These are a few photos of a hall tree made out of an old sycamore tree my nephew had near Delphos, Ohio (Middlepoint) that he had to cut down to build a garage. He gave me part of the trunk. It yielded over 1500 board feet of wood. The quarter sawn has a lot of figure in it, similar in some ways to quarter sawn oak. Not as hard but a good wood to work with.
My brother in law made the hall tree but I finished the same. Sycamore does not take stain very well, a lot like pine in that regard. Gets splotchy.
Since this is primarily a gun site I am having a Ruger 10 22 stock made out of the wood. We will see how that goes.
That has some nice figure in it for Sycamore. BTW, your nephew's name isn't Tod is it?
"Life' is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne
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Jim, it is a gun site...but I have a sawmill and enjoyed the pictures. I do fence with mine. I used to do everything but got so busy with the fence that it is all I saw. Locust, White Oak and Larch which is what the split rail is made of.
Run until your heart bursts
That would be correct.
Plasticweld: I had no idea that the wood would stand exposure to water and weather for fence posts.
Originally Posted by J.Baker
Tod's been one of my best friends since our high school days.
"Life' is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne
“Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain
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