My neighbor down the road had a big, dead, Western Juniper on his property. He told me I could have the wood if I cut it down and hauled it out - so of course I did. I was amazed how pretty the wood is. It smells really amazing too! What's the prettiest wood, cookies or splits that you've seen?
Looks alot like the cedar out here. Shagbark hickory noodled was probably the nicest stuff Ive seen in person or cherry.
Looks the same as Eastern Red Cedar. The females are packed with little purple cones right now. Cedar planks are beautiful, but really big cedars are rare.
We have no shortage of sassafras in my area. As soon as the saw touches the wood it emits a spicy, citrus odor that I absolutely love. The bigger trees can have a nice, rich brown color in the heartwood.
I can literally get high sniffing juniper. Absolutely my favorite wood to smell hands down. Saving a bunch of pieces for wood turning too. Smells great when used in a fire pit.
It does look soft although most juniper is extremely hard. It’s so hard it will dull a chain really fast.
Eastern red cedar cool cookies and cool lumber. I make kindling out of it too. Of course im sniffing it a lot! I like mulberry splits. Rare scrounge for me though.
No. I made the cookies though. buzz-saw has a bandsaw mill and lives two minutes from me. Purely coincidence. Heres a couple threads from the milling section A Buffet at the Mill Weekend Play Date With a Miller!
The cedar logs I got 2yrs ago are some of the nicest wood I have. I found in working this box, the red grain was very hard and the lighter it got the softer. Had to be very careful when sanding. The tale of the tail was when I put the finish on. On the red, tight grain, it took 2-4 days for it to cure. Amazing wood.
That wood is just begging to be turned into something. Some really impressive pics posted on this thread. I had 2 big maples cut down a few years ago and a custom guitar maker bought a few chunks off one of them. Turns out he lives right down the road. Anyway, he gave me some pointers on what to look for and how to dry slabs. Since then I've been making an antler mount every year out of figured maple. I feel bad now when I'm splitting maple and turn some really figured stuff into firewood. I just finished the wood for this year's buck.
