I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years. Many
are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but it
is my all time favorite.
For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
streaks of pink, purple and blue.
max
Pussy Willow.
SH
"max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
>I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
>Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
> it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
>
Howdy!
In article <BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]>,
max <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years. Many
>are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
Cherry. It works nicely and it is nice to look at.
Ash and maple are nice too, but my favorite to *work* with is cherry.
yours,
Michael
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"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Walnut for its beauty and ease to work with. Oak for its forgivingness.
>
>
> "max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
> >I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
> >Many
> > are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> > My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
> > it
> > is my all time favorite.
> > For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> > streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> > max
> >
Mesquite. It's hard as hell and somewhat hard on tools but finishes
very nice. And the scraps make excellent fuel for dutch oven cooking.
Fred
max wrote:
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
> Many are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
Without a doubt, walnut, walnut, walnut!
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In news:max <[email protected]> typed:
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
> Many are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
> it is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
I like Thuya Burl, Amboyna Burl and Snakewood used in combination with
ebony.
--
Ted Harris
Walnut and mahogany are my favorites too. My only complaint with walnut is
the dust. My only complaint with mahogany is the cost.
For turning though, what little I've done, I have to say my favorite is
really wet sycamore. That stuff flies off like silly string when it's
freshly harvested!
"Kevin Daly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> To work with, especially on the scroll saw it's a toss-up between walnut
and
> mahogany. To look at would have to be tiger maple.
>
> Kevin Daly
> http://hometown.aol.com/kdaly10475/page1.html
max <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]>...
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years. Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
I have worked with osage orange, maple, red oak, holly, paduak,
cocobolo, honey locust, and cherry. For looks and strength, honey
locust is the best wood I've worked with by a landslide. The sapwood
is a bright yellow, and the highly figured heartwood ranges from light
brown to brown with streaks of pink, purple and deep burgundy. I live
in ohio, where the honey locust is plentiful and had about 60 bf,
milled from 2 logs my brother in law cut. If you ever come across
this wood, don't hesitate to grab it. I may have a chance at close to
1000 bf of this in a few years, which I would consider milling into
extraordinary flooring.
charlie b <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Chris Hornberger wrote:
> snip
>
> > > For looks and strength, honey
> > > locust is the best wood I've worked with by a landslide. The sapwood
> > > is a bright yellow, and the highly figured heartwood ranges from light
> > > brown to brown with streaks of pink, purple and deep burgundy. I live
> > > in ohio, where the honey locust is plentiful and had about 60 bf,
> > > milled from 2 logs my brother in law cut. If you ever come across
> > > this wood, don't hesitate to grab it. I may have a chance at close to
> > > 1000 bf of this in a few years, which I would consider milling into
> > > extraordinary flooring.
> >
> > Sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures of your stock or things you've
> > done in it?
>
> I've got a bunch of what I was told was either honey or black locust.
> Here's a pair of coopered doors - with coats of garnet shellac
> so the color's been changed. There are really nice areas with
> chatoyancy (the thing a tigereye stone exhibits) which make
> the finished surface interesting as you move around it.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/CooperedDoors/CooperedDoors0.htm
>
> It looks more like the image of Robina (robinia pseudocacacia) aka
> black lucust, yellow locust rather than Mesquite (prosops juliflora)
> aka honey locust, ironwood, algaroba, honeypod, honey mesquite) in
> Terry Potter's Wood Identification & Use book. I'm guessing that
> it's not Mesquite since I've got a a lot of 10 - 14 inch wide boards
> of all heartwood.
>
> charlie b
Hard telling from that picture, though I sure like the curves in that
design.
Here is a nice link showing the difference between the two woods.
http://www.lehighvalleywoodturners.org/the-locusts.html
I have some stunning pictures of my own I will post in a day or so
showing honey locust.
charlie b <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Chris Hornberger wrote:
> snip
>
> > > For looks and strength, honey
> > > locust is the best wood I've worked with by a landslide. The sapwood
> > > is a bright yellow, and the highly figured heartwood ranges from light
> > > brown to brown with streaks of pink, purple and deep burgundy. I live
> > > in ohio, where the honey locust is plentiful and had about 60 bf,
> > > milled from 2 logs my brother in law cut. If you ever come across
> > > this wood, don't hesitate to grab it. I may have a chance at close to
> > > 1000 bf of this in a few years, which I would consider milling into
> > > extraordinary flooring.
> >
> > Sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures of your stock or things you've
> > done in it?
>
> I've got a bunch of what I was told was either honey or black locust.
> Here's a pair of coopered doors - with coats of garnet shellac
> so the color's been changed. There are really nice areas with
> chatoyancy (the thing a tigereye stone exhibits) which make
> the finished surface interesting as you move around it.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/CooperedDoors/CooperedDoors0.htm
>
> It looks more like the image of Robina (robinia pseudocacacia) aka
> black lucust, yellow locust rather than Mesquite (prosops juliflora)
> aka honey locust, ironwood, algaroba, honeypod, honey mesquite) in
> Terry Potter's Wood Identification & Use book. I'm guessing that
> it's not Mesquite since I've got a a lot of 10 - 14 inch wide boards
> of all heartwood.
