I have some walnut with green streaks in it

Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas S Caprette <dscaprette@j...>
To: johnl@i... <johnl@i...>
Cc: oldtools@l... <oldtools@l...>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: bewildering cutting angles


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>On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:04:58 -0600 "John H. Lederer" <johnl@i...>
>writes:
>
>>For extra credit<g>-- I made a handle for it
>>out of a piece of walnut firewood.  These
>>are  walnut branches that the saw mill
>>wouldn't take, the heartwood is only 2-4"
>>inches in diameter. It tends to have striking
>>greenish or green-yellowish streaks in it
>>which tend to fade a bit with time. Anybody
>>seen walnut like this? I haven't and wonder
>>if it is a property of the small branch wood.
>>
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>No I haven't.  I wonder if it isn't black locust--I could tell by the
>smell, but
>I can't smell it by email.
>
>Black locust is also harder than walnut, and the bark will have deeper
>and somewhat more irregulat grooves.  The clincher would be if you
>find thorns on it somewhere.
>
>It might also be the case that the tree was diseased.
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