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Chinese Tallow
- Thread starter Lou Currier
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I was given some from a club member cause he was allergic to Chinese Tallow. It was a nice spalted piece. The first piece turned out a beautiful bowl. The next piece I turned made my throat close, eyes water, and sneezed for a couple hours. Even with breathing protection, I am too scared to turn the nice rounds I still have on the shelf....
I found a pic before I finished the bowl....
That looks a lot like sweetgum that I have seen locally... pretty stuff!
Same issues for me.
Send everything you guys are to askeerd to turn and stuff you're alergic to, to me. I'll take care of it. I aint lergic to nothin....
Danny, let's not get carried away here about Chinese tallow. It is a weed tree, haha, not an exotic. They do have beautiful Fall color, but as someone mentioned already, they are messy and nasty to have in your yard, hence, I kill all of them in my yard before they get too big, and they come up everywhere. You're lucky to have those hardwood trees. That said, I do like the grain pattern in the pen below or above (sometimes I don't know where I am, haha), and the gray color is okay. Any of us in Florida should be able to help you find a Chinese tallow (also known as a "popcorn" tree due to the bazillion white popcorn-looking seed pods they produce each year). Glad someone tried working with it first, now I'll start looking for some. Another wood that I discovered by accident was Photinia, more commonly known as Red-tipped Photinia. I haven't had a chance to compare it to anything, but judging from the weight of it, it should be hard. Now, I have a few crotch pieces of that already cut. It's normally planted as a privacy hedge, but if you let it go, it will grow into a tree, and the one I cut down had already destroyed the eaves of the house where it was planted. One of my next projects is to go back and dig up the stump.
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I have a bunch
Lou, you got a bunch of Chinese tallow?
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Yeah, but you have to load it, Lou's not allowed to pick up anything heavier than his.................................................................. ink pen!
And, Tony thought I was going to say something else there!
And, Tony thought I was going to say something else there!