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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

Try mdstubbs@paulbunyan.net

or

his website www.pinewoodforge.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Apple wood


> You might also ask Del Stubbs about his experiences using fruit wood.  He
and his wife are both very accomplished carvers/turners. -- Sam Brungardt,
St. Paul, Minn. (USDA zone 4b)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Bell [mailto:acbell@iastate.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:35 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple wood
>
>
> At 06:15 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
>
> >    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.
>
> Fruit wood isn't really commonly used for woodworking, but people use it
on
> occasion.  Mostly, it is hard to get, and it is small.  If the tree dies
or
> is replaced when it is 8" in diameter, you aren't going to get a lot of
> lumber out of it.  Also, most trees grown for fruit are pruned and spread
> to allow for good light penetration, etc.  Most are dwarf with low
> limbs.  This doesn't tend to yield much lumber.
>
> All this being said, Mario Rodriguez, one of the woodworking handtool
> gurus, did a beautiful clock out of pear wood in an article a few years
> ago.  Had me looking for pear wood, but it's not easy to find in hardwood
> lumber stores.
>
> Didn't really answer your question, did I :)
>
>
> -- Andrew Bell
> acbell@iastate.edu
>
>
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