Texatdurango
Member
In another thread a member asked where he could find some amboyna burl and his thread was hijacked and quickly turned into a ****ing contest about stabilizing.
This got me to thinking. I honestly believe that many members are making WAY TOO BIG OF A DEAL over stabilizing and think they have to stabilize every piece of wood they turn and I just don't get it!
I have turned my fair share of burls including a lot af amboyna and I've never felt the need to stabilize any of it! SOME woods could stand stabilizing, MOST don't!
I have a feeling that this whole stabilizing FAD got started when some inexperienced turners started turning some woods they were not ready for, got some catches, ruined some expensive blanks then thought the answer was to stabilize EVERYTHING. That way they could attack the blanks with their super duty carbide insert tools with the force of a bull and no harm was done.
For me, the smell that fills my shop when I turn amboyna is worth taking my time and actually letting the tool cut the wood rather than plowing through a stabilized blank.
This got me to thinking. I honestly believe that many members are making WAY TOO BIG OF A DEAL over stabilizing and think they have to stabilize every piece of wood they turn and I just don't get it!
I have turned my fair share of burls including a lot af amboyna and I've never felt the need to stabilize any of it! SOME woods could stand stabilizing, MOST don't!
I have a feeling that this whole stabilizing FAD got started when some inexperienced turners started turning some woods they were not ready for, got some catches, ruined some expensive blanks then thought the answer was to stabilize EVERYTHING. That way they could attack the blanks with their super duty carbide insert tools with the force of a bull and no harm was done.
For me, the smell that fills my shop when I turn amboyna is worth taking my time and actually letting the tool cut the wood rather than plowing through a stabilized blank.