Sorta solar kiln

[OlJarhead]

Finished off my 3rd piece.  I noticed a very slight bit of movement in the piece overnight though (I think -- unless it wasn't quite flat after the 1st session) and shimmed it with some sand paper, finished planing/jointing and then flipped and planed the first side again just that little bit.  Lots of nice figure, which probably resulted in the slight movement.  

 

Here's hoping it settled down.  A friend of mine was big into Japanese carpentry and explained that no matter what you do it will move.  The question is, he says, can you work with the wood and what it wants to do  :D ya, not likely.  I'll stop at some point and super glaze that sucker and attach steel legs and move on ;)

 



 





 

[doc henderson]

I think rustic allows for a little movement, not meant to be perfect.  if you keep it you re-flatten it 3 years from now if needed.