Elm wood ? - FineWoodworking
Nov 8, 2003 · Rich, all of the elms (and also their close cousin hackberry) have similar anatomy and interlocked grain. They differ in density and also in color, in that American elm is the softest and lightest colored of the bunch. It tends to be creamy white, with gray highlights in …
Finishing Elm - FineWoodworking
Dec 28, 2007 · sand and clean, stain if you'd like, wash coat with shellac to seal the color in (one part shellac, two or three parts denatured alcohol). Apply and remove filler as required. When dry, and give it at least three days to cure, seal with shellac. You can use the shellac as a final finish or go ahead and varnish over it.
Red Elm - FineWoodworking
Jul 16, 2003 · Elm has been judged the juvinle deliquent of woods. Known to attack innocent woodworkers in their sleep causing near fatal infections.. capable of turning to decay when someone spits on the sidewalk in town.. prone to warp twist and in general dance around like a hootcie-cootchie dancer on drugs.
Using Elm for cutting boards? - Chef Forum
Nov 30, 2019 · Dutch Elm Disease killed off most American Elm trees starting in the 1930's making it very hard to find a healthy Elm tree these days. So, using it for commercially produced items such as cutting boards is rather cost prohibitive. If your friend is willing to part with some wood so you can make a cutting board, definitely do it.
Siberian Elm - FineWoodworking
Apr 27, 2002 · Juglans, the elms have a very attractive, subtly ring-porous figure and, because they produce interlocked grain, quartersawn stock yields a ribbon grain pattern. Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila) is a little less blond (more of a tan color) and denser than our native American elm (AKA gray elm.) All of the elms are somewhat unstable in that they tend ...
Stain/color elm - FineWoodworking
May 17, 2005 · Stain/color elm. jimhamster | Posted in Finishing on May 16, 2005 10:17am. I’m making a small bookshelf for my daughter out of elm, with a Carpathian elm burl veneer door panel. I’ve never worked with elm before and was actually impressed with it’s milling characteristics. Now that it’s time to choose a stain or dye and finish, I’m ...
chinese elm - FineWoodworking
Jun 28, 2003 · Gooms, elm is a very pretty wood. It's ring-porouse, like oak and ash, but the larger earlywood pores form a much thinner band (in most elms this band is only one, or at most two cells wide.) Also, the smaller pores in the latewood are joined to form fine, wavy, tangential lines. The result is that the flat sawn figure is more subtle and ...
What to do with green Elm? - FineWoodworking
Oct 15, 2008 · One reason why elm had a role in wooden battleships, even though it is classed as a 'non-durable' wood is its interlocked grain. A cannon ball hitting oak, a favoured wood for shipbuilding, had a fair chance of splitting the part asunder for the same reason oak rives so well. Elm could withstand cannon ball hits much better. Slainte.
Red Elm - Good for exterior projects? - FineWoodworking
May 18, 2006 · Add white oak to your list. White Oak is about as rot resistant as you can find,, it is relatively inexpensive. Around here it sells for 80 cents a bd.ft. but I suspect if you thought red elm at $2.00 was a deal then your price should be closer to three or four dollars.
Using elm as substrate for oak question. - FineWoodworking
Jun 9, 2002 · As to the interlocking grain this is probably why it is the premier wood for bowl turning.I have also read it is second only to Hickory when it comes to shock absorbtion properties.Somewhat surprisingly I have never seen drumsticks fashioned from elm.Mostly just Hickory and Japanese oak,Jazz sticks use Maple because of its lightness,of course ...