Re: Plumwood

- Original Message - From: Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 6:12 pm Subject: Re: Plumwood >The > biggest distinction in > the growing trees is deciduous versus evergreen - is that at the > familylevel, or a higher one. Much higher, it&

Re: Plumwood

- Original Message - From: Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 6:12 pm Subject: Re: Plumwood > So are you telling me that there is a "family" of woods called > rose, and > that within that are the genus Prunus and the genus D

RE: Plumwood

2005 10:15 AM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: RE: Plumwood A minor clarification: Prunus is the generic name of cherries and plums, e.g., Prunus serotina (the only North American species of importance as a timber producer) is the wild black cherry, Prunus being the genus and serotina the spec

Re: Plumwood

-Original Message- From: Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 9, 2005 3:12 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Plumwood Eugene, > A minor clarification: Prunus is the generic name of cherries and plums, >

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Eugene, > A minor clarification: Prunus is the generic name of cherries and plums, > e.g., Prunus serotina (the only North American species of importance as a > timber producer) is the wild black cherry, Prunus being the genus and > serotina the specific epithet. I believe a number of European Pr

RE: Plumwood

A minor clarification: Prunus is the generic name of cherries and plums, e.g., Prunus serotina (the only North American species of importance as a timber producer) is the wild black cherry, Prunus being the genus and serotina the specific epithet. I believe a number of European Prunus spp. are

Re: Plumwood

A number of replies on this thread, and I thank you gentlemen. I'll try to come back to all in this one message. Yup, it is prunus - I goofed. And I used the plural "genera" instead of "genus". I still don't remember the classifications of taxonomy, but when one comes to wood one needs only genus

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part 2 - US cherry is mostly 'Black Cherry', and is rather softer than most US maples, it has a characteristic grain which takes stain nicely if done in the traditional way. Trees available to 18c woodworkers were very large and made nice bedsteads and other fine furniture, which gave the wo

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>I think cherry would be quite similar, but personally I've only used > plum. I thought the genera was prunus, but I dont have any ref handy, so better look it up. Wood qualitys vary from tree to tree within the same species, across species it is uncommon for woods to be equivalent. I u

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m > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Plumwood >Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:52:59 -0500 > >>Michael, >> >>You mention Plum for pegs, I bit the bullet before starting my "from &

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; > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Plumwood >Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:52:59 -0500 > >>Michael, >> >>You mention Plum for pegs, I bit the bullet before starting my "from >>scrat

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Jon, I think cherry would be quite similar, but personally I've only used plum. Ken Brodkey was telling me he had some cherry but felt it was too soft for pegs, but that might have been that particular piece. The cherry I have seems pretty hard. As far as ribs go, I sometimes have a problem

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"Jon Murphy" schrieb: > You mention Plum for pegs, I bit the bullet before starting my "from > scratch" lute and spent the money for David van Edwards CD course. He has a > rather good discussion of the various woods, and nicely adds the North > American available equiva