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.

How to turn green wood on a lathe. Jun 9 2016 - Turning Green Wood. 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. You can also get started using a screw chuck mounted in your four jaw chuck if you have one that is sufficiently large for the bowl blank that you are mounting.

Turn the Wood at Proper Speeds The wood that is being turned by the lathe must be turned at an appropriate speed. 15072012 Eingebettetes Video Woodturning. Turn a thin walled bowl a medium thick walled bowl and a thicker bowl.

Let the bowls air dry or place them in paper bags with fresh shavings. 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. Joseph Anderson April 18th 2016.

Then pack the rough turned bowl in shavings in a paper bag and set it aside to dry in a controlled fashion. See more about Wood bowls Turning and Lathe parts. A variable speed lathe will typically turn the stock from about 500 RPM to a max speed of about 4000 RPM.

So a 10 bowl would be rough turned to 1 wall thickness. 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. The choice of whether to turn green or dry wood depends on the woodworkers preferences and aims.

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. The rule of thumb is to turn to a thickness 110th of the finished diameter.