How To Turn Green Wood On A Lathe

Creating a green wood bowl blank involves removing as much of the surrounding excess wood as possible in preparation for the blank to later be easily turned on the lathe.

How to turn green wood on a lathe. Wood may be turned on a lathe both when it is green or wet and when it has been allowed to dry out. A mortise attachment point will expand push apart and break the wood fibers on an end-grain bowl and potentially fly off the lathe. Then pack the rough turned bowl in shavings in a paper bag and set it aside to dry in a controlled fashion.

Let the bowls air dry or place them in paper bags with fresh shavings. The best strategy Ive seen is to rough turn let dry then finish turn. 15072012 Eingebettetes Video Woodturning.

See more about Wood bowls Turning and Lathe parts. If you are uneasy about it use a large forstner but to establish a mortise that your chuck can grab onto. Turn the Wood at Proper Speeds The wood that is being turned by the lathe must be turned at an appropriate speed.

The rule of thumb is to turn to a thickness 110th of the finished diameter. Jun 9 2016 - Turning Green Wood. Explore Mike Bs board Latheturning green wood on Pinterest the worlds catalog of ideas.

Turn a thin walled bowl a medium thick walled bowl and a thicker bowl. On the lathe turn sample bowls to determine how the green wood will behave. Freshly-felled timber contains a lot of moisture up to 50 of its dry weight.

One way is to use the headstock and the rear spindle to suspend a piece of wood between the two and turn along the length of the piece of wood. 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. Joseph Anderson April 18th 2016.