Reading the post below about the Osage splitting makes me wonder about an upcoming project. My turning has also been limited to spindles, well mostly pens and pepper mills. I've turned a little greenish maple for Windsor chair legs, but those billets were fairly dry by the time I got them.
I've got to take out a couple of dogwood trees in a few weeks and want to turn a few mallets and mauls from the trunks and roots. I guess I need to know how soon I should turn them after I get the wood. And what I need to do to keep them from cracking after.