Re: Preserving tree slices

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From: Daryl Krupa
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:36

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dr_smug@yahoo.co.uk (Ken Baker) wrote in message news:<3babb67e.140930592@news.cable.ntlworld.com>...
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> I think I might go for the slow drying approach, and (regularly)
> painting it with oil would slow down evaporation as well as being
> absorbed. I'd like to varnish it afterwards, but I'll cross that
> bridge when I come to it.

  You might get a number of hose clamps, open them up, and join them 
end to end to form a larger hoop that fits around the circumference
of your slice.
  Tighten them up until they bite into the wood (bark?).
  Tighten it more, at intervals to maintain pressure in case the 
slice is shrinking along the radius.
  It might not stop radial cracking ("checking"), but it will keep 
your slice in one piece.

Works for me, 
Daryl Krupa

P.S.: consider WD-40 (fish-oil based pentrating oil) as a 
water-displacing agent. Also consider a urethane coating 
(e.g. Varathane) to seal in moisture before cracking occurs.

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