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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 229809, member: 55"]Yes, and this is true of both hand-turned and commercially made lathe-turned boxes or lidded bowls. The effect is greater over time, and greatest when the wood was very green when turned. So a very old item may be very oval, a new one only slightly so; one made from very green wood may go out-of-round very quickly, while one made from very dry wood may be almost stable for a considerable time.</p><p> The effect also depends somewhat on where in the tree the wood came from; one can reduce the effect by aligning the center of the wood-blank with the original center of the tree's grain pattern. This however produces a turned item showing very uninteresting grain, because the growth rings coincide with the circumference of the item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 229809, member: 55"]Yes, and this is true of both hand-turned and commercially made lathe-turned boxes or lidded bowls. The effect is greater over time, and greatest when the wood was very green when turned. So a very old item may be very oval, a new one only slightly so; one made from very green wood may go out-of-round very quickly, while one made from very dry wood may be almost stable for a considerable time. The effect also depends somewhat on where in the tree the wood came from; one can reduce the effect by aligning the center of the wood-blank with the original center of the tree's grain pattern. This however produces a turned item showing very uninteresting grain, because the growth rings coincide with the circumference of the item.[/QUOTE]
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