I still have masses to learn, but I have noticed that most turners seem to use the more exotic, hardwoods, I may be wrong but you never seem to see any of the more common and garden woods, is it because these are less attractive and harder to turn and finish, or are they harder to come by?,or do people not want those woods to buy. By lesser I mean would like Loquat, Red Bud, Chinese Tallow, Bradford Pear to name but a few, these sort of very common woods,
Being new like everyone else who is new I just collected any wood I can find, a lot of it being common wood some types I can understand not being used, ie Hackberry and stuff like that, I turned some Chinese Tallow very insipid and boring, but from the same piece of limb I de- barked, and sealed some pieces, after some 8 weeks it had started to spalt , so I turned a piece, and I just could not believe the difference, doesn't look the same wood, I attach a pic of both pieces side by side,the spalted piece being on the rhs.
Its just an observation I have made, and not meant to offend.
regards peter
Darn, wish I knew why this is so big in the Forum????
Being new like everyone else who is new I just collected any wood I can find, a lot of it being common wood some types I can understand not being used, ie Hackberry and stuff like that, I turned some Chinese Tallow very insipid and boring, but from the same piece of limb I de- barked, and sealed some pieces, after some 8 weeks it had started to spalt , so I turned a piece, and I just could not believe the difference, doesn't look the same wood, I attach a pic of both pieces side by side,the spalted piece being on the rhs.
Its just an observation I have made, and not meant to offend.
regards peter
Darn, wish I knew why this is so big in the Forum????
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