Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Anchorseal - - what next ?
Pete in Holland, MI
>Having recently gotten into the Anchoseal process on nearly 40 12" bowls, I need to get them off the floor of my shop. Can they just be heaped in a corner or neatly stacked? How bout storage in my garage or barn? Any better or worse places to keep them? I live in SW Michigan. Thanx !
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Gary Evans, Tallassee, TN
>Pete, I don't see why you can't stack them neatly. If they are still pretty green, I would put the dark woods in a place of higher relative humidity. If you aren't in a hurry to finish them, the slower you dry them, the better.
White woods should probably be put where it is a little drier to avoid stain.You could move them all to drier space after they sit there for awhile.
Gary
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Sean Troy
>The floor is the best place to let them dry. Down low and turned top side down. Sean
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Dennis Bilevich
>Send them to Prescott AZ,
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jeff jilg
>After you get too many, the floor gets crowded. I stack mine in racks and shelves. Between each is several small pieces of wood (spacers) to allow air flow.
The spacers are cut on the bandsaw from scrap pallet wood...usually around 1/4" square by 1-2" long. You can cut quite a lot of them in 10 minutes.
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George Van in WI
>If I stack my bowls together too soon I will get mold and fungus growth. The idea of stickers works well for me also. I have some on shelves where they are set on edge just touching where the edge of the rim touches the one in front of it.
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Mike Schwing from Md.
>Pete, one more suggestion - write the date that you coated them in anchoseal on each rough. I use thick black magic marker, it writes on top of Anchorseal and anything that bleeds through gets turned away anyhow.
And if you have the means, weigh them, too. (I don't do this though). If you're good enough about weighing and recording, you'll discover when they stop losing moisture and can be finish turned.
I wait 8-12 months or so, retrue them, and sit them aside for a month. If they are not quite dry, they are usually dry enough that they will move a little more without cracking, and then I return them a final time, with the assurance that they won't move much more if at all.
