Turning cypress trunk sections into tabletops - tips or tricks?

I have the exact same square. It's awesome.

You will need to slowly dry them out. When turning green wood they tell you to put the newly turned whatever into a paper bag and let it dry for a few weeks/months.

hopefully some one will have experience with these. I've never used cypress.

If you're gonna cost it in resin, Place it in a tub of alcohol and let it saturate for a few hours, give it a good week to dry and proceed. My grandpa used to make clocks out of them.

depending on your end coating, there are some chemicals you can soak it or coat it with to turn it


Anchorseal, peg, are a few

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I've dealt with rifle stock blanks before and they were always dehumidified in a kiln before in-letting and shaping .

Try to figure out current moisture % content since the wood is green/fresh. It may be 25-40% moisture right now. Below 6% MC was the desired number when dealing with oak and other hard woods.

There's a science to doing correctly as temperature, air flow (fan), and time need to be in sync. If you dry to fast wood will check, if to slow it will grow mold or fungus.

If cypress is prone to bugs, temperature will have to be at 135 degrees for 4-6 hours. Then at 100 - 110 degrees for 7 - 30 days depending on MC and how large the piece of wood is

I've never done cypress tables , strictly exotic walnuts and maple.

Do some google research and call local lumber mills to see if they have a kiln. You may not have to do anything