mulberry

I would imagine it would become fruitless mulberrry after you turned it :) Mick

Afternoon Brock:

Mulberry turns well WET.............. BUT wear a Raincoat!

I was researching osage orange, and found out that it is related to mulberry. Osage orange is VERY hard, even when somewhat wet. It also smells like old tires. The color is wonderful. robo hippy

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Hello Brock

Brock I don't know what fruitless Mulberry is, in my library I find there are 10 species, 2 are native to N. America, but I assume it is a hybrid, question would be why have a mulberry without fruit, it's not a great looking tree IMO. Anyway I have turned Mulberry quiet a bit, and have, halve a multi stemmed tree out on my patio, cut up into manageable pieces. It turns ok, it likes to tears out a bit, it's not tearing out cross grain but length wise when it is wet, not a problem after rough turned and dried. It likes to keep a lot of water in, as someone already mentioned, and I assume that is one of the reasons why it changes size more than most, when drying, I also have to slow down the drying rate, especially if I leave the sapwood on, the sapwood likes to split at places like by the tenon if that's sapwood, I just came back from my drying cabin, one of the bowls I checked up on is a 18" Mulberry wrapped in 3 layers of newspaper, it's still doing fine, lost 1/2" of its width so far, the smaller bowls I put in a brown paper bag and close the end, they will stay in there for at least 3 months, they get checked regularly. Yes this got a little long, hope it helps.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

brock b. wrote:

If you like orange.

Deb

Leo, One reason to have a Mulberry without fruit is that is a very messy tree. When I was a kid, there was a Mulberry in the neighbors yard that hung over into our yard. Running around the backyard barefoot would get you purple feet. I've turned a little Mulberry and IMO the wood does not have an attractive color.

-- Martin Long Island, New York

Another problem with it is the birds eat the berries and their crap stains your car!

Hi Martin

Not a good enough reason in my book.

I think purple or black, they (your feet) would have to get washed, you should have seen me eating brambles or walnuts and I still like ras,mul,black,blue,sascatoon, etc.berries, you bet I do, still get whatever color goes with it to.

The mulberry wood has a nice golden color, turns a dark honey after a while, this sentence keeps it within the rec wood turning rules.

Have fun and take care Leo van Der Loo

Mart> Leo,

One reason to have a Mulberry without fruit is that is a very messy tree.

Hi BoB

Almost as bad as the fish and worm eating bird droppings, that'll eat the paint right off, all good reasons for a car wash. To keep this on topic, you could cover the car with mineral oil maybe, it should just wash off, no ???

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Bob wrote:

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mac

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Plus wherever the birds make their deposits, the seeds grow and those damn things are so hard to get rid of. I had a bunch of them right up against the house where the birds would sit on the gutter and well you know...

Bob wrote:

I have heard it is a fruitless exercise! *G*

Leif

Only if you leif it till it is too dry to turn.

"Round 'n 'round the mulberry chunk the turner plied his chisel. His iron caught a knot, which hit him in the beezer!

Hey Leif, isn't verse supposed to rhyme?

Hey, I modeled it after "Pop Goes the Weasel"

"All around the mulberry bush The monkey chased the weasel. The monkey thought 'twas all in fun. Pop! goes the weasel."

It has a very weak rhyme scheme (weasel/weasel -- come on!). I then made an artistic judgment to simply skip the rhyming effort and try to maintain the meter -- the flow, if you will -- by using "blank" verse which I thought appropriate for a turning poem! *G*

Methinks you've been standing too close to the LDD vat for too long Leif. I'm guessing, but it appears the fumes may have caused permanent damage..............

====>I am surrounded by poetic and LDD Philistines! Where is Arch when he is needed?*G*

Leif

Quite the opposite. You're going to have to work on your rhyme and metre.

I think you better show off some turnings quick before people remember you as a poet. Trust me - you don't want to be remebered as a poet...

'Twould be better they remember your artistry in wood! Le it remembered how you strived for good How you never hewed the hallowed tree! And you would not turn the fruitless mulberry Unless it be for faith and rood

:-)