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I have never had worms in my turning wood so I will wait for someone else to answer
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Worms can live in the outer parts of wood for a long time. Commercially dried wood kills the worms off. Home milled or cut, be sure and remove the bark before storing.
You can turn a basic shape, then put it in a freezer for a week to kill the worms off. Pull it out, let it dry back down to your relative humidity, then finish the turning.
Steve
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Thanks, Steve. I may try that on some of the other pieces--but I'll have to be careful, as LOML won't be happy that I'm freezing worms!
I put the rest of the cherry outside again for the time being, but finished up the blank I had on the lathe. The one worm didn't survive my digging in after it, and I suspect if there were any others, they met the pointy end of the bowl gouge. Then I took all the shavings out & dumped them.
Here's the result. Better than bowl 1, but still a long, long way to go.
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I didn't expect to see a wormhole in the heart wood, but there it is. You can see the two ends of the deep tunnel in the first picture. I wonder how long it'll take for the worm's (ahem) sawdust to fall out. Happily, that's the only tunnel outside the now-gone sapwood.
In reading some of the AAW's materials, I understand now that I shouldn't have been using a (spindle) roughing gouge for the initial roughing out of the blank, so that helps some with my other question. I focused on the bowl gouge today, and the tearout on the outside of the bowl largely disappeared. However, I need to develop better skills with it on the inside. Thankfully, a rounded scraper did a very nice job smoothing the interior.
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Nothing wrong with that bowl. It looks great especially for a new turner. Now that you've discovered the difference between a spindle gouge and bowl gouge things should get easier.
Frank