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Offline newknapper

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seasoning help
« on: July 08, 2008, 01:12:40 am »
Hi guys this is my first post on here, I went today and gatherd some wood I got a log of dogwood that is about 8' long (or longer) and 8 to 6" in diameter also got 4 main trunks from wild plum trees between 5 1/2' to 6' in length and 2 to 3" in width my question is about the plum whats the best way to season it? I have read it likes to check badly and twist
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Offline sailordad

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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 01:20:01 am »
send it to me,i'll season it for ya ;D

i been looking for wild plum or wild apple or any wild fruit tree,all i can find are these ones in peoples back yards all over town,heck one guy down the block has a pear tree.
i really like the limbs on the tree,wish a strom would knock it down for me.


hang on there brother,some one with knowledge should be along shortly

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Offline DanaM

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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 03:44:13 am »
Never season wild plum, but I have season service berry in that size, I pulled the bark and sealed the whole stave in 2 coats of shellac, seems to be fine,
you could als strip the bark and bandsaw one side off and then seal the whole thing back and belly. Seal the dogwood also I bet it checks easily also being so hard.

Tim learn to identify service berry its a very hard dense wood.
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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2008, 05:55:37 am »
What Dana said on plum and dogwood. :)
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2008, 07:37:17 am »
Split it at least in half (or saw the smaller ones.) A whole round log will take forever to season, plus it's almost impossible to keep it from checking in the round. You might want to tie that plum down to something, the only plum stave I've cut so far twisted up like a petrified snake as it dried.
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Offline newknapper

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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2008, 11:40:22 am »
thanks guys, I am gonna split the dogwood today
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Offline ricktrojanowski

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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 10:22:51 pm »
Plum.....Man I am so jealous.  I've been looking for some everywhere.  Good luck with it. I've seen pictures of some plum bows.  They looked awesome.
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Offline newknapper

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Re: seasoning help
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2008, 11:52:52 am »
Here is my haul, this is the first time splitting staves from a log and i got a couple things to learn. I managed to get one good looking stave from th tree, the longest plum is the one on the left its about 80" and has 4" of natural reflex..

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