The recent thread at https://www.aawforum.org/community/index.php?threads/rough-turned-bowls-cracking.16158/ included a couple of mentions of how different wood species can dry differently, and hints of how they should each be handled. Are there any books or web pages, etc. that go into more detail of how the different species dry, or perhaps even discussions of turning the different species? I've got a few books on wood identification (Baker, Porter, Meier), and several books on turning (Ellsworth, Raffan, etc.) and all of these have brief mentions of different species. But many of these are comments are simply along the lines of "great for turning"; such a comment may be interesting but it's not particularly useful.
My particular example is that I've nearly exhausted my supply of oak from a fallen tree, and I'm next going to fell and chunk some nearly-dead ash trees (victims of the ash borer; I've got several of these). How should I expect ash to act differently on the lathe than oak? What different precautions should I take with regard to drying? And then when I go next to a walnut tree that I've got my eye on, how will that wood dry and work differently?
Those are just the specific questions. Are there any resources that go into depth on multiple species?
My particular example is that I've nearly exhausted my supply of oak from a fallen tree, and I'm next going to fell and chunk some nearly-dead ash trees (victims of the ash borer; I've got several of these). How should I expect ash to act differently on the lathe than oak? What different precautions should I take with regard to drying? And then when I go next to a walnut tree that I've got my eye on, how will that wood dry and work differently?
Those are just the specific questions. Are there any resources that go into depth on multiple species?