I haven't made any significant progress on my end tables, and since I need to stop buying router bits for a while, I figured I'd pretend I might actually apply a finish one of these days.
I don't know much about finishing. I mean, I know the basics and what's available and some of the...
Hello turners..
I just picked up a bunch of green sycamore branches from our trees which were just trimmed. See photo. 1-3 inch diameter.
I have never turned anything green (and only turned one project dry...)
Thought it might be a fun experiment. Any thoughts? Words of advice or caution...
FYI.......for anyone interested, I'm going to be cutting down some of all the above and maybe an Oak or two over the course of the next few weekends; weather permitting of course. If you'll let me know what you require in the way of dimensions for turning stock or other uses, I'll try to keep...
Got a decent score today on some Walnut:eusa_danc and a line on some Sycamore of any of you want some. Don't have a whole lot of the Walnut as I'm keeping most of what I scarfed up. Brian and Dan came over this morning and we went "prospecting" on some stuff I'd scouted yesterday. We took the...
For those of you who inquired about KD QS Sycamore, I'll be stopping off at Harbor Freight in Raleigh, off Capital BLVD (US 1) this Sunday Jan 13th around 11:30 AM, on my way back home from Scott's Kiln. Just look for a butt ugly guy in the front store parking lot with a trailer and sycamore...
I rough turned this large green sycamore blank in January 07
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/753/thumbs/MOV00591.MPG
Soaked it in DNA and wrapped it up for drying But started new job and had to move
I got back to it Yesterday man this wood is hard but I enjoyed working with it...
Got a load of soft maple and sycamore coming in and wanted to see if there is any interest.
4/4 Sycamore will be Quarter Sawn to expose the ray flake and has some ambrosia markings price is $1.50 a BF
4/4 Maple will be flat sawn and also has some ambrosia markings. Price is $1.50 a BF Price...
Looking ahead and seeing if there is any interest in a 4/4 kiln dry QS Sycamore lumber run. I think I can manage a $3.25 ~ $3.50 a BF discounted NCWoodWorker members only price range. We could do natural edge one side like last run or I could do rough cut both edges. Scott tells me I'll need...
John (Stoneskipper) has been designing a coffee and end tables for us. They are made from the QS sycamore we got from Jeff and walnut. Instead of using biscuit joinery they are tongue and grooved. The legs will be walnut, curved and mortise and tenon through the table top. The coffee table will...
I had a person (name changed to protect the innocent) that committed to 1500 BF of KD QS Sycamore. The person was going to call me back and make final arrangements. Well that was several weeks ago and I'm not a pushy guy so I have not called them back. I figured something may have came up. I'm...
Since didn't know what sycamore looked like went searching and came up with these two sites:
Hardwood Handbook - Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association
A Guide to American Hardwood Species
One of our newer members Scott Smith and I have struck a deal that I think all of you will enjoy. I have access to logs at a good price and a sawmill to saw those logs. Scott has a kiln and is an experienced kiln operator, were 75 miles apart from each other. So we put our heads together earlier...