Someone I know wants anything pen to bowl size.
Blue spruce?
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I had a tree I took down last spring and tried turning some. So full of sap pockets, I stopped 5 minutes in and burned the whole tree.
Edit: I'm sure not all trees are as bad as the one I tried, but doubt anyone commercially will have any. If I worked at it, I'm sure I could have found pieces that didn't have as much pitch in them and made some very nice pieces, but it's not worth the time and extreme mess for a very ordinary white softwood.
Edit: I'm sure not all trees are as bad as the one I tried, but doubt anyone commercially will have any. If I worked at it, I'm sure I could have found pieces that didn't have as much pitch in them and made some very nice pieces, but it's not worth the time and extreme mess for a very ordinary white softwood.
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with high winds we have had and very wet ground- many blue and other spruce bit the dust. Shallow roots and dense foliage- they go over easy. Spokane probably lost 1/3 of mature spruce in 2015- record winds just rolled them over. I helped neighbor push one out of street, it leaked pitch out wherever it broke or was cut. made a mess out of chain and bar.. not even good firewood
I will ask the wife to keep and eye out for some. We just burned a wheel barrel full 2 weeks ago and some Norway spruce this week. We likely will come across plenty more seasoned spruce as winter progresses.
I found seasoned Blue spruce sample blanks on the porch this week. They would work for pen blanks.
You might want to double check that they want Blue spruce and not blue stained spruce.
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Wasn’t me. Was someone else. I’ll let her know. Thanks.