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I am definitely going to hell after the stunt I pulled. Let me start by saying he was ( and I hope still is) a good friend and we are always pulling tricks on each other. Anyway he was in the shop today and saw a pile of VERY black sawdust on the floor by the chainsaw. There was a 8" by 10" by

12" piece of black wood nearby and he asked what type of wood it was. I replied Texas ebony and proceeded explain how after years of exposure it turned to a deep black and was even more impervious to rot and insects than bois d'arc. He asked me how it turned and I had to admit that I had never tried but he was welcome to take the piece and try it. He thought that was a great idea, grabbed the wood and rushed home to try it. Now I have to worry about his reaction when he discovers that his prize is a piece of railroad tie!
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Art Ransom
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I repaired a plain figured hard maple bowl with some Texas Ebony a couple of weeks back (way too much vacuum!) and sold it last weekend for 10 times what I could have gotten the plain maple bowl for. First time I worked with it. Pretty nice! It scraped better than it cut though. I really liked it.

Hopefully, that railroad tie wasn't coated! I'd hate to think I'd given someone (who didn't know any different) something that was so hazardous.

- Andrew

Reply to
AHilton

How is he going to react when you offer him some of that nice Arkansas Zebrawood as a token of peace?

Slowly I tuned... Randy

Art Ransom wrote:

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Sawdust Bytes

so if you just disappear we'll know why....

Reply to
bridger

priceless :))))))

watch out for the Jade cedar (left over scrap from his neighbour's new deck) he might give you in return...

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Reply to
Bart V

I agree........you ARE going to Hell............straight to Hell................Man, that was cruel!

Barry

Reply to
Barry N. Turner

Love it! Do let us know how this develops.

On a similar note, anyone ever turn creosote bush?

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Owen Lowe

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Hmmmm, plenty of it around here, but it's kinda skimpy/smallish. It might smell nice, like a rain comin'. Tom Work at your leisure!

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Tom

There are a couple of folks on the northern craft circuit who turn ties. Never know what you're getting here, as tie cuts are normally the boxed hearts of whatever's on the bunks at the time. Imagine it'd be pretty much pine down there.

Can't imagine how tough it must be on tools with all the embedded grit.

Reply to
George

Well?

Reply to
Owen Lowe

Cryolite's a rock. Perhaps you mean Creosote?

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J. Clarke

Or coprolite? Tom Work at your leisure!

Reply to
Tom

Naw, that's a crappy idea.

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Owen Lowe

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4 That is a Texas-sized Horned Frog?

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George

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