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David there are many different ways but here are the two main ways of turning wet wood but remember which ever way you choose the thickness must be constant walls and bottom the same thickness to allow an even drying and to hopefully avoid it splitting a lot of people leave the bottom thicker for some strange reason and the bottom splits also don't bring anything you turn et indoors especially when the central heating is on   


method 1/ lets say an 8" bowl turn it to about an inch thick all over with a spigot on the inside and a dovetail recesses on the outside weigh it and make a note of the weight then place the bowl and some shavings in a cloth or paper bag not plastic then every so often take it out and weigh it and when the weight is stable it can be returned to the lathe on the inside spigot first and redefine the dovetail recesses and all of the outside and sand to a finish


Method 2/ turn the whole thing as thin as you dare and sand now depending on how wet it was you may be able to finish it with oil I wouldn't recommend polish because if there is any water in the wood it will destroy your finish oil can displace a small amount of water but if it is to wet then it will have to be weighed the same as the thick one a good thing about this way is you end up with a distorted bowl or when it is finished you can turn a disk to wedge inside to stop the distortion the amount of distortion will depend on the wood type Yew and fruit woods behaves very well Ash, Sycamore and Chequer wood move more and holly can do a 45deg turn around


But at the end of the day David the only way to gain real experience is to give it a try turning wet wood is a completely different experience to dry turning on some wood like Sycamore you will have long streams of shavings flying over your shoulder go on give it a try you wont want to go back to dry wood LOL

I hope this is of help to you mate happy turning now for the other 1,000 ways of doing it :nooidea:


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