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  • From: "loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple wood
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:48:31 -0600

I have some rosybloom crabs that seem to produce rock rather than wood. The
wood is dense and reddish.

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Apple wood


> While pruning a tree with three varieties on it, I noticed that Liberty
> sprouts took noticeably more effort to cut than similar or even larger
> shoots of Holstein. Large shoots I could cut with hand pruners on the
> Holstein needed a saw on the Liberty. This made me wonder if anyone has
> evaluated the traits of the wood of various apples. Why, you ask?
> In "A Reverence For Wood" by Eric Sloane, he descibes how, in Colonial
> times, many things were made of apple wood because it was hard and durable
> when well cured. I tried that with some apple crotches of about an inch
in
> diameter and found that they were quite strong when cured and made very
good
> hooks for hanging clothes.
> The point of all this is to ask if there are any woodworkers/carvers
who
> have used apple, and if you have noted, as I did, variations according to
> the variety of apple.
> -Lon Rombough
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