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Offline soy

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Osage question...
« on: April 01, 2013, 10:16:07 pm »
What is going on here??I have these pockets of this brown almost looks like Sap that has been caramelized in the early wood...will this cause structural instability in the form of laminar separation?
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Osage question...
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2013, 11:37:42 pm »
I've never seen anything like that before.  Does it keep going down through the rings or could you remove a few and get below it?
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Offline Pat B

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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2013, 12:16:05 am »
Look at the side grain and see if there is any seperation between groth rings. Wind shakes are delaminations that discolor. Is "that spot" limited to that spot?
  You need to seal that back. I already see a drying check I think, just to the left of "that spot". 
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2013, 12:25:43 am »
I've worked Black Cherry that had sap pockets that kinda looked like that, but never Osage.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2013, 12:49:27 am »
Sapsuckers will leave damage like that in yew, and other woods.  Not sure if they would go aafter osage.  Maybe woodpecker pulled out one of them wasp grubs.
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Re: Osage question...
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2013, 12:55:38 am »
Quote from: Pat B on April 02, 2013, 12:16:05 am
Look at the side grain and see if there is any seperation between groth rings. Wind shakes are delaminations that discolor. Is "that spot" limited to that spot?
  You need to seal that back. I already see a drying check I think, just to the left of "that spot".



I agree with pat I see the crack forming you need to take the rings down till the cracks gone and seal it immediately before it goes down to deep
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Re: Osage question...
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2013, 04:50:48 am »
there are multiple drying checks it is on the belly side I cut this in half early and didn't seal the belly :-[ is not limited to that 1 spot there are multiple spots in a couple growth ring Period
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