Alabaster Turning, How To Part 1, Max Krimmel
The roughed out stone is put in the chamber and submersed in a thin (1/3 glue/water) solution of Weldbond® glue. The lid goes on and the air is pulled from the chamber with the vacuum. I run the vacuum for about 3 minutes to evacuate as much of the air in the cracks of the stone as possible.