Nice Wood Right Here In My Backyard

[Duane]

Although I'm only a beginner I always thought it would be more logical to use readily available woods before branching out to the exotic/expensive stuff. Here's a few pics of nice wood I found right at work the other day...let me know what you think.

These two are old white birch...could be junk but could have some cool spalted look in there.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255/Wa...e/OldBirch2.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255/Wa...e/OldBirch1.jpg

Here's a freshly cut red maple...soft but makes nice turnings and has a nice feel to it.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255/Wa...ne/RedMaple.jpg

Here's a new freshly cut white birch that is a pretty impressive log which I sure has cool figure.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255/Wa...e/NiceBirch.jpg

Here's one of my woodpiles I was rooting around in, I found a few nice pieces in there.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255/Wa.../LotsOfWood.jpg

[Demiurge]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t255/Wa.../LotsOfWood.jpg

Nice, but I suppose you're a tad SOL if the piece you like the most is at the bottom.

[SwedishLuthier]

Birch can be, and has been, used as neck wood. No personal experience but another Swedish Luthier, Robban Sarhling, uses Birch on a regular basis and says that is has a sound similar to maple. Try it. It will probably work as good as other "tone wood". Remember the Taylor dumpster wood accoustic.

Edited March 6, 2007 by SwedishLuthier

[orgmorg]

Yellow birch is actually considerably stronger than hard maple, and can have some nice figure as well. It doesn't get a tight curl like maple, but rather a wider ripple which can look very dramatic if it has the contrasting heartwood and sapwood. Also, the heartwood of birch is usable as opposed to that of hard maple, which is not.

Is that really your backyard?

Can I come camp out for a few weeks..

with my Woodmizer?

[Jon]

Yellow birch is actually considerably stronger than hard maple, and can have some nice figure as well. It doesn't get a tight curl like maple, but rather a wider ripple which can look very dramatic if it has the contrasting heartwood and sapwood. Also, the heartwood of birch is usable as opposed to that of hard maple, which is not.

Is that really your backyard?

Can I come camp out for a few weeks..

with my Woodmizer?

Yeah, I'll assist.

[Duane]

No it's not my backyard, that's where I work. It certainly seems like home sometimes. Yellow birch is really nice, hard to split for firewood sometimes..well most of the time.