Woodturning: Dried Firewood

Video Transcript

"What we're going to do in this section is show you how to deal with eliminating the checks in, primarily in dried firewood. One of the things, as a safety consideration, when you're dealing with a band saw, which is the best tool to use, you don't want to put the wood in unsupported. If you put the wood in as the band saw blade is coming down it's going to want to rotate the wood. The way you deal with that is you take your piece of wood and mount it into a V block. This is simply just a piece of two x four cut with a V. Sit your wood down and you make a cut. At this point you'll still see there's various checks in it, there's; you can still see cracking, so you make another cut a little further back until it appears that you have no check marks. Then what you'll do at this point is you want to take a thin slice. Take this slice and then try to twist it. If you have any checks the wood will come apart. As an example just to show you what this one works, if you had checks you'd find that the wood would just split. Then what you would do at that point is just making another slice, continue slicing back until it will not split in your hand."