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What’s on your lathe?

John K Jordan said:
Have you ever tried thin CA? It soaks in well and has stabilized some worthless (but beautiful) wood for me. I like the Parson's 3408.
It usually soaks al the wan to the center but I can reapply if some questionable wood is exposed while turning.

You want more oak? I have a big white oak down. Bring a chaiansaw.
When it gets cold I plan to take down two good-sized sassafras, a persimmon, a walnut, and a sourwood - all are in the way. May be time to fire up the sawmill.

JKJ
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I'll try the CA. The tenon broke off without any pressure on it, so the shellac won't be enough.

Sourwood! Calling @Michael Anderson.

I have white oak, walnut, sassafras, and persimmon on the ground. I'll come over and help, though.
 
Michael Anderson said:
Looking good Kent!!!

And oh yeah @John K Jordan knows I’m eyeing his big pasture Sourwood. Like candy haha
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Don't remember how big of diameter the one I need to take out is. It's in the way when I drive the tractor/skid steer on one trail.

I started checking out Sourwood trees years ago for the honey possibilities. I saw a lot in the area, watched the flowers with binocs, never saw a single honeybee at the flowers. A friend said the only way to get sourwood honey is to haul the hives up into the mountains in areas where sourwood is about the only thing blooming. He took several trailers full of hives every year.

I haven't look around but if there are bigger sourwood we can cut them too.
I have WAY too many trees. Winter is the best time to fell and process live trees. If you come when it's cold, we can look around and see what might be useful. I do know there's a good sized cherry on the edge of a field that REALLY needs to be dropped, someone with a chainsaw and experience. I can pull with the skid steer.

I also have a small grove of dead sassafras which need to come down. I might dig up and push over a couple to see of the wood is worth anything.

BTW, the problem with logs on the ground now when it's warm is many species are very quick to be infested with bugs AND lighter wood can quickly turn ugly from fungal staining - I've had maple, holly, and even persimmon do that.. In some areas they prefer to fell trees when the wood is frozen, but that's prob not going to happen around here!

I recently dug up a big dead dogwood stump from a neighbor's yard. The last time I did that I got some of the most beautiful spalted dogwood blanks ever, zone lines, color. Need to pressure wash this one, cut & see what's inside.

JKJ
 
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