Texas Traveler
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Yes !! How about it? :greenchainsaw:
If got a 4 inch thick poison ivy vine out back. I wonder if it would make good veneer.
Oh well I have some poison oak vines that would make you some great TP
I guess if you lived in the West it would be, some of us are not so lucky to have maple, walnut, cherry & birch growing wild.Ouch.
Seriously, though, are American hardwoods considered exotic?
Manzanita is a little rare in upstate New York.
Shipping could be a real issue. Some of the slabs I've seen here would have to be shipped by truck. But I can see some possibilities. I'm building an octagonal sun room. I'm going to have some of the molding custom made or make it myself.
Lets see here... I have some Cherry, Red and White Oak, Walnut, Cedar,Elm and can get Locust and Hedge. All of the Hickory got burnt up in the stove this past winter.
Can you tell me a bit about sycamore?There are a few american domestic hardwoods that are considered somewhat exotic. Claro walnut, sycamore, osage orange, amercan holly and if you live in florida cuban mahogany are a few that come to mind. there are a few domestic soft woods that are also very desirable such as pacific yew, port orford cedar, and engleman spruce.
the list of exotics expands substantialy once you consider urban trees planted over the last hundred yaars. I have seen camphor, zalcovia, carob, lacewood, blackwood, english brown oak, japanese boxwood, chinese elm, english walnut. I am sure there are plenty more.
Then there is the aspect of making a common domestic exotic by how it is cut. Cherry is comonly available at most lumber yards but how many have 24" wide slabs of cherry?
Dustytools,
Do you have red elm? How does it look? Is it worwhile? I have access to a 42"+ red elm log that could be milled.
Hickory? We used "character grade" hickory for flooring in our new house. It looks good, but I would have preferred wider, or at least random widths.
What do I need to do to have my picture visible in the post without having to open a link to it ?
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