Best Smelling Wood

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Greg W. in NC

>1) without question, olivewood!

2) kingwood (but my respiratory system doesn't like it!)

3) camphor

Sassafras & Cherry

Dominic Greco in Richboro PA

>Mark,

No doubt in my mind. Sassafras smells the best when you turn it wet. However, if you're in to boiling your bowl blanks, nothing smells as nice as Cherry! It smells like you're making cherry preserves. My wife actually loves the smell so much that she doesn't mind the huge pot on "her" stove for (2)+ hours. :>)

See ya around,

Dominic

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Sean Troy

>Canarywood and Black Cherry

Black Birch (wintergreen)

Shawn - in CT

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Re: Sassafras & Cherry

George Van

>Thanks for the idea Dominic, I'm going to tell her it's a big potpourri pot!

George

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Richard Allen

>Tulipwood has a wonderful sweet smell.

Olivewood smells like ripe olives.

Crabapple smells like over ripe apples.

Lilac smells flowery.

Ash smells like butter toasted on bread.

Zebrawood smells like a safari in Africa

Eastern Cedar reminds me of the hamsters my friend had when I was in the 4th grade.

Ipe reminds me of the cigars Bill Medlin smoked, best boss I ever had.

Pin Oak (at least the wet pin oak I turned) reminded me of a trout fishing trip with Davey Platt. We got stuck in a swamp and every step we took released more swamp gas. We caught and released 14 trout that day and none of them were less that 14" with one Brown going over 18".

Smells and sounds that release fond memories are the best for me.

Thanks

Richard

Re: Best Smelling Wood

John Trant (aka Boxes-n-Bowls)

>Sassafras and cherry for a pleasant sweet smell.

Aromatic cedar and camphor when I want to clear up the sniffles.

Pin oak and elm when I want to chase everyone out of the workshop.

Ash when I need to satisfy that "Tim the toolman Taylor" urge to work with a woodsie wood.

Maple if I want no olfactory stimulation at all.

John

Re: Best Smelling Wood

RevDoug

>#1 - Olive

#2 - Almond

#3 - Cherry

#4 - bone (yeah right)

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Chuck Ludwigsen

>Based on the woods I have turned...

1. Cherry

2. Cedar

3. Walnut (sinuses hated it but I like the smell).

Chuck

Oregon Myrtle

John U - Charlotte, NC

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Sandalwood

Jim DeLaney, Tustin, CA

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Re: Best Smelling Wood

John Crissman

>Apple. Yep, gotta be apple. :)

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Mark Kauder

>Sean,

I am working with some Canarywood right now, and that is what got me thinking of this thread. Then I turned a bottle stopper out of Tulipwood last night, and I remembered why I love that wood.

Mark

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Mark Kauder

>Great post Richard!

Mark

Walnut & Cherry

Tony Reynolds Newark, OH

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Re: Best Smelling Wood

Roger F

>Free

Walnut.....addictive!

Keith Tompkins

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Black Cherry!

Jorge Castañeda ~ East Penobscot Baybscot Bay

>also black birch. The black cherry smells like cogh syrup, the black birch like root beer,sasafras smells good too.

Re: Best Smelling Wood

Dan Bailey

>I don't know about the bert smelling but the worst is willow that has grown near a sewer.

I speak from experience!!!!

Yes!

MikeinCapeMay

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The joys of green wood

Bob Hackett

>One of the things I`ve always enjoyed about turning has been the different smells of MOST of the green wood I`ve turned.

Lilac reminds me of iced tea mix and summer.Fresh cut cherry reminds me of pumpkins and the fall.Paper(white) birch reminds me of the sweet smell of spring.White oak reminds me of pipe tobacco and my father`s shop.Chestnut reminds me of horses and leading them back to the stable after a long ride.Mahogany or teak always reminds me of the boatyards and the men I worked with there.Sassafras and olive do smell wonderful too but I don`t associate them with much other than turning and the joy of being in the shop.

Bone has to be one of the least enjoyable smells,second only to the figured maple Mac was giving away awhile back.He said it was a big maple,it must have been huge judging from all the nutrients it had drawn from the manure pile it had it`s roots in!

As an aside,the last time one of my dogs got sprayed by a skunk I left him in the shop.I had been turning green maple most of that day and left the shavings on the floor.When I returned for him the next morning he barely smelled at all.The shavings he`d slept on had absorbed and killed the smell.After a brief bath you couldn`t tell he`d been into anything at all.There`s a trick I plan to use again as Otis,the new bench dog,has no fear of anything.He hasn`t met a skunk yet,it`s only a matter of time.

Mainely,Bob

Honey Locust

MP Wall

>Like the smell of honey and the wood turns great as well.

MP Wall

Another vote for Olive :)

Michael Rubes

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Peter Teubel

>I don't know about "best", but here some opintions:

1) Sassafrass - Wonderful

2) Cherry - Refreshing

3) Camphor - Medicinal

4) Red Cedar - Hampster cages

5) Red Oak - NASTY (I do not allow it on my shop at all)

6) Walnut - Smells like money because its me best selling wood