The Forestry Forum

I saw small amounts of unusual wood for hobbiest (and myself) for furniture, bowl blanks...I would like to get into a specialty market of green turning blanks. I know you can smear junk all over the wood to seal it, but I am thinking about dragging the wifes vacuum bag food sealer out to the garage. If it works I can have stuff for resale in stock. Will it work?
(I already have her blender out there from a failed catfish bait experiment, and a pan from another "make my own rubber crappie lure" attempt and...) ::)

Daren,

There are commercial 'dips' available that stop fungus and stain. That would be an interesting experiment to soak green wood in a dip and then seal it in a vacuum.

Den

If nothing else an interesting experiment beats watching it snow. I guess my next question is does anyone have any ideas on stopping degrade causers before bagging?  Since I am talking about smaller pieces I could zap it in the microwave for a couple of minutes, but I don't want to dry it.

If you are wanting to keep it green and uncured I wonder what it would to bag it and put in the freezer? Maybe with a little water around it like we do fish to keep from freezer burn. Probably wouldn't work, be too simple. Oh well, just a thought.

My first concern would be mold, but maybe the dip that Den mentioned might stop that.  Give it a try :-)  Nothing like proving whether it works or not :-)