It has long-lasting durability. Extremely tough and resilient. To do the gluing, you need to lightly coat the surfaces with glue then assemble them hickory wood for turning 10 brief moment before pulling apart. Joined Nov 5, Messages 24 Likes 0. It is important to have woodworking experience prior to working with the wood hidkory in the building process, this can be quite finicky.

Good luck. Actually they all cracked but one I turned the neck off and saved it. Nate Hawkes. I've turned several maybe or so? Both turned very well, but as Mark mentioned, it seems to be prone to checking. I found after losing a couple to large cracks, that tiny little checks that you missed turn into large, open cracks when drying. I still got a few cracks around the tenons which I left on during drying to make sanding easier. The wood I turned was much too wet to sand right away.

I made a couple very nice sets of spalted hickory that had amazing color--they are in my gallery. The rest of the tree was just whitish bland hickory colored. This spalting had no soft spots, amazingly!

Right now I have a few pecan bowls drying. Now you think hickory is hard, try pecan a type of hickory, really One last thing I should mention is that it moved a lot during drying. So much that when I thought it was dry and removed the tenons, a couple wobbled a bit after the moisture content in the finished bowl equalized I've had the same problem with American Beech.

The concave bottoms seemed to reverse themselves Joe Meirhaeghe. Joined Nov 5, Messages 24 Likes 0. Here's my latest piece of hickory Here's my latest piece of hickory. It's 11" tall. I've turned many pecan in the hickory family pieces. When dry, it's a very hard wood, but turns well. Much of the wood I got from a friend spalted - here's one that started at an about 80 lbs blank. Dave Ogren. I am fairly new 51 bowls I had a shagbark hickory fall down about a month ago because of too muck rain, the root ball came out of the ground and is over 10' tall.

At chest height the tree dia. Has a very long life - up to years. Extremely tough and resilient. May be somewhat difficult to work with hand tools. Hickory looks very nice when finished.

Heartwood tends to be light to medium brown, with a reddish hue; sapwood is a paler yellowish brown. Hickory is among the hardest and strongest of woods native to the United States. The wood is commonly used where strength or shock-resistance is important. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was popularly nicknamed Old Hickory, a play on the toughness of hickory wood. Palo Verde Tucson, AZ tucson woodworkerssource.

Phoenix nphx woodworkerssource. Tempe tempe woodworkerssource. Tucson tucson woodworkerssource. Forgot password? Create an account. Check Order Status. Start by checking out our lumber deals. Track Order. Shop All Lumber. Baltic Birch Shop the Selection. Hardwood Plywood Shop the Selection. Melamine Sheets Shop the Selection. Lumber Packs Ground Shipping Included! Lumber Domestic Lumber Hickory. Don't be fooled, hickory can be difficult to manipulate by hand, but it looks wonderful when finished.

Color Range White cream with brown streaks to tan. What's the Tree Like? A large tree with a massive trunk reaches heights of feet with feet diameters.

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