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Hope the fair goes well Neil:thumbs:


Please do try it, I would be interested in your results, good or bad.

I've not tried the pre drilling scenario for pen blanks, but shall do so. The blanks do move quite a lot, but no more than I would expect through conventional drying

If I get chance, I will post some start to finish experiments.

I can only comment on the bowl blanks, by my own experience.

The biggest thing I have done is 8"x 3" Oak, green to finished in 4 months, with no more movement than I would normally expect from a "Dry blank" in the workshop, being brought into a summer lit conservatory.


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