Hackberry ? ? ?
Barry Turner
>Can someone tell me the characteristics of hackberry? I think I'm trying to turn a piece. It's dry, not green, hard as a rock and has a pronounced grain similar to oak. Coloration is a bit greyish with some spalting.
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JamieDonaldson
>It's a member of the Elm family but looks and turns like a softer version of Ash. One of my favorite woods, and easily spalted with a mix of Miracle-Gro and beer!
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#3Hey Jamie....
Jennifer@Indy.USA
>I noticed that you got the honors of the cover for the WinterFair information card for this years WinterFair in Indy...Congratulations!
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Gary Evans, Tallassee, TN
>Hi Barry,
If you can look at the end grain under magnification, you will see that the smallest vessels (latewood cells) are arranged in the characteristic W pattern of elm. This often shows itself in the side grain as a feather pattern.
The coloring you describe could certainly be hackberry, but I wouldn't expect it to be overly hard when dry. I just planed a couple hundred board feet of dry hackberry and it cut like butter. No comparison to the hickory that I planed at the same time.
Any chance of posting a good picture? We might be able to tell from that.
Gary
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Ric Taylor
>If it's hard as a rock, it's probably not Hackberry.
Ric
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#6Re: Was there bark on it? Around here, the bark
Al Crandall --NE of Indy--
>Was there bark on it? Around here, the bark has pieces which stand perpendicular to the trunk surface. It looks like it is covered with dorsal fins from a million fish.
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Sorry- meant to be a new thread!
steve antonucci
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#9Spalted hackberry
Kudzu
>Just wish I had gone back and got the rest of this. Had a big stump of it.
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Barry Turner
>Well, that settles it, it ain't Hackberry. This stuff is harder than Hell and don't turn worth crap.
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Ed Heuslein
>Here is a piece of Hackberry I turned last year. The venerable Clay Foster prefers to refer to this wood as "Palo Blanco" which is what they call it in Mexico. I tend to agree with him as it sounds a lot more sophisticated than "Hackberry."
Ed
