Free to a good home!!

[Steve Hooper]

I have some belts to trade or give away.
16 6x60 80 grit AL oxide. Carborundum # 31157

You pay the postage or come by the shop.

Cut down a large Persimmon tree two years ago. It's in 3 -4 foot lengths
and about 15" diameter at the base. It's beginning to spalt.

There is more than I have time to mess with, so if someone wants a bit, come by. I'll not mail it.



Steve

 

[McRabbet]

Suggest you send a PM to handturnedbowls about the persimmon tree as he is a turner that uses storm damaged trees for his bowl stock -- I'd take you up on the belts, but my stationary belt sander is a 6" x 48" and I have plenty of belts for it.

Rob

 

[JRD]

Steve,

I've no idea of what the grain and color look like in Persimmon wood. Do you, or anyone on the site have a photo of anything made from Persimmon?

I might have an interest in some for turning, if I had an idea of what it looks like and how easy or difficult it is to work.

Jim

 

[junquecol]

If you play golf, then you know what percimmon looks like. The heads on woods used to be made from percimmon.

 

[Mark Fogleman]

Steve,
You've got PM. I have visions of Krenov style cabinet doors! Anyone have a chainsaw lumber jig in the Charlotte/Greensboro area??
Mark

 

[NCPete]

My old driver thru 5 wood are made of persimmon (yes, I still play with them) if you want an idea of what persimmon looks like. IIRC, persimmon is a cousin of maple, and extremely hard.

 

[DaveO]

Actually Persimmon is more closely related to Ebony than Maple. Still very hard though:-D Maple is in the Aceraceae family while Persimmon (Disopyros virginiana/kaki) is in the Ebonaceae family. Sorry I am a botanical name/fact wasteland..I guess it has to do with my profession. Either way both woods would surely knock a ball well into the rough:BangHead:
Hence the reason I don't golf:eusa_doh:
Dave

 

[NCPete]

thank you. I am very effective at losing balls with the persimmons. They don't go very far compared to the metal woods I have hit, but they get the ball just as lost.

 

[chris99z71]

I could carve some new heads from the persimmon...or I could play with a 2x4. At my skill level it would make no difference.
Me playing golf is kinda like an easter egg hunt with Tourret's syndrome:lol:

 

[NCPete]

I figure I get much more for my money when I golf than the good players do. They don't get to see as much of the course as I do, or learn how to hit out of as many challenging locations. When they are shooting 70 and I shoot 105, I am having 150% the fun they get!

 

[Steve Hooper]

Once upon a time and in another Persimmon, I threw done on a slab with my .44 mag.

Was shooting a moderate load and a lead bullet from about 30 feet.

Half a dozen bullets bounced off the persimmon.

S

 

[DavidF]

Once upon a time and in another Persimmon, I threw done on a slab with my .44 mag.

Was shooting a moderate load and a lead bullet from about 30 feet.

Half a dozen bullets bounced off the persimmon.

S

Ah, wood working "Southern Style" you'll find a drill press easier:lol: