How To Turn Green Wood On A Lathe

The best strategy Ive seen is to rough turn let dry then finish turn.

How to turn green wood on a lathe. Explore Mike Bs board Latheturning green wood on Pinterest the worlds catalog of ideas. See more about Wood bowls Turning and Lathe parts. Turn a thin walled bowl a medium thick walled bowl and a thicker bowl.

Attaching an end-grain bowl to the lathe works excellent with a tenon because the tenon is compressing wood fibers. Freshly-felled timber contains a lot of moisture up to 50 of its dry weight. Learn more about my woodturning book.

This is referred to as spindle turning and is the type of woodturning that is done to create long ornate table legs and other long wood turnings. Then pack the rough turned bowl in shavings in a paper bag and set it aside to dry in a controlled fashion. Making a green wood bowl blank is essentially the process of preparing a particular piece of fresh cut wood to a given size and shape.

Some woodturners like to use a very small spindle lathe to turn. Turn the Wood at Proper Speeds The wood that is being turned by the lathe must be turned at an appropriate speed. Joseph Anderson April 18th 2016.

So a 10 bowl would be rough turned to 1 wall thickness. Let the bowls air dry or place them in paper bags with fresh shavings. The removal of this moisture is known as seasoning.

Wood may be turned on a lathe both when it is green or wet and when it has been allowed to dry out. 15072012 Eingebettetes Video Woodturning. If you are uneasy about it use a large forstner but to establish a mortise that your chuck can grab onto.