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New Glue soaked bowls

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New Glue soaked bowls

keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>Greetings all,

Here are a couple of a oak natural edged bowls I have completed after soaking them in the glue water solution. Both were soaked for about a week and then air-dried. I am pleased with the results and wanted to share them with everyone. Both were turned thick at about 1/4-5/16", then finished with Minwax Tung Oil Finish and buffed on the Beall system. They are about 5" in diameter and 4" deep.

I believe the glue soaking helped stabilize the wood enough that I did not experience the tearout or disintegration of the wood fiber while turning. I am looking forward to doing more wood with this technique. The next wood will be some spalted birch I picked up in Northern Wisconsin.

Thanks for looking.

keithz


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keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>A pic of #2


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Glenn Hodges

>Keith, are you refering to white glue?

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Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi Keith,

Those are great! You don't see a lot of turned oak bowls, but I really like the colors with the heartwood/sapwood on yours.

Thanks for the pics,

Playing in the park in Apex, NC!

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John Lucas

>Keith

Nice bowls. I'm not sure why you need the glue however. I've turned quite a few oak bowls and vessels green, seasoned or just plain dry. I haven't had any problems. John

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George Van

>Nice job Kieth. You weren't know as Zeke in northern WI at one time long ago were you? We had a Zeke in Minocqua.

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RonZ

>Can you elaborate what the glue solution was. I need to stabalize some very unstable olive wood.

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Yes

keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>I mixed 1 gallon of White glue and 1 gallon wof water.

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keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>No. I've never lived in No. Wisc, but I grew up in the Twin Cities.

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keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>The limb these bowls came from was quite soft. In two prior bowls, I had the fiber of the wood disintegrate to the point that I wound up soaking the entire bowl in CA in order to complete it. I tried this technique as alternative to using all that CA. I had no problems with the wood after soaking it in this solution. In fact, it turned really well.

keithz