The wood needs to be dried, but you can do that yourself.
I follow Misquite Man's suggestion of using my toaster oven to dry the wood before stabilizing. It's worked very well for me. I use the same toaster oven for the baking part of the stabilizing process.
I put the "wet" wood in the toaster oven at 200F, at 1.5 hours. It usually takes 2 or 3 rounds to get the wood down to or under 10% MC, then you're good to go.
It's a simple process and works well.
Happy turning
Tom