I scored a few pieces of 8-10" diameter apple logs from a friend's wood pile. It had been sitting in the sun for a year and was so badly checked and cracked that a lot had to be cut away and discarded.
One bowl had some beautiful figure, but it got so wonky and distorted it looked like a Piccasso. A couple of end-grain vase-like pieces were more stable, but had cracks that had to be repaired with sawdust and glue. (And the repairs stick out like a sore thumb.)
The same friend cut down an apple tree recently. I found out about it about a week later and went right over to get some. I turned the outside of some bowls and returned a few hours later to find checking on the outside surface.
(Should I have put them in a paper bag until I could hollow out the inside?)
Where I glued those cracks with CA and the glue darkened the surrounding light-colored wood, I have sanded and sanded and sanded. I can't get the glue stains from around the cracks.
Previously on some cherry I tried a washcoat of shellac before putting CA on the cracks. Of course the shellac just gummed up the sandpaper.
So how do you get the glue off? (The bowls are already distorted enough that I can't use a gouge or scraper.)
Thanks for your thoughts,
Fred