Longfellow
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Does anyone use a dehydrator to dry their wood blanks? If so, what brand, opinions on usefulness, etc.
Ken, I've used a microwave to dry pen blanks, but I just bought 200 pieces of Hickory 1.75x1.75x20 and I need to dry them FAST I'm cutting them in half and going to steal the old lady's dehydrator and see if I can get some handle blanks in them, I know it works with penblank size pieces, just took a few weeks, and a microwave does it in under an hour at nuking them for 30 intervals then cooling off for 5 minutes. our dehydrator is one from a TV infomercial it's about 5 or 6 years old, and still works,
The microwave works well. One word of caution, if you use reclaimed wood, make sure that you pass the metal detector over the wood before popping it in the microwave. DAMHIKT
Ken, I've used a microwave to dry pen blanks, but I just bought 200 pieces of Hickory 1.75x1.75x20 and I need to dry them FAST I'm cutting them in half and going to steal the old lady's dehydrator and see if I can get some handle blanks in them, I know it works with penblank size pieces, just took a few weeks, and a microwave does it in under an hour at nuking them for 30 intervals then cooling off for 5 minutes. our dehydrator is one from a TV infomercial it's about 5 or 6 years old, and still works,
I cut lots of camphor, cedar and citrus woods. They all are highly aromatic. Does drying them in the microwave leave a residue odor that would affect food placed in the microwave after using it for wood I want to avoid World War 3 with SWMBO.
I got my microwave off of Craigs List for free. Works well, it is an older and thus bigger one. Holds a lot.