Truck load of wood

[louisbry]

Yesterday I helped a member of my local woodworkers club fell a couple of hackberry trees that were crowding other trees. I came home with with a pickup load of hackberry and other species. My friend gave me a stash of yellow wood logs (smoketree), some sizable grapevine sections, three box elder logs and two large blocks of air dried honey locus. The hackberry is snow white but will obtain interesting colors if I can successfully spalt it.

Truck load of logs

Smoketree logs

Grapevine - pens?

 

[Kalai]

Hi Louis, nice load of wood, don't you just love wood[] Aloha.

Chris
kalai

 

[R2]

Don" let it catch fire. There's enough there to melt the fire engine.[][]

 

[ahoiberg]

man, that's some nice wood there... you can make a lot of cool stuff with that. i don't know if you do flatwork or not but i think it would be cool to mill one (or two) of the larger grapevine sections and make a decorative box or something... just an idea.

have fun. []

 

[papaturner]

Louis,you will really like the smoke tree,turns really nice very hard and finishes well. The grape vine, if it is any thing like muscadine (wild grape) will turn also however takes a little effort with extra sanding to get good finish. BTW good gloat.

Perry

 

[pentex]

I just made my son-in-law a pen from grapevine he had in his yard. I made a great looking pen. Really was easy to turn.

 

[ahoiberg]

whoops, i was looking at the wrong title for the picture! i wondered why there might be grapevine so large.. [:0]

the smoketree logs look they might be nice milled up... sorry for the confusion.