Mulberry from my church

[Dario]

This weekend I picked up a mulberry branch trimming at my church (San Jose Mission Church). Not sure how old these are but they are rather small...3.5" dia. There are a few nice figured ones though and I will make a couple pens for the Friars.

I milled them oversized in case they warp but they didn't much...some did crack/check though. Hope CA can take care of it.

Here are my favorites which are about ready to be turned after going through 2 days of microwave drying...

 

[gketell]

Man, those are gorgeous!!!
GK

 

[stevers]

Very nice Dario. I had no idea mullberry could look that good. I trim mullberry all the time and have never seen anything like that. I'm going to have to start looking closer.

 

[LostintheWoods]

That's some pretty "found" wood, Dario. I've paid good prices for blanks that weren't that nice......And so have you, I'll bet!

 

[Ligget]

Great blanks Dario, will make some fantastic pens.[]

 

[wudnhed]

I have been after LOML to trim our Mulberries for 3 years, maybe he'll finally do it next year. Too late this year already. Those are really pretty Dario.

 

[alamocdc]

WOW!!! That's some great looking Mulberry! Mine looks nothing like that![:0]

 

[wdcav1952]

You haven't lost your eye for beautiful wood, Dario!

 

[Rojo22]

That is some nice stuff!

 

[pete00]

wow, great looking ,
I cut my tree down a couple of years ago....too messsy with all the berries......dumb !!![:0]

 

[Dario]

I wasn't paying attention to it actually until I saw the cut end. The colors grabbed me right away. It is hard even when green ...not sure how hard it will get when totally dried.

As I said (and can be seen on the pics) I had cracking issues...that is probably due to the fact that these were cut at the worst possible time (Spring). It was full with new leaves and berries when I found it.

As rough as the cuts are...I can tell this wood have chatoyance. I wonder how nice older/matured wood are. Another wood to watch out for (atleast for me [])