Has this ever happened to you?
Was turning blackwood and tried sanding with steel wool. Was not very effective however so I set the steel wool down on my wood table. Next day basically 20 hours later I was doing another turning and noticed the steel wool and picked it up to put it away. The underside was red with fire and had burned a small hole in the table. There was no smoke for some reason and I did not smell it. This was a whole pad of steel wool.. Comments?
Was turning blackwood and tried sanding with steel wool. Was not very effective however so I set the steel wool down on my wood table. Next day basically 20 hours later I was doing another turning and noticed the steel wool and picked it up to put it away. The underside was red with fire and had burned a small hole in the table. There was no smoke for some reason and I did not smell it. This was a whole pad of steel wool.. Comments?