winged elm
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I cut down a winged elm sapling in my yard. It is 2.5″ thick at the base and tapers to 1.25″ at eight feet.
I hate to throw wood away, especially since all I can get in the store is builders pine or very expensive oak, so I waxed the cut ends and started peeling off the bark (not the easiest task). Question is, what sort of thing does one make with this? I know people like elm for bows, but it is too narrow (plus I don’t know how to make a bow).
7 October 2018 at 6:59 pm #552562Elm is prized for its resistance to splitting. Chair seats are the main thing I can think of. In smaller sizes, chair bow backs or hockey sticks. It steams well.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Larry Geib.
Yes, it seems pretty flexible and dense. The wood database says tool handles are made from it, which could be handy if that means chisel and plane handles. Anyways, just harvested it, so I’ve got a year or two to think about it and figure out how to dimension it.
18 October 2018 at 4:25 pm #552768I have some elm that I collected in the form of logs. I split, resawed and stickered to dry for about a year. I’ve made some tools and small furniture pieces with it. I wish I had longer wood – mine are all around 2′ long. There’s only so much I can do with it. It reminds me of a really fine grained oak. It planes well, stains well and seems to take a finish pretty well.
I wouldn’t have a problem making something bigger out of this wood.
This piece is long and thin (2.5″ thick at the base, tapering to 1.25″ at 8′). Given the dimensions, I’m not sure if I should try to rip saw a narrow board out of the middle or leave it intact for carving a walking stick or something of that sort (I’ve also never worked with greenwood before). So far I’ve removed bark and waxed the cut end and branch cuts. Is it too thick to dry as a log?
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