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What to do with this cherry
- Thread starter edlea
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sbwertz
Full Member
Cut some into bowl blanks and rough turn it now. Cut the pen blanks, dip the ends in wax, stack them loosely and let them dry a few months.
Personalty Ed I would cut it up into 1" that will allow for the wood to shrink pen blanks seal the ends with PVA or wax lay the blanks out with a gap in-between put sticks across them and do another row on top and keep doing that then they will have room for air to circulate then store them indoors somewhere and they will be ready about Christmas time if you leave them in logs with sealed ends you will have a lot of waste good luck mate
It doesn't look like it is very thick, I would cut something that diameter into pen blanks and and seal the ends. You could cut some of the bigger stuff into 4-5" logs and cut them in half lengthways to make some natural edged bowls, seal the ends though.
Peter
Peter
Cherry is a bugger for splitting Ed, I`d also go with cutting it up & sealing the ends also try & eliminate the pith (center ring) from any of your blanks.
pop it........................................................................................................................................... the cherry doh 
That's terrible Steven.. 
But my answer to the question would be... Send it to me and I will take care of it for you.....
No honestly, I would cut it half of up as woody states and the other half I would cut it up in to sensible sized pieces, wax the ends and store it in the shed till next year. Then you might decide to turn something else with the bigger bits..
But my answer to the question would be... Send it to me and I will take care of it for you.....
No honestly, I would cut it half of up as woody states and the other half I would cut it up in to sensible sized pieces, wax the ends and store it in the shed till next year. Then you might decide to turn something else with the bigger bits..
Penpal
Grand Master
Every word so far recommends as I do DO IT NOW allow for minor splitting. Good sense to collect it. Makes dry well presented blanks very attractive to me you are in for a time warp there mate.:goesred
Kind regards Peter.
Kind regards Peter.