Hi Steve
Thank you very much. I love turning these bowls and I would say that 98 % of all my work is processed and turned from wet wood for seasoning and a large percentage now being turned to finish size/thin wall. Like you I find turning wet wood a therapeutic and slowly over the years my turning has evolved in this direction more and more.
One of the main reasons for this is the price of timber for my style of turning, bowls, hollow forms vases etc, also the sizes in which this is available.
Seasoning of my work is done in two ways. For batch runs of bowls I either place them in a large 120 L dustbin liners. These are turned out every day or so until the moisture that collects on the inside of the walls is no longer evident. The bowls are then stacked and sticked in the roof section of my workshop which is cool and draft free, until dry, then finish turned.
For the items turned to finish in one go these have an equal wall thickness of 3-6 mm depending on the project, oiled heavily with lemon oil to slow down the rate of moisture loss and stacked on the shelves in my workshop until dry, after which I re-oil and buff. This takes around 2 -3 weeks to season the pieces ready for sale.
Thank again for your comments, much appreciated.