>
> charlie b
Here are some pictures of honey locust in my shop. I am making a
jewelry box, and several pictures show the mosiac top, framed with a
wild grained honey locust. Other pictures demonstrate the beautiful
figure and color of this wood.
http://www.gocleansweep.com/honeylocust/Page.html
enjoy
"Chris Hornberger" <chris@no_spam.chornbe.com> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "todd the wood junkie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > I have worked with osage orange, maple, red oak, holly, paduak,
> > cocobolo, honey locust, and cherry. For looks and strength, honey
> > locust is the best wood I've worked with by a landslide. The sapwood
> > is a bright yellow, and the highly figured heartwood ranges from light
> > brown to brown with streaks of pink, purple and deep burgundy. I live
> > in ohio, where the honey locust is plentiful and had about 60 bf,
> > milled from 2 logs my brother in law cut. If you ever come across
> > this wood, don't hesitate to grab it. I may have a chance at close to
> > 1000 bf of this in a few years, which I would consider milling into
> > extraordinary flooring.
>
> Sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures of your stock or things you've
> done in it?
Here are some pictures of honey locust in my shop. I am making a
jewelry box, and several pictures show the mosiac top, framed with a
wild grained honey locust. Other pictures demonstrate the beautiful
figure and color of this wood.
http://www.gocleansweep.com/honeylocust/Page.html
enjoy
Maple
Mahogany
Walnut
Oak
Purpleheart
Birch
Cherry
Oh heck, I like 'em all!
Dave
"max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
>I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
>Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
> it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
>
Chris Hornberger wrote:
snip
> > For looks and strength, honey
> > locust is the best wood I've worked with by a landslide. The sapwood
> > is a bright yellow, and the highly figured heartwood ranges from light
> > brown to brown with streaks of pink, purple and deep burgundy. I live
> > in ohio, where the honey locust is plentiful and had about 60 bf,
> > milled from 2 logs my brother in law cut. If you ever come across
> > this wood, don't hesitate to grab it. I may have a chance at close to
> > 1000 bf of this in a few years, which I would consider milling into
> > extraordinary flooring.
>
> Sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures of your stock or things you've
> done in it?
I've got a bunch of what I was told was either honey or black locust.
Here's a pair of coopered doors - with coats of garnet shellac
so the color's been changed. There are really nice areas with
chatoyancy (the thing a tigereye stone exhibits) which make
the finished surface interesting as you move around it.
http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/CooperedDoors/CooperedDoors0.htm
It looks more like the image of Robina (robinia pseudocacacia) aka
black lucust, yellow locust rather than Mesquite (prosops juliflora)
aka honey locust, ironwood, algaroba, honeypod, honey mesquite) in
Terry Potter's Wood Identification & Use book. I'm guessing that
it's not Mesquite since I've got a a lot of 10 - 14 inch wide boards
of all heartwood.
charlie b
Cherry. Works easily, polishes a treat, even smells good when you're
working it.
Oh yes, does a nice Lake Superior salmon in the smoker, too,
"Fred Miner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> > Walnut for its beauty and ease to work with. Oak for its forgivingness.
> >
> >
> > "max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
> > >I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
> > >Many
> > > are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> > > My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with
but
> > > it
> > > is my all time favorite.
> > > For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood
with
> > > streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> > > max
> > >
>
> Mesquite. It's hard as hell and somewhat hard on tools but finishes
> very nice. And the scraps make excellent fuel for dutch oven cooking.
>
> Fred
Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 4:55am (EST+5) [email protected] (max) asks?:
<snip> Which woods are your favorite to work with. <snip>
No brainer. Free wood.
So far, this includes:
Holly, dogwood, hickory, oak, poplar, pine, Spanish cedar, Philippine
mahogany, teak, and a number of others I'm not sure of. This doesn't
include plywood, which I have gotten free at times, but usually buy.
JOAT
Viet Nam, divorce, cancer. Been there, done that. Now, where the Hell
are my T-shirts?
> I like Thuya Burl, Amboyna Burl and Snakewood used in combination with
> ebony.
As a beginner, I prefer beech (I'm in Europe). It's easy to work with,
and it's affordable. I do make mistakes sometimes and I'd hate wasting
exotic woods...
As for the looks I really like wenge, it's becoming very fashionable
over here.
Marton
Anything free. In my case, all the wood sitting in piles in my yard -
probably 15,000 board feet of it.
Jon E
"max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
>
max <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]>...
