Have any of you successfully used milled canyon live oak for tool handles? Wheel-barrow, axes, hammers, etc.
If so, how did you process it? Trunk wood or branch wood?
The place I moved to has a ton of live oak, as well as Black Oak and Oregon White Oak (which I've read can also be suitable, though not ideal, for tool handles.) There's little to no yew around here, and locusts are also few and far between, mostly planted, not wild.
I'm getting the milling bug, but there's not much quality, clear fir around (at least not that needs to be cut), mostly meadow firs, which make crap-lumber aside from 2x's.
If so, how did you process it? Trunk wood or branch wood?
The place I moved to has a ton of live oak, as well as Black Oak and Oregon White Oak (which I've read can also be suitable, though not ideal, for tool handles.) There's little to no yew around here, and locusts are also few and far between, mostly planted, not wild.
I'm getting the milling bug, but there's not much quality, clear fir around (at least not that needs to be cut), mostly meadow firs, which make crap-lumber aside from 2x's.
