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- Acacia wood - Sawmill Creek
For example, Here in AZ, Willow Acacia, is a common landscape tree, the wood is rather soft and walnut colored, Shoestring Acacia wood is soft and boreing, Sweet Acacia is hard as nails with white sapwood and redbrown heartwood So I imagine it would be important to know which variety of Acacia your dealing with
- Laser Engraved Acacia Wood - Sawmill Creek
I'm having some difficulties getting the results I want on acacia wood The products we received have a light stain and some sort of clear varnish on them They were not supposed to be stained, but they're here and now we have to work with them Also, the wood is much more inconsistent than the samples we successfully engraved The issue I'm
- Acacia lumber?? - Sawmill Creek
As another poster mentioned it's a big family with lots of "trees" in it I put trees in quotes becuase many true acacia's are more shrub-like As for acacia in the US, there may be some, but the most popular is probably rubina psuedoacacia which is not a true acacia (hence the psuedo) and more commonly referred to as black locust Boy those
- Source for Acacia wood or substitute. . . - Sawmill Creek
A friend has asked me to help build a piece to match his daughter's Acacia wood dining furniture My initial search for availability of Acacia in the Kansas City area yielded no results It would be greatly appreciated iff someone knows of a local source, or can suggest an appropriate substitute lumber Thanks, Andy Haney
- Kitchen Cabinets with Acacia Floors - sawmillcreek. org
I make cabinets for a contractor who I can't talk out of that I love stuff made from beautiful wood -- gorgeous wood with lots of grain and color variations Y'know, all the beauty that Mom Nature puts into wood Alder is a rather quiet wood with little color or grain, and putting stain on it further suppresses any character it might have
- Black Acacia - Sawmill Creek
Seems to be popular for making guitars My little wood reference book says about this wood "Gluing variable - make sure you experiment with glue before assembly " Since I have a request for a project that uses this wood, I'm trying to find out more Is there anyone here who's used Black Acacia and can comment on gluing issues you had - or didn
- Anyone Turn Black Locust? - Sawmill Creek
Black Locust is very closely related to Honey Locust and Redbud, the name Robinia pseudoacacia, tells that the tree is very much like an Acacia, and it is part of the bean family Wood fibers are cross-linked like in Elm, and the wood is very rot resistant when in ground contact, good fence post , better for turning wood IMO
- Which woods do, and dont, engrave well - Sawmill Creek
The list of wood species that I feel don't engrave well are Pine and Oak because of their grain or low resin content Some pine species won't burn at all like very old Heart Pine, you can get plenty of depth but no contrast at all As you can see I haven't had experience with many exotic species
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