pecan ?

[gwd]

i have a pecan tree trunk and a few branches
that was cut down a few years ago will this be to soft to turn or should it be fire wood
i cut one of the branches tonight and it was soft the trunk is about two foot across will take pic later
thanks
Gary

 

[shull]

You may have to stabilize the wood but pecan can get some interesting spalting. I have been turning a fair bit of it lately and also doing some flat work with it and think it is pretty easy to work with.

 

[leehljp]

I have made several pens from a pecan tree from my yard in the States. I also have made some from the soft sap wood. An interesting one was a pen made from an amalgamated section of the sap and bark. Since the sap and soft inner bark are different densities, they dry at different rates. I had to use quite a bit of CA in stabilizing it. Very mottled color.

But the heart wood also makes beautiful pens.