how to anchorseal a roughed blank?

Re: how to anchorseal a roughed blank?

Al Crandall

>My take on this issue was solved the first time I looked at the side of a bowl and noticed that with the exception of a very narrow strip of flat grain, almost the entire bowl inside and outside showed endgrain cut into at varying angles. I decided that there was no advantage to not sealing every inch of surface. Your mileage may vary.

Re: how to anchorseal a roughed blank?

Barbara Gill, Remlik Virginia

>I have had good luck with coating the endgrain, both inside and out. I also usually lightly coat the rim.

I'm with Al on this one

Mike Schwing from Md.

>In fact, I was sealing a roughed blank yesterday and had the exact same conversation with myself. It was a big black cherry blank, probably 60% dry, and it probably wouldn't have cracked. BUT cherry moves a lot and I looked at the bowl as I was painting the endgrain and said "really, bowls are ALL endgrain", so I painted the whole thing. The only two exceptions, for me, are silver maple and ash, because I've discovered that they don't even crack if I leave them totally exposed. All of my work dries in a basement with year round 50% RH levels at about 70F.

If you seal the whole blank you'll have a much better chance of survival. It might take a while longer, but whats the rush?

Re: how to anchorseal a roughed blank?

Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Hi Dick

I will offer the contrary opinion here. While there is a lot of exposed end grian on a bowl, it is not all end grain, and so I seal only the end grain and leave the edge grain bare. This evens out the drying process by buffering the water coming out of the end to make the drying even overall. Sealing the entire bowl just slows it all down. This may not be so apparent on smaller pieces, but it is more obvious on larger bowls. It also makes the Anchorseal last longer. I have a segment on sealing bowls in the DVD which addresses this very subject.

Bill

Re: how to anchorseal a roughed blank?

John Lucas

>I guess I'm in the middle. I coat the bottom foot area, and inside inthe same location. I coat the lip and any heavy endgrain anywhere else in the bowl. These are areas that have caused me problems in the past. I haven't had the problems repeat but this is very unscientific with a lot of vodoo thrown in. In fact I have a fruitwood bowl that I stick pins in to ward off the evil.

I'm with Bill on this one.....

W.C. Turner

>Seal endgrain only.

W.C.

Me, Too

Mark Kauder

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Re: Al is right

Duane C.Leach

>I hate to say it but Al is right. I will never here the end of this.

Re: how to anchorseal a roughed blank?

keith zimmerman, Normal, IL

>My usual practice is to coat the entire bowl and put it into a paper bag, but then my stuff isn't all that large.

keithz