I found a terrific website of a woodworker in Hawaii who has found a
way to work with green wood. He has begun using concentrated
dishwa****ng detergant mixed with water to treat wood that is still
very wet, often only a day down from the tree. Using this method, he
has turned many projects and been able to finish them with minimal
cracking, shrinking, and warping of the wood typically associated with
us turners as being a big problem when turning and drying green wood.
Seems like there is no shortage of ideas on this subject, but if
anyone is interested, check out www.ronkent.com Once there, click on
'techniques' and scroll down a little to where the article
'experimental new treatment for wood' begins and read on. I plan to
try this soon, but thought of posting it here to encourage others to
try it out. Hopefully, we can do some collective research and testing
on all different types of wood and compile our findings here. I
would be curious to know if anyone has heard of this, tried it, and
what the results were.
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