"Patriarch" wrote in message
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Do you have a friend with a lathe? Often turners will trade good seasoned
firewood for good, but green, turning wood. For example, oak burns well,
and turns rather poorly.


Huh? Guess it depends on how you prepare it for firewood - stays wet in 4'
lengths for two or three seasons. Hard maple's dry in one.

Turns beautifully, as well. Got a large amount in my firewood three years
back, and the bowls have sold _very_ well. Wish I'd made more than a
hundred.

Traded a face cord of maple for 6 veneer trims recently. 11 out of the 12
possibles - bark pocket in the other - worked up to bowls in the 14-16"
range. He didn't have to split, and what I gave him kept the chill off this
spring, where what I took was still damp.