Turning Cypress
 

How is it for turning?

Turning Cypress
 

The wood explorer - program - gives the following (in part):
e.g. take this with the stars... More star are quantity of reports.
Looks like the specific log makes it easier or harder.
Maybe due to ring size and moisture content...

Google wood explorer and check it out. A CD of massive data.





Carving
** Fair to Good Results
** Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Cutting Resistance
*** Easy to saw
** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult to saw
** Moderate to saw


Gluing
***** Fair to Good Results
**** Fairly Easy to Very Easy
** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult

*** Easy to glue


Mortising
*** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult
** Fairly Easy to Very Easy
** Fair to Good Results

* Moderately easy to mortise



Movement in Service
**** Stable



Planing
**** Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult
** Fairly Easy to Very Easy
** Fair to Good Results

* Ease of planing is moderate


Resistance to Impregnation
***** Resistant heartwood
** Resistant sapwood

** Heartwood is moderately resistant


Response to Hand Tools
**** Fairly Difficult to Difficult to Work
*** Responds Readily
** Easy to Work

******** Easy to machine
** Moderate working qualities
** Difficult to machine


Routing & Recessing
** Fair to Good Results
** Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Screwing
* Screwing yields good results
* Easy to screw


Turning
*** Poor to Very Poor Results
*** Fair to Good Results
** Very Good to Excellent Results
** Fairly Easy to Very Easy


Veneering Qualities
*** Veneers moderately easy
** Difficult to veneer
** Veneers easily
** Suitable for peeling
* Suitable for slicing

* There is slight to moderate drying degrade and the potential for
buckles and splits
* Moderately easy to veneer

Martin

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Ted wrote:
How is it for turning?




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"Ted" wrote in message
.. .
How is it for turning?
I like it - you can get an excellent flame pattern between the sapwood and
heartwood if you turn on-axis -makes great vases and goblets


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On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:41:22 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

Screwing
* Screwing yields good results
* Easy to screw

Wow.. they know about my first wife!!


mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Turning Cypress
 

Ted wrote:
How is it for turning?


I turned some coasters from seasoned boards and they turned out well.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

A harp is a nude piano.

Turning Cypress
 

Ted wrote:

How is it for turning?




It's great to work with, in that it is a softer wood. I'm using it for
my front porch spindles, and have quite a bit left over that I play with
to make bowls, pens, goblets etc. The only thing is you have to be
carefult on the cut and if you are trying to do beads. If you're using
a quarter sawn section, then a beading tool will have a tendancy to rip
out. That is where a good skew, spindle master, or a comfortable
spindle gouge works real great for it. I chose it because it will keep
it's color for a long time on covered, but even with tung oil it doesn't
change too much. I also like the way it smells when I work with it.


Mike

To make kindling is human, to finish the "project" divine.