Domestic exotics

[J.B. Bobbitt]

Olive. Carolina cherry. Pepper

-JBB

[Unisaw A100]

Tom Watson wrote: complete and total snippage of the "lesser used" woods...

I'll add mulberry to that list if I may. Trouble is it starts out real nice looking but darkens a wee too much over time.

UA100

[nospam]

isn't that a contradiction of terms? Bridger

[Rico]

Sounds like a maid that doubles as a stripper.

Dick

[Steve Turner]

We've got a lot of those around here (Austin TX). I've always wondered what they'd look like on the inside.

[Silvan]

No, he said an exotic wood, not wood caused by an exotic.

[Silvan]

Sumac???

I find it hard to believe you can make anything out of that stuff. Dries like a sunflower stalk; all pith, and no wood.

I let one grow because I think sumac trees look sort of cool.

It grew 12' in the first year, then it sprouted suckers.

Now I'm trying to kill about 60 sumac weeds, and they won't die, no matter how many miles of roots I dig up.

If Charlie wants some of this shit, I can hook him up.

[Silvan]

Oleander. I hear it's beautiful. Toxic as hell though.

[Rodney Myrvaagnes]

For small boxes you could use fruitwoods from retired orchard trees, like apple and pear. Applewood is very nice, but usually comes in smallish logs with lots of bend and twist. But you could get out small pieces.

Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

For your upscale SUV: Dingle-balls hand knit of natural Icelandic yarn

[Steve Turner]

Honey Locust grows all over the place in Missouri (the state where I grew up). It loves the low-lying meadows and creek bottoms, down where the oaks start to thin out. I doubt that you'd find any of it being cut at the local mills though; you'd almost have to find someone who could go out and fetch some for you and have it milled.

Chinaberry is very common down here in Austin, but I don't know anybody who deals in it.

[Robert Bonomi]

The 'outstanding assets' are frequently imported, not grown locally.

[Alan McClure]

Smokewood Pieces are small, greenish yellow with brown stripes. I've only had one piece big enough to make a pen. Bigger pieces may exist, I've never seen the tree (bush?) I've got two pieces left that might make an unmatched pen. Wish I could find more!

ARM

[Charles A. Peavey]

Madrone anyone?

Charles

[David Babcock]

I've been hoarding some wormy chestnut for a special project, but try to find some live trees. I would also include Ash, Tiger Maple, Hickory, Elm.

Dave

[Henry St.Pierre]

[e-mail] (Charlie Self) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Mr. Self, What can be more exotic than the beautiful maple in the northern part of the United States or the southern part of Canada. Birds eye, fiddle back, tiger etc. Beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder. Hank

[Charlie Self]

Charles Peavey notes:

Probably should have been on my original list.

Charlie Self

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it." George Carlin

[Jeff]

Speaking of chestnut, if anyone is in the Pittsburgh, PA area, Construction Junction, a non-profit selling used and surplus building materials (), has stacks wormy chestnut 2x10s or 12s that came from a warehouse that was recently torn down. $0.75/ft...

-Jeff