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Stephen Henning wrote:

enigma wrote:
Stephen Henning wrote in

No, not yet, interested?

maybe. my black walnut needs another 10 years or so before it's
ready.

I have a basement full of black walnut lumber. Wood stores like
the high prices of walnut and aren't interested in buying it
cheaper. Their markup is less then. I know, I tried to sell
them some. No interest.

yeah, i sell to a couple different local lumber yards, but i mostly
am selling pine, ash, cherry & maple. i have several really nice
veneer quality maples coming along, carefully marked so they don't
get tapped for syrup & ruin them.
how do you dry lumber so it doesn't check? i have some bits around
i'd like to dry to use for bowls & utensils, but i haven't got the
drying thing figured out...
lee

I dried cherry in my barn. The walnut was stacked under the overhang of
a barn when I got it. I put it in my basement. Warning, finish the
surface of walnut on a thickness plane and joiner before drying. When
in dries, it gets very hard and tends to chip when you work it.

PS: mine was always cut into boards while green and then dried. I have
seen where it is best to rough cut bowls while the wood is still green
to assure more uniform drying and less checking.

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