Bog oak for sale

Neat, but I hate turning Oak- it always cracks on me, and it'd be a shame to waste rare old wood like that. Try rec.woodworking

I have turned Swedish bog oak, c. 3400 BC and have had no problems with it cracking. I think 5000 years soaking in a bog must be equivalent to a week in LDD. : )

Oh come on, now- not even 5000 years of bog soaking can compare to a week in LDD, *everyone* knows that! :)

Hi there

They have and still are pulling wood out of bogs and water and peat places, all over the world, it used to be burned, probably still being done but some of it is taken out and used for turning and sculpting etc., apparently they use some of the bog oak in Ireland for turning, and the wood is "more unstable than any I've ever seen" according David Sloan in a write up in Fine Woodworking, "turned wet, in a matter of hours it distorts severely", yet the small chunks of 30.000+ years old Kauri My sister brought back from New Zealand for me, a couple of years ago have not changed a hair, just depends what wood it is to start of with I assume.

I now was wondering if there is any swamp wood taken out and used for turning or art work etc. in North America, or do people not bother with this kind of wood, I don't seem to remember having heard of anyone using it here, of coarse I don't know all that is done with regards to this kind of work, have any of you ??

Just wondering.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Prometheus wrote:

The logs out of Lake Mich. are fantastic. They are old thin banding and very large. They are very stable and are typically sawed into custom board or laminate.

Mart> Hi there

Hi Martin

Yes I knew about that one, I was more referring to the wood out of bogs and swamps, there's got to be wood in them, then again it might be only soft wood, like tamarack.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Mart> The logs out of Lake Mich. are fantastic. They are old thin banding

Tamarack is a softwood, but it's certainly not soft wood. even with the growth rate it can generate in the open.

This is not Europe, where bogs are harvested for their peat. We've had wood until we had coal and oil. Even attempts to harvest sphagnum are loudly and legally resisted, so what rests inside will remain there.

It is a pine like tree - resists wood borers Larix laricina Tamarack Pinaceae Alaska larch - ... various larches Hackmatack Larch... Poor turning... Difficult to work with hand tools. Contains silica Poor resistance to splitting .... The wood explorer documentation. Martin

Specific gravity about like cherry, and loaded with resin. It turns all right, just doesn't have anything spectacular about it, and it makes a sticky mess of the shop. I've also used it for spoons, but it can be quite frustrating to discover pitch pockets in exactly the wrong places. Those which survive are durable, and even the sapwood has good mildew resistance.

Ours is L laricina

Actually everyones is L l the other names are local names or common ones. The first is the Latin formal name. Martin

are durable, and even the sapwood has good mildew resistance.

Others disagree. http://131.220.103.1/conifers/pi/la/index.htm L laricina isn't half the tree occidentalis is.

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Mario