Basswood Pronunciation

Ed, how's that BEEwood to carve?

Al

Yuk!!!!!!

Thanks Ed
I have looked in the on line catalog of Little shavers a couple of times. Think I going to send him the $3 and get the printed version after Christmas. Rick does have some pretty good prices.
You know i lived down in Texas City for about 4 years when i first came to Texas. Tons of tallow trees trees around that area. They did make some decent Sticks though. Now up here in Trinity there are lots of hardwoods and some do make good sticks but none are really good for regular carving. I have doone quite a few wood spirits in sticks but have now moved more toward carving in the round and am now looking at different patterns and roughouts of people characters and animals that i think I would like to carve. Have done a couple of small reliefs. Not into Caricature carving or birds.

I like doing stylized fish out of the juniper (cedar to Texans). You can get some really nice affects if you watch the color and grain as they both run parllel to one another. The redish brown over the white works well and sometimes you can get the two colors to intermingle for a koi like effect. Don't know if the cedars grow that far east or not. I don't remember seeing any last time I was there. It carves a bit hard, but is pretty and smells good. Make nice wood spirits too.

I have seen a few but they were in someone's yard
and I could not get to them.
A friend of mine has a cedar stick that he found at a flea market for $10. Looks good.

I sold some sticks last year when I lived down in Texas City
but no one up here wwants to pay anything. No way am I going debark a stick, carve it, stain it, polly it, out a rubber tip on it, and then sell it for $10 or less. i will just keep them.
They are cheap on E Bay also.

[Kenny_S]

Ed, Hows those fish for cookin? Hard to bite in to?

[BasketballJones]

This may sound like a stupid question, but if basswood is depleted in certain areas and in short supply why wouldn't there be a conservationist effort to restore the supply for future generations? With all the wood related businesses in the US and Canada there can't be a unified interest among these companies to invest in land for the sole purpose of growing trees? Hope I'm not sounding like Al Gore.

[don]

thre is some replanting being done in southern N.B. I think it's the Irving Lumber company that has a nursery with basswood trees near St Stephen. I know my sister bought some from someone there a couple of years ago. Don

Big Wayne - Don't know if Trinity has a golf course or not, but if they do a stop by the maintenance shed for a talk with the crew might be in order. I've got permission from the one here to go through their trimmings pile whenever I want. Don't have to anymore because they know what I'm looking for now and let me know whenever something I'm interested in shows up. Just got some nice spalted willow logs that they took from some standing dead trees. Look like they are nice and solid with no bugs.

I read somewhere ,the reason for a basswood shortage is that Japan was impoting large amounts. They use it to make venetian blinds.