Isn't Juniper the same thing as Eastern Red Cedar?
rhg
Kevin wrote:
> I've turned a few bowls of, well perhaps not true cedar but juniper. Hey, it
> looked and smelled lilke cedar. The wood was rather soft and sharp tools
> were necessary. Nice coloration on the finished product.
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> "Major Canuk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>I have to cut down some cedars trees. They are about 20 feet tall and
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>>4 to 5 inch in diamater. If I ket it dry, would it be any good to turn on
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>>lathe? Has anyone ever done this? TIA
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turns ok but catches more easily than harder woods. respirator
necessary and the shop does smell good afterward. fished pieces are
conversation pieces due to the coloration.
BRuce
Major Canuk wrote:
> I have to cut down some cedars trees. They are about 20 feet tall and about
> 4 to 5 inch in diamater. If I ket it dry, would it be any good to turn on a
> lathe? Has anyone ever done this? TIA
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BRuce
Fri, May 28, 2004, 4:54pm [email protected] (Major=A0Canuk) has to
ask:
I have to cut down some cedars trees. They are about 20 feet tall and
about 4 to 5 inch in diamater. If I ket it dry, would it be any good to
turn on a lathe? Has anyone ever done this?
Like those guys said.
Never done it with cedar. Because I've not had any. Did with some
soft pine, about the same results. Made a handy, usable, light, mallet,
for wood carbing. I'd do it again.
My motto (one of 'em) is, if it's free wood take it, then figure
out what to do with it later. If someone gave me a chunk of balsa, I'd
be willing to try turning it, if I thought I wanted something turned out
of it. If it worked, great. If not, maybe I'd do better next time.
JOAT
"106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of
cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." - Elwood
"Hit it." - Joliet Jake
In article <[email protected]>, Robert Galloway
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Isn't Juniper the same thing as Eastern Red Cedar?
Juniper is a shrub, not a tree... at least here in Canada.
djb
Dave Balderstone notes:
>> Isn't Juniper the same thing as Eastern Red Cedar?
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>Juniper is a shrub, not a tree... at least here in Canada.
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Juniperus virginiana is eastern redcedar. Small tree, 20 to 50 feet, no more
than 2 feet in diameter, except on good soil. Biggest specimens are 4 feet in
diameter and more than 100 feet tall, but those trees are ancient. Aromatic
cedar. Works, turns and carves nicely (but plan for the knots). It can be
shrub-like and is a PITA in some pastures that don't get extensive use.
Charlie Self
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the
exercise of his mind." Jacques Barzun
Other things grow get stunted in that climate, too, eh?
Lots of different Juniperus spp. Eastern red cedar happens to be one.
What the op likely had, given climate, was eastern white - Thuja
occidentalis. Notice neither of these "cedars" are Cedrus spp ?
"Dave Balderstone" <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca> wrote in message
news:300520041929481945%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca...
> In article <[email protected]>, Robert Galloway
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Isn't Juniper the same thing as Eastern Red Cedar?
>
> Juniper is a shrub, not a tree... at least here in Canada.
>
> djb
I've turned a few bowls of, well perhaps not true cedar but juniper. Hey, it
looked and smelled lilke cedar. The wood was rather soft and sharp tools
were necessary. Nice coloration on the finished product.
"Major Canuk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have to cut down some cedars trees. They are about 20 feet tall and
about
> 4 to 5 inch in diamater. If I ket it dry, would it be any good to turn on
a
> lathe? Has anyone ever done this? TIA
>
>