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A tree trimmer friend just brought me three trailer loads of 50 year old polled mulberry. (The trees had all the branches cut off every year, leaving big knobs of scar tissue on the ends of the big limbs). That scar tissue has the most incredible grain and color.

Anyone in the Phoenix area who would like some of this wood, email me and I will give you directions. I have FAR more than I can EVER use and am willing to share :biggrin:.

Anyone who is willing to pay the postage I will ship it to you for the cost of the postage. I'll get some cut up today and post pictures.

Here are pics of some of the knobs.

https://picasaweb.google.com/sbwertz/Mulberry?authkey=Gv1sRgCKvpldOuhJ7sNA

Here is a link to a pen turned from this kind of wood. The pen on the left with the turquoise inlay
IAP Home - Photos - Mulberry and turquoise and spalted maple

Here is a link to some earlier wood I posted. It was from a pretty young tree and lacked the dark brown and black. This new wood has more of the darker color because it is older.

http://www.penturners.org/forum/f18/hit-jackpot-68122/

Sharon
 
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I would like a small surplus if you don't mind... maybe a couple wine stoppers, and a few pen kits, what ever you can spare or shove in a small flat rate usps box. I will PM you my info.
 
It is hard to fit wine bottle stopper blanks in a small flat rate box, but I can put it in a flat rate padded envelope for the same price.

Sharon.
 
pics of mulberry blanks

Here are the first few blanks I cut from the mulberry. They were cut from a small knob I sliced off the side of a limb. I put them in the dehydrator to speed dry. Usually takes about 4 days.

 
CharlesJohnson said:
Thanks Sharon for confirming the dehydrator for drying wood. I had considered this for a long time.Beautiful wood.
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I dried the blanks for 4 days. First day no heat, then 100 degrees for 3 days, running 24hrs a day.

I turned the first one today. It was perfectly dry all the way through. (sawdust from drilling was dry).

These were 3/4 inch blanks. With 1 inch blanks, I dry them about a week. I have about a hundred 1" blanks in there now.

Here is the first pen made from one of the blanks shown above. Mulberry with turquoise infill on a TN Gold and gunmetal LeRoi special
 

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Sharon,
You're offer is very gracious. If you have pen blanks available, I'd like to request a small flats rate box. PM me the information for shipping.
Thank you,
 
These blanks will be dry about next weekend. PM me and I will PM you back when they are ready to ship.

Sharon
 
Man, cutting this stuff up is a bear! I don't have a riser in my bandsaw, so everything has to be slabbed with a chainsaw to about 5" thick, then cut up on the band saw. It is green wood, and my poor little electric chainsaw has to work really hard. My tree trimmer friend is going to come over with his 48" chainsaw and hack some of it up for me. I can't handle the big gas chainsaws. (I'm almost 70 years old, and have RA).
 
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Mulberry blanks

All the current batch is spoken for. I will post when another batch is almost ready. It will be 2 weeks or so.

Sharon
 
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