Greetings,
Couple branches of the neighbor's weeping willow came down in a storm.
Tree folk say they need to take down the whole tree for safety's sake. I
look at lots of board feet of lumber on the hoof and wonder if it's worth
asking for some.
I understand that willow isn't very strong; I'd be carving it. (Kachinas
are carved from downed willow, BTW.) The Forest Products Lab book only
mentions Black Willow. The site http://www.wood-worker.com/properties.htm
doesn't mention willow at all.
Has anyone here played with weeping willow wood?
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Lewis Hartswick <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Australopithecus scobis wrote:
> > (Kachinas
> > are carved from downed willow, BTW.)
>
> > Has anyone here played with weeping willow wood?
>
> Some how I sort of doubt that. Probably more like Cotton wood.
> Most of the Willows in the South West are Globe willow, not
> weeping willow and those have been brought in by eastern
> "carpet baggers". :-)
> ...lew...
I am a Kachina collector and yes they are carved from Cottonwood,
mostly Cottonwood roots or atleast very low on the stump.
Fred
Australopithecus scobis wrote:
> (Kachinas
> are carved from downed willow, BTW.)
> Has anyone here played with weeping willow wood?
Some how I sort of doubt that. Probably more like Cotton wood.
Most of the Willows in the South West are Globe willow, not
weeping willow and those have been brought in by eastern
"carpet baggers". :-)
...lew...
Yep. It's soft, fuzzy, and weak like the entire family. As long as you
confine its use to such things where those are insignificant, it's pretty.
Would I pay more for cutting than the price of its brothers of the
aspen/cottonwood persuasion? Probably not much.
Kachinas are of cottonwood/willow, because that's about all that grows in
those river bottoms.
"Australopithecus scobis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Greetings,
> Couple branches of the neighbor's weeping willow came down in a storm.
> Tree folk say they need to take down the whole tree for safety's sake. I
> look at lots of board feet of lumber on the hoof and wonder if it's worth
> asking for some.
>
> I understand that willow isn't very strong; I'd be carving it. (Kachinas
> are carved from downed willow, BTW.) The Forest Products Lab book only
> mentions Black Willow. The site http://www.wood-worker.com/properties.htm
> doesn't mention willow at all.
>
> Has anyone here played with weeping willow wood?
>
> --
> "Keep your ass behind you"
>
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:32:00 GMT, Lewis Hartswick
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Most of the Willows in the South West are Globe willow, not
>weeping willow and those have been brought in by eastern
>"carpet baggers". :-)
According to one of my (UK) tree-spotting books, all the true
"weeping" willows are Salix alba v. Tristis. These are male clones,
grown from a single specimen in France at the start of the 19th
century.
There are of course other willows of rather similar shape.
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Smert' spamionam
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:00:06 -0400, George wrote:
> Kachinas are of cottonwood/willow, because that's about all that grows in
> those river bottoms.
Yah. I had my stupid hat on when I wrote that. Brain thought, "big tree,
grows by river." It forgot that it was located in WI, not AZ, at the time
it told my fingers what to type.
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"Keep your ass behind you"