Author: cjwright
Date: 2007-01-07 04:23
I was curious if anyone noticed the same pattern I get with my pregouging/gouging?
If I sort, split, trim to size, pregouge, and set in a window to sit for a while, all in one sitting, many of the pieces that measured perfectly straight bend or bow.
However If I sort, split, trim to size, pregouge, gouge, and set in a window, all in one sitting, they don't warp.
All I can think of is the tension that holds them in a tube keeps the piece "straight", however when I split the piece and pregouge it, it leaves different tension in different places of the cane, and this causes it to warp. By gouging out the cane, it relieves the tension, and allows it to sit as I measured it when I sorted.
I pregouged over 300 pieces, and going back through them now, I find that 80% of them are unusable now. That's about a 1.5 pounds of cane. Darn.
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