Plum has beautiful colors, reds, orange, pink, purple. The sap wood
starts out white, and goes yellow to orange as it oxidizes. It cuts
wonderfully, a nice smooth even grain. The ornamental plums have a lot
of bark inclusions which make for nice natural edge bowls. The
fruiting trees tend to be smoother on the outside, and make for better
utility bowls. It does like to check pretty quickly.
robo hippy

On Nov 2, 7:38 am, Ted wrote:
A friend of mine cut down a plum tree and gave me the wood. It was
not very big but I was able to turn about ten small bowls from the
wood. By the time I got the wood home it had already started to
check so I turned them immediately while the wood was still green.
They warped a bit as they dried but people seemed to like the wood and
the warp. They all sold right away.

Ted

On Nov 2, 6:20 am, (racing John) wrote:

Has anyone turned any Plum wood and how did it do?