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.
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