Sycamore ....

[skyhuck]

Ok. so the consensus is it is worth milling. What's the best size?

 

Not sure I would mill it, if I offered that to the millers I sell too they would laugh. Bowl blanks as mentioned earlier would be more my thinking.

[benedmonds]

Not sure I would mill it, if I offered that to the millers I sell too they would laugh. Bowl blanks as mentioned earlier would be more my thinking.

 

OK how do I make bowl blanks? Are they not milled?

Should I leave it to season, should I paint the ends?

Then what?

[se7enthdevil]

firstly you mill it into boards of varying thicknesses then you can either cut bowl blanks from them and seal the edges or you can leave as boards and cut blanks once dry.

 

as a turner i like thick stuff so 4-6" but you can easily cut 2-3" too.

[skyhuck]

The guy I have sold bowl blanks to makes BIG bowls, that trunk would be cut into lengths between the unions, then ripped in half with the grain.

[spiral]

As far as I'm aware up ending is only need for summer felled sycamore and once the sap has stopped running out they should be stacked in the normal fashion.

 

That makes sense...

 

Down here in sub tropical Devon this year the sap was only down for a couple of months or so!

 

But climates vary.