joerobson Posted January 23, 2016 Report Posted January 23, 2016 I don't doubt that yours is boxwood too Wolfjk, but the few bits I have look different. Joe's piece looks big for some reason, but if that's a mug mark beside it, maybe it's just about four inches. It is about 4 1/2 inches wide, 11 inches long and 1 1/2 inches deep in the middle. Weighs 2 pounds 2 ounces.
Jim Bress Posted January 23, 2016 Report Posted January 23, 2016 I missed the coffee ring for scale. I still wouldn't have got it right because I'm not familiar with box-wood wood. Although I have lots of dwarf bushes around the house because white-tailed deer won't eat them. We have lots of deer.
Stephen Faulk Posted January 23, 2016 Report Posted January 23, 2016 I thought you were switching careers to making fine hand turned wooden dry flies. Wenge. MeyerFittings, on 16 Jan 2016 - 03:16 AM, said: . OK, the first peg is indeed pernambuco turned with the grain going horizontally to the shaft. It was just an experiment, and I was "as blown away as the shaft" to see the results. Looks like a cat tossed in the dog pound. Shows you how directional the fibers are for that wood.
Wolfjk Posted January 23, 2016 Report Posted January 23, 2016 I don't doubt that yours is boxwood too Wolfjk, but the few bits I have look different. Joe's piece looks big for some reason, but if that's a mug mark beside it, maybe it's just about four inches. Hi Conor, In the old days evergreen trees and plant were preserved and sometimes even worshipped! There must have been really ancient boxwood trees around churches and stately homes. I got one trunk and half of another that stood outside an old mansion that was domolished in the 1970s. I still got a boxwood board two feet by eight inches. The trunk was about 10''(250mm diameter)
Conor Russell Posted January 23, 2016 Report Posted January 23, 2016 Fantastic. There must have been so many more trees once. Think of all the odds and ends tat were made from it. My neighbours have a very old tree. If memory serves it has about an eight inch trunk, but it's not very tall. Have you counted the age of your widest plank?
Jim Bress Posted January 23, 2016 Report Posted January 23, 2016 My father-in-law is having me cut down a dogwood tree (Cornus florida). It's unusual for a dog wood because it has been growing among a tight grouping of oaks that has forced to have a very upright growth pattern. Tree has about 15-20 feet nearly straight wood ~ 8-10 inches in diameter. Has anybody used dogwood for fittings? -Jim
Violadamore Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 My father-in-law is having me cut down a dogwood tree (Cornus florida). It's unusual for a dog wood because it has been growing among a tight grouping of oaks that has forced to have a very upright growth pattern. Tree has about 15-20 feet nearly straight wood ~ 8-10 inches in diameter. Has anybody used dogwood for fittings? -Jim You should talk him out of this and thin the oaks.
Jim Bress Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 This clump of trees is about 6 feet from his sun room (3 season room). The oaks are chestnut oaks and are very prolific, and he has deemed them a tripping hazard. They really are. He's decided get rid of the whole group so he's not loosing his balance on the acorns or having them bonk him in the head. It will also give him a view of the river. He's 82, I pick my battles. He's reached the stage where he doesn't need to make many compromises. If there are all going to go I thought the dogwood might be something nice to have. I don't have room or the inclination to try and season the oak.
Violadamore Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 This clump of trees is about 6 feet from his sun room (3 season room). The oaks are chestnut oaks and are very prolific, and he has deemed them a tripping hazard. They really are. He's decided get rid of the whole group so he's not loosing his balance on the acorns or having them bonk him in the head. It will also give him a view of the river. He's 82, I pick my battles. He's reached the stage where he doesn't need to make many compromises. If there are all going to go I thought the dogwood might be something nice to have. I don't have room or the inclination to try and season the oak. Good luck, then. You'll find it's really exceptionally hard and dulls saw blades quickly. It's good for mallets and such, so it ought to make decent fittings, but it doesn't carve easily. I really like the flowers in Spring.
Wolfjk Posted January 24, 2016 Report Posted January 24, 2016 Fantastic. There must have been so many more trees once. Think of all the odds and ends tat were made from it. My neighbours have a very old tree. If memory serves it has about an eight inch trunk, but it's not very tall. Have you counted the age of your widest plank? I could not count that far! It is difficult to count year rings on boxwood. In England it has fits and starts of growing even in winter. The heartwood in some old trees - box, ash, cherry- become homogenous and loose the annual rings. The top wood in the photo is from an old cherry tree. It has no annual rings but rock hard and quite bendable.
joerobson Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 Here we go again. The dark sample is quite rare. The light sample not so rare.
joerobson Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 Here we go again. The dark sample is quite rare. The light sample not so rare.
uncle duke Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 A little closer would help Mr. Robson. Honduran mahogany? and Lime/lemon?. I can't really tell.
Violadamore Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 IMHO, the dark one is Brazilian rosewood. Assuming the cross stripes are saw marks, the light one could be sweet gum (Liquidambar), which amounts to a weed around here. Being soft, light, light colored, free splitting, and fine grained, as well as abundant, I use it for a lot of things willow and poplar are good for.
joerobson Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 IMHO, the dark one is Brazilian rosewood. Assuming the cross stripes are saw marks, the light one could be sweet gum (Liquidambar), which amounts to a weed around here. Being soft, light, light colored, free splitting, and fine grained, as well as abundant, I use it for a lot of things willow and poplar are good for. sorry...on both
Violadamore Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 sorry...on both At least I'm consistent.
Addie Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 African blackwood and soft maple (box elder?).
Addie Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 If it's not box elder it's tulip poplar.
MeyerFittings Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Posted January 30, 2016 First one looks like old growth East Indian at least some kind of dalbergia VDA. Second looks like Holly with the bluing.
MeyerFittings Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Posted January 30, 2016 At least put some spit on it Joe!
Violadamore Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 First one looks like old growth East Indian at least some kind of dalbergia VDA. Second looks like Holly with the bluing. Yup, but I'm not guessing my way through the genus. With the deep and nasty saw cuts, i'm wondering if the second might be balsa.
joerobson Posted January 30, 2016 Report Posted January 30, 2016 First one looks like old growth East Indian at least some kind of dalbergia VDA. Second looks like Holly with the bluing.That's a bingo on the Holly....English Holly. Yes on the Dalbirgieae. Spit in the morning!
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