Worm Track Wood Projects - Oak, Ash, Cherry

[Justin Dreier]

I've come accross a good deal of rough sawn wood that has been air dried, stickered and stored in a farm machine shed for 20 years. I planed down a bunch of it and 75% of it has visible worm tracks in it.

It's solid wood. Would appreciate your sharing pictures of your projects made with wormy wood or wood tracks. I'm trying to figure out what things I might be able to do with this wood. examples, picture frames, antiquish furniture pieces, etc.

Again, the wood is Red Oak, Ash, Cherry and Walnut.

Thanks, Justin

[Gary Breckenridge]

Buy 200 bd.ft. and ship it to me.:D Using it for antique reproductions comes to mind. Think old fashioned or folk art. I've made a few boxes with wormy wood and been quite pleased with the results. Linseed oil and beeswax makes a nice finish and a bit of rounding off and distressing only adds to the project.:D A crown molding picture frame sound good. The cherry will take a bit of time to pick up the patina of age. Make sure you update us as this goes along.

[Mack Cameron]

This Chip Carving is done in Wormy Butternut, by yours truly.

[Russ Filtz]

With air dried do you have to worry about the worms (powder post beetles?) still being in there?

[Mack Cameron]

Life Cycle: The adult beetles emerge in the spring, mate and begin laying eggs immediately. Females lay 20 to 60 eggs on bare wood surfaces, or inside previous emergence holes in finished wood. The larvae hatch out in 6 - 10 days and immediately tunnel into the wood. The larval stage will last 2 to 10years. Furniture beetles pupate near the surface of the wood and chew their way out to mate.

I took the above from a Powder Post Beetle site from Google. While I haven't seen any signs of them on/in my carving, if you are really worried it would probably be best to have the wood kiln dried.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

I have a whole room that is coffer-panneled in wormwood Chestnut.

[Justin Dreier]

Mack - Nice work on the carving. I don't have that level of talent. Wish I did. :cool:

Thought I would share some pics of the wood to give a better idea of what there is to work with. Looking for thoughts on what should be done with this wood. The pictures would not upload, so I pasted in links to the pictures online. I think this is ok per forum rules?

Here is a picture of the stack I have left to go through and plane.

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood_Pile.JPG

Here is a pic of a few sticks already planed

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood_upright.JPG

Here is a pic of some wood with the worst of the powder post beetle activity.

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood_Lots_of_Worms.JPG

here is what the majority of the wood looks like after planing.

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood_majority.JPG

A few mor links to pics of the wood

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood1.JPG

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood2.JPG

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood3.JPG

Some wood with many exit marks from PPBs.

http://www.woodworking-galleries.org/pp/data/2/medium/Wood4.JPG