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That's a nice piece of wood David, i wouldn't think you'd have much problems if you ran the neck in the same direction as the grain with that, we don't get ash here, so no actual hands on knowledge, but it looks ok to me
I think rather you will get problems with the inner tensions of this piece of wood: is there already a fine crack left of the mid of your photo?
The grain runs in the opposite direction of a conventional board. Give it a shot if it's a dry piece if wood. It certainly is beautiful.
Are you sure that is a slice of the trunk?? Looks like normal grain and end grain on the edge, but I haven't been right about much lately - so, take me with a grain of sand!! ;-)
Yep I feel jawbone is on the money here. This piece looks slab cut from the trunk and cut round. if it had been sliced off then I would expect to see the growth rings on the face.
Taff
As to my understanding of what I read on http://www.woodenbowlshop.com/making-bowls the disk you bought is thought for «wet» woodturning and is not dried for years but fresh, right? So you don't know what happens when it dries. Your provider works with fresh wood, dries the rough bowls, and burns away those which got cracks while drying.
Maybe someone can give you a better advice than I do: put this disk away for a year to a place where it doesn't get sun, where it gets air from all sides and wait a year: if it gets a crack, you can think what you will do with the compact part of the disk.
If it is 'wet' and needs to slow-dry...(moisture tester might come in handy here)
from some of my wood-worker magazines on drying 'chunks of wood'...End grain dries faster than face grain. to minimize the chance of checking from uneven drying slap some paint on the circumference before you put it away. you will be sanding/cutting that for your git body anyway. wrap it in a single sheet of newspaper and stick it in your bedroom closet for a year, the newspaper will diffuse the moisture coming off it more slowly so you lessen the chance of getting a dry surface shrinking and wet core still engorged and find it split in the middle.
if it is already dry, ignore the ramblings of this old coot, lol
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