I'm not sure that I have seen that wood used before. I am going to have to look into what the grain and bark looks like.
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I'll try and take a couple of pics of the black locust trees up here. I'm next to acres of the stuff, both saplings and full grown. The
bark on the mature trees is really neat looking stuff.
I once plucked a sapling for a walking stick and made the mistake of peeling off the bark right away which btw, you can strip it
clean in about 30 seconds just using your thumb, comes off in huge strips, but it split from bow to stern within a week.
bark on the mature trees is really neat looking stuff.
I once plucked a sapling for a walking stick and made the mistake of peeling off the bark right away which btw, you can strip it
clean in about 30 seconds just using your thumb, comes off in huge strips, but it split from bow to stern within a week.
Score! Searching the woods in Chandler Park, west Tulsa, I had found only one poor slingshot fork in the hour + that I had allotted. I gave up and began circling back to the truck, and happened upon a power line right of way. Apparently, last summer they had cut down new growth that potentially could in a few years touch the power lines.
I spotted a young tree, in a pile. Near their cut at the base, the oval-shaped trunk is 2" x 2 3/8". I cut about 7' to bring home. I had my own walking stick, but this beast was more useful for climbing a few rock ledges on my return.
Distinguishing tipoffs included the small, sharp spines, 1/4"-3/8" long, less numerous than I remembered on Locust trees, and narrower than those I've seen pictured. The tree had been cut well before leaf drop in the Fall, and so the leaves remained attached. I'd bet this is in the Locust family, and perhaps a Black Locust. I estimate this has been naturally drying for five or six months, a wild guess I admit.
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I spotted a young tree, in a pile. Near their cut at the base, the oval-shaped trunk is 2" x 2 3/8". I cut about 7' to bring home. I had my own walking stick, but this beast was more useful for climbing a few rock ledges on my return.
Distinguishing tipoffs included the small, sharp spines, 1/4"-3/8" long, less numerous than I remembered on Locust trees, and narrower than those I've seen pictured. The tree had been cut well before leaf drop in the Fall, and so the leaves remained attached. I'd bet this is in the Locust family, and perhaps a Black Locust. I estimate this has been naturally drying for five or six months, a wild guess I admit.
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