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Pear wood for cutting boards questions...

Barry Irby

My neighbor had several Bradford pear trees taken down. I grabbed the logs, such as they were. They have been laying in my driveway for a years or two. I had the larger ones sawed into 4/4 boards. Today I took some of the left overs and cut them into cookies about 2" thick, thinking I would use them for making end grain cutting boards.

Now what to do with the cookies. They are still too wet and slightly spalted. Should I slice them down into cubes? What would you do?

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Ellis Walentine

Not much help, but...

Ellis Walentine

... pear is one of my favorite turning woods. You can turn hollowforms green, with the pith in, and the wood doesn't check around the heart. At least, that has been my experience. So, if you have some bigger sections, try turning something.

Ellis

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#3

Re: Not much help, but...

johnv

And turned green to finished it can warp invert interesting shapes. Picture a goblet canted about 20 degrees.

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Re: Pear wood for cutting boards questions...

John K Jordan

I also turn bradford pear and at the moment also have quite a bit of asian pear cut in to blanks and drying. (I mostly turn dry wood) The fine grain in any pear is delightful. I like it for carving too.

However, I don't find 2-inch "cookies" that useful. However, I haven't tried turning it green in end grain orientation. If turned thin enough it might not crack but in that orientation you might not get the interesting warping you get with face-grain turnings.

Just for fun, this is bradford pear, turned in face orientation before carving:



JKJ

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