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Always check the oven temp...

Robert_Phelps

Robert_Phelps

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I've been turning a thick ironwood branch into 2 scales for my first knife the past few days. You know, blistering my fingers with sanding and all of that.. I wiped them off with a damp rag today to get some of this black stuff off of them (black stuff from sanding, don't know what it was exactly.. it didn't come off anyway..) and then put them in my oven at 150 for a few minutes to make sure they were still nice and dry.. I come back a bit later, open the oven, and there are two pieces of handle shaped charcoal in front of me.:eek: They were warped all over, and snapped in two like nothing. My brother had come in behind me since my last wood drying, and cooked a pizza...at 425 degrees. Oh well.. I'll call it practice, I guess.
 
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