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years. Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
That strikes me as an odd question. My favorite wood tends to be the
wood that fits a particular project (unless it is on the short list of
woods I hate to work). When the wood fits the project the result will
be pleasing in it's own way. When the wood competes with the design
aspect both end up losing.
hex
-30-
"todd the wood junkie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I have worked with osage orange, maple, red oak, holly, paduak,
> cocobolo, honey locust, and cherry. For looks and strength, honey
> locust is the best wood I've worked with by a landslide. The sapwood
> is a bright yellow, and the highly figured heartwood ranges from light
> brown to brown with streaks of pink, purple and deep burgundy. I live
> in ohio, where the honey locust is plentiful and had about 60 bf,
> milled from 2 logs my brother in law cut. If you ever come across
> this wood, don't hesitate to grab it. I may have a chance at close to
> 1000 bf of this in a few years, which I would consider milling into
> extraordinary flooring.
Sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures of your stock or things you've
done in it?
Walnut for its beauty and ease to work with. Oak for its forgivingness.
"max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
>I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
>Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
> it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
>
On 10 Nov 2004 16:06:54 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
calmly ranted:
>Leon responds:
>
>>Walnut for its beauty and ease to work with. Oak for its forgivingness.
>
>Good choices. I also like cherry for its beauty, osage orange for its color,
>mesquite for its variety, poplar for its ease of working, locust for its
>general utility and its surprise, QS sycamore for both beauty and workability,
>cedar (red) for its aroma...and others for other reasons.
Walnut and mahogany work well with hand tools and smell GREAT.
I love this jarrah, too, but the red dust is driving me nuts.
>"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence
>clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
>hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken
Mencken's thoughts have been entirely taken to heart by THIS
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Larry Jaques responds:
>
>>"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
>hence
>>clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
>>hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken
>
>Mencken's thoughts have been entirely taken to heart by THIS
>admin, wot?
Truly.
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of
office." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Charlie Self
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of
common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever
ineligible for public office." H. L. Mencken
Leon responds:
>Walnut for its beauty and ease to work with. Oak for its forgivingness.
Good choices. I also like cherry for its beauty, osage orange for its color,
mesquite for its variety, poplar for its ease of working, locust for its
general utility and its surprise, QS sycamore for both beauty and workability,
cedar (red) for its aroma...and others for other reasons.
Charlie Self
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence
clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken
Nova <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> "Jon Endres, PE" wrote:
>
>> Anything free. In my case, all the wood sitting in piles in my yard -
>> probably 15,000 board feet of it.
>>
>> Jon E
>
> I agree. What was your address again Jon? ;-)
>
It would be free to Jack, but I believe Jon has a fair amount of sweat and
capital invested in that pile.
If not, then maybe he SHOULD freely share with each of us!
Patriarch
"max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
>I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
>Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
I've worked with a half dozen varieties. Need to try another half dozen or
so before I decide. Don't laugh, I still like working with pine but cherry
is still the nicest to finish.
Ed.
max <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]>...
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years. Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
There are few things (if any) in the woodshop that smell as good as
cutting walnut. It's a sweet, smoky, woody smell that is very
distinctive.
But for woods to "work with", I prefer red oak. I build (or try to
build...) a lot of mission-style stuff, and I'm a traditionalist...of
course if I was a strict traditionalist I'd go with quarter sawn, but
I'll save that for when my skills have improved.
Jim
Cherry. I love the way it turns to glass even BEFORE I put the finish on.
And after that, it keeps getting better and better.
- Owen -
"max" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]...
> I have worked with many domestic and exotic woods in the last 20 years.
Many
> are special to me. Which woods are your favorite to work with.
> My favorite domestic is vertical grain fir. It is a bear to work with but
it
> is my all time favorite.
> For exotics, I think Tulipwood is my favorite. It is a whitish wood with
> streaks of pink, purple and blue.
> max
>
max <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]>...
> Which woods are your favorite to work with.
Cherry by far. I love the way it works, I love the figure and I love
the way it looks after a year or so.
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Ron) wrote:
> max <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:<BDB6DFF8.32207%[email protected]>...
> > Which woods are your favorite to work with.
>
> Cherry by far. I love the way it works, I love the figure and I love
> the way it looks after a year or so.
I even love the way it smells. Cherry, for me, # 1 by far.
Stability, finishability, machinability second to none.
Many will agree and disagree. And THAT is exactly the reason God gave us
so many different trees to choose from. <G>
Rob
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:48:51 -0800, charlie b <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I've got a bunch of what I was told was either honey or black locust.
(URL correction)
>http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/CooperedDoors/CooperedDoors0.html
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:39:18 -0800, "TeamCasa" <[email protected]>
scribbled:
>Maple
>Mahogany
>Walnut
>Oak
>Purpleheart
I hate purpleheart. Harder than stone, dulls your tools quickly,
splinters more than red oak or doug fir, splinters in your hands
fester worse than red cedar. But the colour sure is purty, according
to the LOML.
>Birch
>Cherry
>
>Oh heck, I like 'em all!
>
Luigi
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