Neighbor cut down a small bay laurel. There's a couple of
small logs (largest about 40 - 48", about 2 or more inches diameter).

Worth saving for anything woodworking wise? Turnings? Knobs?

Anybody worked with it before?

MJ

MJ writes:
Neighbor cut down a small bay laurel. There's a couple of
small logs (largest about 40 - 48", about 2 or more inches diameter).

Worth saving for anything woodworking wise? Turnings? Knobs?

Anybody worked with it before?

MJ

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/pu...00&header_id=p

MJ writes:
Neighbor cut down a small bay laurel. There's a couple of
small logs (largest about 40 - 48", about 2 or more inches diameter).

Worth saving for anything woodworking wise? Turnings? Knobs?

Anybody worked with it before?

MJ

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/pu...00&header_id=p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbellularia

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...ics/laurel.htm

Sonny

Found this interesting.
Somewhere near the bottom of the article, it says the
wood attracts insects that reduce it to powder.

http://www.paleotechnics.com/Articles/Bayarticle.html

Neighbor cut down a small bay laurel. There's a couple of
small logs (largest about 40 - 48", about 2 or more inches diameter).

Too bad he lost the tree. The last time I bought leaves at the store,
it was going for over $80/oz.

-Zz

Zz Yzx writes:

Neighbor cut down a small bay laurel. There's a couple of
small logs (largest about 40 - 48", about 2 or more inches diameter).

Too bad he lost the tree. The last time I bought leaves at the store,
it was going for over $80/oz.

-Zz

You might not like the california bay laurel leaves - they're much more
potent than the bay leaves from the med. Be very careful with them.

(Visit the Villa Montalvo in Saratoga Ca, and walk the county trails there
to see a lot of bay laurel mixed in with the redwoods).

scott

Thanks for all the interesting posts. I got home from work,
my neighbor chopped up all the long logs and it went
into the recycle bin. Oh, well, there's more on the property.

Thanks again.

MJ