Fruit and Nut Series

[cmiller]

Hello friends, I don't know if this idea is inspired or just weird: One day I counted eight species of wood in my garage that grew fruit or nuts. Added a mango blank from the Woodcrafter store, a plum branch from someone in town, persimmon from @EricRorabaugh and chestnut from @Charder Creations LLC, and that's a pretty respectable collection of 12.

Attached is a photo of the blanks, I'll post the series when I'm done. I don't expect to learn anything, but I'll let you know if I do!

 

[PatrickR]

cool idea. l'm sure that there are many, many more you could add. Our persimmon trees are a true ebony, most of the common ebonies produce persimmon type fruits. grape vine is another one that makes nice pens.

 

[MedWoodWorx]

these blanks look promising!

 

[qquake]

I like it! A friend gave me a chunk of wood from her apple tree, and it was really nice.

 

[montmill]

Fruit wood tends to crack quickly for me, but I still work to get some useable. It's really pretty, it sounds like a neat project.

 

[cmiller]

I like it! A friend gave me a chunk of wood from her apple tree, and it was really nice.

Very nice, Jim. Apple is one of my favorites, I turned the one attached and couldn't believe it was actually wood!

 

[cmiller]

cool idea. l'm sure that there are many, many more you could add. Our persimmon trees are a true ebony, most of the common ebonies produce persimmon type fruits. grape vine is another one that makes nice pens.

Hi Patrick, I'm hoping to add more. I hadn't thought of grape. I read about persimmon being a species of ebony, that surprised me. The pieces I got are pretty soft, the blank above was barely turnable. But it made a pretty nice pen, you'll see when I post results!

 

[QuillandQuiver]

That's great idea for a theme!

 

[cmiller]

Results attached. Is there a way to pin this post to the top of the thread?
New favorite: mango, really interesting patterns and grain. Some parts of it look like a speckled trout
Old favorite: olive, always beautiful and turns so smoothly
Old favorite 2: apple, always full of features
Surprise: maybe shouldn't be a surprise, but plum wood has purple in it
Disappointed by: pear, kind of plain and dirty
Best kept secret: hazelnut, they're everywhere around here but farmers don't give out wood much, they usually have to burn it when it dies
Burning question: why don't you ever hear about orange wood? Oranges grow on trees, where does the wood end up?

 

[egnald]

Very Cool - It makes me want to do something like that too. I really like how you presented it side-by-side in the photo! - Dave

 

[PatrickR]

Pretty cool. you could go on and on. Most fruit trees are small so they don't yield boards thus they have no commercial value. You would have to seek out many of these and get pieces from individuals. I have some grape vine I'd be happy to send you but it is the wild kind, not really a producer of fruit. Orange, lemon, lime etc. could probably be gotten when people trim their trees.

 

[cmiller]

Pretty cool. you could go on and on. Most fruit trees are small so they don't yield boards thus they have no commercial value. You would have to seek out many of these and get pieces from individuals. I have some grape vine I'd be happy to send you but it is the wild kind, not really a producer of fruit. Orange, lemon, lime etc. could probably be gotten when people trim their trees.

Yeah, I figure this could go on and on. I'll be going to the U-Pick places this spring with some sinister motives...