David Fried
01-17-2005, 5:42 PM
This time I found a whole spalted tree, cut up, at the dump. :D I grabbed a dozen logs, which are still in the back of the car. Tuesday, when the dump is open again, I'll go back get some more.
I cut one piece up to see what it looked like. The first photo shows a piece 1.5 x 1.5 x 17 inches with a smaller pen blank sized piece on top. I wet the dark area to see what it looked like.
The second photo shows the pen I turned from it and a different side of the larger piece. I planed down the rough surface left by my bandsaw to get a better look. I measured and weighed the piece and it seems to work out to about 41 lbs/ft-cubed. This puts it in the heavy weight catagory with oak, cherry, etc. Comparing it to the samples in a book I borrowed from the library it seems to have many the characteristics of Cherry but I'm not sure.
Any thoughts? :confused:
I cut one piece up to see what it looked like. The first photo shows a piece 1.5 x 1.5 x 17 inches with a smaller pen blank sized piece on top. I wet the dark area to see what it looked like.
The second photo shows the pen I turned from it and a different side of the larger piece. I planed down the rough surface left by my bandsaw to get a better look. I measured and weighed the piece and it seems to work out to about 41 lbs/ft-cubed. This puts it in the heavy weight catagory with oak, cherry, etc. Comparing it to the samples in a book I borrowed from the library it seems to have many the characteristics of Cherry but I'm not sure.
Any thoughts? :confused: