Opened up a Mt. Juniper slab.

[deeker]

The trees look like our Western Juniper, the wood looks more like Red Cedar, which is pretty soft in comparison to W. Juniper . I've got tons of Juniper to work with, trying to figure what's best for treatment, do have a small local kiln I can look in to. Don't care for the unmilled/knarled variety of design, but lot's of cull wood in any case. How are you going to keep that from checking to beat all?

Looks good

Some Western Juniper

My best friend is Anchorseal.

Almost completely stops end checking.

 

[ChainsawmanXX]

Hey Deek,
I'm definately not an expert on all the different types of Juniper, but I do enjoy milling what I can get my hands on. What does the bark look like on the Juniper you milled up?
Most of what we have is localy called "Alligator bark Juniper", looks like this.

Yours has way less sap wood, so I'm sure it's different.
Here's a pic of a wall I did with Juniper in our "never ending remodel".

It actually has more of a red tint than the picture shows.

Andy

Wow the first picture looks alot like Persimmon bark.

 

[BlueRider]

Yes, I stole that pic.

Here are some pics with the bark on a large log.

Some our our "Mt. Juniper" which I call cedar....has scaly bark.

That log is not worth the trouble to mill. Burn it as firewood and save yourself the heart ache of having a piece of furniture made from a spirl grain log blow apart

 

[BobL]

Down under loggers have a saying,
"twist to the left she'll be right - twist to the right she'll be left"
Maybe it's different in the northern hemisphere?