The municipal tree trimmers have gone by, and have been kind enough to leave the firewood size limbs four to eight inches in diameter. I would like to turn these as natural edge bowls and oil lamps. My problem is . . . with the limited experience that I have with natural edges, is there a treatment or tool process for green wood to keep the bark on the limb? I have turned Hickory for barbeque with limited success, usually the natural edge is the Cambium layer and not the bark.
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Fred, I've done it with apple and pecan, the logs/branches were air dried for several years first.
Ends were coated with paraffin when green.
The pecan had more bark separation than the apple.
I was turning lamps, not bowls.
Leon
trees cut in the winter hold on to their bark tenaciously, and trees cut in the spring lose their bark very easily. Bruce Hoadley's book talks about this, and I've seen it for myself that it's true. It has something to do with the fact that the tree's cambium layer is growing and delicate in the springtime and early summer.
That makes sense, the pecan was from a tree dropped in a neighbour's yard after an early spring storm.The apple was from one dropped in a friend's yard in late fall, after the leaves had fallen.Thanks,Leon
Pecan tree cost this old Soldier ALOT of my merger pay.. Hit one with my Tank Retriever and knocked it down.. geeee. Texas Open Range? at Fort Hood and I had to 'PAY' fer it! I forgets how much but I did not drink fer a few months! No extra money!
Ouch. Did you get to keep the wood?Leon
Will, Before my discharge from the U S Army in Germany, I had to pay for a tool box that had been run over by a truck while backing out of a grease pit. A %^&# welder in the motor pool sent some sparks down into the pit and ignited greasy rags and I shouted to the driver to back it out! Tried to convince the warrant officer, that I saved the Government plenty by saving the deuce and a half. Another dent in my pocketbook was when I tryed to back out a 2-1/2 ton truck out of a driveway between two brick pilasters at the entrance
to a Gasthaus. Funny, when I first drove it in it was not a prob?
Do you think maybe those two liters of Weisen bier I had
had anything to......Nah! Steinmetz
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