My cousin runs a business near San Antonio called Mesquite Furniture of
Texas which, as you might guess, specializes in mesquite furniture. Here in
Chicago, the local place used to have it for about $11/bf. I notice it's
not even on the current price list. The book on it is that it's hard,
though it seems to work OK. BTW, he finishes everthing with a few coats of
precatalyzed lacquer. Some of the larger (and especially the burled) logs
get turned into fireplace mantels.

todd

"Mike Pio" wrote in message
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Anyone use mesquite? I live in Arizona where these trees are pretty
plentiful. I have a friend in the tree trimming business who often comes
across very large sections of this tree. He brought me a few 2 foot
samples
today, just rough chain sawed. I dressed them into some 8/4 stock and
they
really came out beautiful (smelled like popcorn or something while
milling).
I'm just wondering if I've struck it rich here, or if it's just fool's
gold.

Any experience with mesquite??

-m