Woodturning Small Goblet – Stabilized (Experiment) Cottonwood
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I am testing my stabilizing setup. An early experiment was a 2x2x3 block of cottonwood. It is quite a long process to dry wood, vacuum wood, and soak wood.
After all the work, the wood is different: heavy, dense. Also, the grain seems to be popping as if well buffed.
I also used my new soft jaws. These are great. IMHO, they will replace jam chucks. I will wind up with several bases with jaws of different sizes. As I adapt a set, the jaws will become larger until I face them off to start over. When too thin, I will glue on a fresh set of wood pieces for the next go around.
You may want to rewatch my video on the soft jaws.
Three Options For DIY Soft Jaws
Enjoy.
Very interesting small goblet.
Can you describe the stabilizing of wood How to.
What is required.
Thanks
For stabilizing, a heat curable resin saturates the wood under vacuum to promote penetration.
Then the wood is heated to cure the resin.
Much more detail than can be had here.
check http://www.turntex.com