Same here green wood is fun to work especially to turn like apple but that’s where it ends, having been in the business for over 60 years I always have a stash of air dried boards, turning stock and lumber on hand (yea my wife is always reminding me) even then you have to allow for movement and learn to read the grain.
Michael From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Ziegler Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 12:27 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mill work and Ideas. Hey Curtis thanks for all the useful information. Good stuff! I'm not big about green wood but now you for sure have my interest. Are you taking any precautions to prevent rust on your equipment and tools or really don't have problems with it? Kind Regards, Timothy J. Ziegler Ziegler WoodWork & Specialty 14171 160th Ave. Foreston MN 56330 320-294-5798 shop 320-630-2243 cell On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:16 AM 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> wrote: Most of those were made yesterday, The wood bowls, NO. but most of the little things on the table were. As far as preserving the wood, I just seal them with shellac, or wax. and leave them be... If the turning is worth the effort, I like to use water displacement when possible. As a General rule of thumb the slower the wood dry's the more stable it becomes. By replacing the water with an oil in the wood, makes sure that the wood will not dry out fast. I like to use tung oil or linseed oil, but mineral oil also works. Its an OLD Sailors trick. When replacing a broken the wooden mast's on a ship, they would find a solid tree to replace the broken mast. The new tree is Green WOOD, What they did was, peal the bark off the tree, put a hole in the top of the new mast, and fill it with oil, then they would soak the new mast with the oil all the way down the sides. once done they would keep filling the dish/hole in the top of the mast, until the oil would find its way down to the bottom of the mast. at this point the oil displaced to water in the wood, and it was allowed to dry. I use to do this on my wooden Dummy's. (Martial art/ "Wooden Man Dummy's". or called Mook Jongs.) They are 10" dia. body's 6 feet tall, When the wood dried out, I had little to no cracking in the body's. I made some 10-15 dummy's per year using this method for over 20 yrs. with very good success. For small turnings, I soak in a bucket of oil for a few days to a week or more, and I've also used a pressure pot, to speed up the process, ( I know a vacuum chamber would also work, but I have not done this...) after the water has been displaced, I let the part dry out. If you get a chance try it for you self. Have a good day. C.A.G. On Sunday, December 20, 2020, 10:29:19 AM EST, Tim Ziegler <timjzieg...@gmail.com> wrote: Lol I think Curt was implying he made those in one day. Hmmmmm On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 11:06 PM Okla Mike (Liltwisted) <legacym...@iglide.net> wrote: That's pretty cool! I will have to take a picture of some of the stuff I have laying around. Mike OK On 12/19/2020 10:45 PM, 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills wrote: Hello Everyone. I've been working in the shop today, Lots of "Saw Dust Therapy" but by a strange twist of luck I found out something that some here may like to know. I picked up an Old AMT wood lathe for a friend on mine. who wants to learn how to turn wood. The AMT is a solidly made machine, the only thing wrong with it as far as I can see is the headstock, has a 3/4-16 threaded shaft adaptor, with out a #1 or #2 MT. To make a long story shorter. I was making some face plates and other parts for this lathe . I found out that a 3/8" pipe coupling has the exact thread as a 3/4-16 tap. I did not need to chase the threads at all with this coupling, the threads matched ... I know you can still buy faceplates and other 3/4-16 parts, but knowing that 3/8" pipe fittings have the same thread can be a very easy make! (Think of it a useless trivia that may come in handy someday.) ;-) I also found a lot of green wood (Tree clippings form a urban tree removal) I picked up some birch, and choke cherry limbs 3"-5" dia. So I've been playing about with some lathe and Legacy turning's today. If you have not heard me say it before, "Green Wood is Fun!" (it cuts so easy!) "Dry wood is WORK". IS SO TRUE! "Boy" I had a good time today. LOT of Fun !~ ;-) Here's some of my things that I made today. C.A.G. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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