FOG wood ID?

[Sam Fleisher]

"Found On Ground" wood, Is it mulberry or possible elm?

I'm leaning towards mulberry. It's wet and not very big, just an experiment to see if it will survive without cracking. Dog dish that turned nice. Total actual turning time was less than the time it took to change the jaws on a chuck. I think I need another chuck to cut down on that irritation.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

I think you are right Sam, but it looks like there are already some checks/splits in it, Mulberry has always been a difficult wood for me to dry without splitting, need ample time doing that drying ;-)

Here is a smaller Mulberry bowl that shows the checking in the sapwood that I would sometimes get.

 

[Sam Fleisher]

Did the little ones you show get any bigger?

I was more concerned with the rim checking. The lines shown on mine were there when I turned it so nothing I could do about turning them away. If they stay down there and not let light through I'll consider the experiment a success.

This was literally picked up out of a ditch by my buddy that thinks I need every piece of wood he sees. I think it had been cut with a rotary tree weed Wacker that the county uses to make toothpicks. It was a mess and I was tuning the bandsaw so it got squared up and then turned because I hadn't made a bowl in a couple of days and was getting withdrawals.

I'll just have to keep one side facing a wall. Here's the other side .

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

No those checks are like that after the bowl had dried and never got bigger, I find that the wood is quite stable after is has dried, it is just the getting to that state that can be tricky