Chasgroh wrote: : ...has anyone done work with apricot? I'm doing a renovation and : there's a dead apricot tree in the back yard that will get the : chainsaw treatment soon...it's got a thickish trunk (maybe 12" in : diameter) and several hefty limbs...there's a decent mill available as : I doin't have the bandsaw capability...
It's a superb turning wood. What it's like as lumber I don;t know, but I would imagine it's very close grained, and that can be nice in something like a jewelry box. If it were mine I'd keep some pieces for turning, cu the rest into boards and make something to remember the tree by.
-- Andy Barss