May 11, 2004
Flowering Peach Wood
Today I was helping my parents with this yard project. We discovered that a flowering peach tree had a large branch that cracked and fell on the fence between their yard and the neighbors'. I sawed the branch, lugged it over to my parents' side and cut it up. What I found was dense, tightly-grained wood. I was wondering if anyone has ever had any experience with working this kind of wood. I imagine that it would make incredible furniture. Does is take to seasoning well? Does it check easily?
Posted by erik at May 11, 2004 11:52 PM | TrackBackFruit woods are traditional for recorders (the woodwind). They are wonderful for things that need to last as they are a slow growing and incredibly fine grained wood.
My fingers itch to work that branch!
(I was the first girl in my High School to be allowed into wood shop class - my first project was a hope chest, the second, a cradle).
Erik:
Contact John Galten about this topic: he is quite the woodworker.
SC