Tuliptree wood any good?

[se7enthdevil]

Thanks Steve,

Will give it a go as its far too good to burn, the colours are terrific. It is incredibly wet that's probably the norm with it being part of the pop family.

 

by the way it's in the magnoliaceae not the salicaceae...

[Gardenmac]

should dry out fairly well even in the thicker section. nepia wants a platter turned from a bit of ther tree he delivered to me today and the only bit big enough is 17" and has already been split and i'll cut it in to a 2 1/2" platter blank and would expect it to be dry by august if rough turned.

 

it's got nowhere near as much colour as your stuff but shall do my best with it.

 

if you get some decent blanks or even half logs i'll be interested.

 

Most of it has been cut into rings or short lengths about 3ft long. The rings vary from about 12-18 inches and about 18-20 inch wide.

I'll have a go a making turning blanks and if any turn out (scuse the pun)will let you know. Postage might kill it off but I'm sure we could use the arbtalk network to move it from here in sunny West Lancs down to you.

[se7enthdevil]

I think it is a case of firewood or nowt. The stem is not very clean so would not make very nice boards anyway.

 

 

have you considered using tulip for core material and veneering over the top. i made a corner unit in ash and wanted to use solid timber throughout but with the panels that are against the wall i glued 2" staves of tulip together and veneered over them. it was lighter than mdf (i hate that stuff) and is dimensionaly stable.

 

it wont matter what it looks like as it'll never be seen.

[Woodworks]

Never veneered solid wood myself. When I do veneer it is onto ply or MDF because I want a stable substrate.

 

Sorry Steve it will be mostly firewood with maybe a few bowl blanks put aside.

[wisewood]

was logging more Tulip tree today and thought you might appreciate the colours.

 

Looks nice that Russell, hope you haven't split all of it

[se7enthdevil]

Never veneered solid wood myself. When I do veneer it is onto ply or MDF because I want a stable substrate.

 

Sorry Steve it will be mostly firewood with maybe a few bowl blanks put aside.

 

each to there own.

 

i found it great stuff to use though, back when i was employed as a joiner we use to use mdf to veneer on to and there were always problems hence why i have such a hate of the stuff now.

 

when i did it for college i was the only one but the others all had warping of some degree after it cam out the press, i assume mine didn't because they are both wood and move together. it was only pva bonded.

 

if you get any spare time beau make up a sheet of 24"x 48" x 12" and veneer it with scraps, once it's dry in the press it shouldn't move an inch.

 

i said to my teacher that 250 years of this method cant have been wrong.

[Woodworks]

"each to there own."

 

Not really Steve

 

Sometimes there is a right way and wrong way for each situation. In this thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/59950-building-walnut-box.html I used home cut veneers on ply. If the veneer was on wood the top could still expand and shrink which would have blown the box apart. Yes Tulip is very stable in that it does not warp much but it still expands and shrinks so makes in unsuitable for many jobs.

 

If I used very exotic species it might be worth veneering on solid wood but as it is I don't so the cost in time to veneer to save wood versus just using a thicker piece of the feature wood is not worth it. Hope that makes sense

 

The only times I veneer is because I want something entirely dimensionaly stable and ply and MDF are the only way to achieve this outside of PEG or encapsulation with resin.

[se7enthdevil]

sounds like i did mine the wrong way then...

 

i thought that when i did it i was doing what our granddads generation did and they churned out some decent goods...

[se7enthdevil]

i thought that doing it this way i would be making something more stable than mdf or ply as they can expand or separate and then the veneer would peel off at the edges.

 

in the end the two sides and a shelf were created using this method, the shelf was a solid bit of tulip rather than staves and none of it has budged an inch.

 

have i just been lucky?

[Gardenmac]

Looks nice that Russell, hope you haven't split all of it

 

:biggrin:not yet, still got the two longer pieces put to oneside