A neighbor offered me some cherry, out of his firewood pile. I started turning a blank cut from one of the pieces yesterday, and found, among all the worm holes through the sapwood, a living worm. This wood's been in my garage for a bit over a year, and was in the neighbor's stack for some time before that, so it's quite dry.
Two questions:
1. Should I be concerned about live worms messing up my house (garage storage, basement lathe) or the bowl I'm trying to turn?
2. The cherry's very hard, and I'm finding it tears out easily with a roughing gouge. Is that mostly an issue with tool sharpness, or are there methods I should know for working around this aspect?
[attachment=49662]
Two questions:
1. Should I be concerned about live worms messing up my house (garage storage, basement lathe) or the bowl I'm trying to turn?
2. The cherry's very hard, and I'm finding it tears out easily with a roughing gouge. Is that mostly an issue with tool sharpness, or are there methods I should know for working around this aspect?
[attachment=49662]