Turning Cypress

The wood explorer - program - gives the following (in part): e.g. take this with the stars... More star are quantity of reports. Looks like the specific log makes it easier or harder. Maybe due to ring size and moisture content...

Google wood explorer and check it out. A CD of massive data.

Carving

** Fair to Good Results ** Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Cutting Resistance

*** Easy to saw ** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult to saw ** Moderate to saw

Gluing

***** Fair to Good Results **** Fairly Easy to Very Easy ** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

*** Easy to glue

Mortising

*** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult ** Fairly Easy to Very Easy ** Fair to Good Results

• Moderately easy to mortise

Movement in Service

**** Stable

Planing

**** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult ** Fairly Easy to Very Easy ** Fair to Good Results

• Ease of planing is moderate

Resistance to Impregnation

***** Resistant heartwood ** Resistant sapwood

** Heartwood is moderately resistant

Response to Hand Tools

**** Fairly Difficult to Difficult to Work *** Responds Readily ** Easy to Work

******** Easy to machine

** Moderate working qualities ** Difficult to machine

Routing & Recessing

** Fair to Good Results ** Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Screwing

• Screwing yields good results

• Easy to screw

Turning

*** Poor to Very Poor Results *** Fair to Good Results ** Very Good to Excellent Results ** Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Veneering Qualities

*** Veneers moderately easy ** Difficult to veneer ** Veneers easily ** Suitable for peeling

• Suitable for slicing

• There is slight to moderate drying degrade and the potential for buckles and splits

• Moderately easy to veneer

Martin

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I like it - you can get an excellent flame pattern between the sapwood and heartwood if you turn on-axis -makes great vases and goblets>

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mac

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I turned some coasters from seasoned boards and they turned out well.

It's great to work with, in that it is a softer wood. I'm using it for my front porch spindles, and have quite a bit left over that I play with to make bowls, pens, goblets etc. The only thing is you have to be carefult on the cut and if you are trying to do beads. If you're using a quarter sawn section, then a beading tool will have a tendancy to rip out. That is where a good skew, spindle master, or a comfortable spindle gouge works real great for it. I chose it because it will keep it's color for a long time on covered, but even with tung oil it doesn't change too much. I also like the way it smells when I work with it.

Mike

To make kindling is human, to finish the "project" divine.