Milled Some Wide Catalpa- Beautiful Wood, WOW!

[jerrycmorrow]

yeah, my dad was from PA so guess that's where he learned it. nah, 55 not old, but getting there.

 

[MNTAINGAL23]

Here are some pics of an example of what i might build out of slabs like these from the Catalpa.

We got some awhile back. I like the way it smells. Reminds me of a furniture store that has real wood furniture.
I like the tables you made. Beautiful!!

 

[john taliaferro]

55 is still know it all ,65 is know it better use the winch . I got the wards saw for a small mill but a 460 been on it and doing ok . may take wards to stumpy get it FIXED .

 

[redoakneck]

My neighbor used to be an engineer for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. He would make mock ups of things like the space shuttle to the bridge of a nuke sub. He said when they needed to make frame work they used Catalpa because it looked kinda like Oak but was very light. He said it had pretty good structural strength, Joe.

I bet that dude could get some stuff done, I can not imagine all the cool toys in that lab!!! I worked for Xaviers' physics lab when I was in school there and man I miss all the great equipment I was able to use. Fixed all kinds of stuff!!!!


Johns Hopkins very well respected in the physics world.

I have milled some really nice Sycamore but not so sure it is demanded much.