Bdnoble84 Posted November 18 Report Share Posted November 18 I have some wood that is confounding me. It Cedar. My neighbor that has a woodmill gave me a plank. It has wierd divisional coloring to me. Whats more i did some calculations on a couple of squares. The density is not making sense to me on top of the different colorations. The density of these two squares is wierd. They are .45 and .48 and .46. Cedar is expected to be .375. The piece i had befor from menard was .4. Much closer to standard expectation. I made about 20 blanks. If anyone has any thoughts i would love to hear them. I am attaching pictures of the wood and calculations. Second picture is of the original cedar calculation for the cedar i got from menards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted November 18 Report Share Posted November 18 Not a wood expert, but believe the light stuff is sap wood and the dark stuff is heartwood. If it was me would only use the heartwood. Arne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdnoble84 Posted November 18 Author Report Share Posted November 18 1 hour ago, Arne said: Not a wood expert, but believe the light stuff is sap wood and the dark stuff is heartwood. If it was me would only use the heartwood. Arne. Thank you. I will do some research on that, but what you say makes sense. I didnt mention, my blanks are as much as nearly a gram different in weight. I will play with a couple but since i am going for a consistent batch and wanting to play more with lip placement/angle variables, I may put them off to the side for now and get something more consistant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted November 18 Report Share Posted November 18 Knots are much heavier than clear wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdnoble84 Posted November 23 Author Report Share Posted November 23 Figured it out i think. This is most likely eastern red cedar. When i looked up density, it was suggested to be .45. I will still make a few bait and see what it does. It will float and wiggle, just not with the same boyancy. That isnt always a bad thing. I dont need as much weight to get neutrality if i want that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jigmeister Posted November 30 Report Share Posted November 30 I was going to say it is so dark it looks like incense cedar instead of Western Red cedar . Cut a lot of downed western cedar trees for firewood and never saw any of it that looked like the wood in the pictures you posted . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
