Best way of cutting monkey puzzle timber?

[tommer9]

Check out this website- there are some monkey puzzle bits on it. This guy is awesome, and nearly had the burr that the eden project had.

Gallery pictures

[18 stoner]

Very nice Tom:thumbup1:

 

I like the big bowl on the lathe with the long knots showing:001_smile:

[nepia]

Turners aren't interested in the lower trunk; the eyes are too small as they come from the first branches to fall off.

If you're ringing up for turners just cut away from the eyes. Every turner wants it cut differently so just go halfway between each whorl. Just put up with the moaning later.

And then, if you're still looking to turners, get rid of it asap; once it's been sitting about a while you'll get 'it's gone dry; can't turn dry Monkey Puzzle - it goes woolly'. I've just had this from a well know Puzzle turner for whom I'd set aside some pieces: he took one look and walked away.

To keep the rings in good condition leave them grain down on damp soil and cover them so that there's minimal ventilation, though still some. This advice came from one of the country's foremost Puzzle turners.

 

Re milling the trunk: that's been discussed here before and I seem to remember the majority voting that MP planks disintegrate when they dry because of the huge difference in properties of the branch roots and the main wood; the latter shrinks a lot and falls off the former. Like the knots falling out of old floorboards...

 

Encouraging stuff eh?

 

Of course you could drop it, ring it, dump it but personally I think that would be a crying shame.

[18 stoner]

Very good info there, cheers nepia:thumbup1:

 

I know a guy who would be interested in the turning stuff, so i will give him a call when i get it back to the yard.

 

Can anyone give me an idea on value, ive never had anything to do with this stuff before:confused1:

 

Cheers

[Yorkshireman]

depending on access you could use one of these, but the first idea has got more chuckles ....

Edited August 25, 2010 by Yorkshireman

[Frank]

Monkey puzzle hurts.

[18 stoner]

the first idea has got more chuckles ....

 

Monkey puzzle hurts.

 

Ha Ha!

 

Git up there squirt;

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ouch!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

hire a harvester and bash the spiny beast no handed!

[Stephen Blair]

i didnt think Monkey Puzzle came in a small. why did that get climbed? why was there a thread started about the worlds smallest tree. That is no puzzle for a monkey. I know frank is tiny but COME ON.

[18 stoner]

It was the biggest i could get him to work on Stevie:lol:

 

I believe there will be more pics tomorrow, to bump up the giggle we had today. Both of us running late tonight after pricing our own jobs.

 

Off to bed now, but will get back tomorrow night:thumbup1: