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24th September 2013, 11:12 AM #1Senior Member
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Question are crepe myrtle and jacaranda good bowl turning/ carving timber?
I am wanting to know if these timbers are good timbers to turn/ carve or of if there are better timbers to use for turning/ carving, as I have carved a bit of the crepe myrtle and it carved fairly well but i am not to sure about the jacaranda?
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24th September 2013, 12:22 PM #2
Crepe Myrtle is a rather dense, very fine timber that holds detail well... although it takes a bit of work to put the detail there as the timber tends to be rather hard. Like many fruit trees, it it's very prone to splitting when felled and really, really needs to be sealed as soon as each cut comes off the saw blade.
I've always considered Jacaranda to be a 'boring' wood in that it tends to be pale with little figure... much like a piece of Ash. Mind you, it's also prone to spalting and some mineral discolourations so it can be a pretty wood if you have a bit of luck. It's fairly middle-of-the-road stuff to turn, although I vaguely remember some problems with large splinters separating off whilst roughing down.
Both timbers are worth trying to turn at least once.
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24th September 2013, 12:28 PM #3Senior Member
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Okay thanks for the information if I do get a large enough bit of crepe myrtal i will give turning it a shot
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24th September 2013, 01:39 PM #4
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24th September 2013, 08:53 PM #6Senior Member
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So if i do get some jacaranda from the central coast it may have some interesting grain in it. What about the crepe myrtal are some of the smaller bits useful for pen turners at all or just fire wood and what about some of the larger bits from the forks even though some have cracks in them. will post some pics when I get some crepe myrtal and jacaranda later this week
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24th September 2013, 08:56 PM #7
The best grains are from below the forks of the tree and at the base where the stresses are greatest. Usually fiddle/quilting is visible in the bark too at these points
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24th September 2013, 09:07 PM #8Senior Member
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25th September 2013, 01:56 PM #9
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27th September 2013, 09:55 PM #10Senior Member
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these are some photos of what my 3 pieses of crepe myrtal fork and part ot a jacaranda log look like the crepe myrtal will be re cut later on the schools bandsaw so hopefuly some nice wood will come out of this so i can do a bit of carving and turning. the jacaranda will be discarded as it has borers or ants in it and the discolouration in the grain as part of the green wood that i had on it was more or a creamy white colour. are the black lines in the kacaranda pictured some form of rot or is it the start of spalting?
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28th September 2013, 07:56 AM #11
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28th September 2013, 11:23 AM #12Senior Member
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will the spalting process continue in this piece of wood and the other piece? or has the spalting in it stoped since i have cut it up?
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28th September 2013, 09:19 PM #13
Spalting will continue until it is dry
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29th September 2013, 11:11 AM #14Senior Member
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if i keep the 2 with spalting in a ziplock bag and add some moisture the spalting will continue through out the wood?
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29th September 2013, 07:58 PM #15
I just leave mine out in the open on some wet mouldy concrete
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