting the trees down and when you cut them up into blanks.

Leonard

[bobham5]

@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]

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

[woodbineshark]

Hello Bob, you videos are awsome as usual. Can't wait to see the next one..Take ir easy Marc from Calgary

[Wheelin4lyfe]

@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]

@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.

[MrLeonard55]

@bobham5  Thanks Bob

Leonard

[bobham5]

@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