anyone familiar with hornbeam???

[BHQ]

just wondering if it is as white as american holly?????
thinking of using it for butterflies

 

[qbilder]

Yes, it's the knarly, muscular looking tree that grows in bottoms & next to streams. It'll grow anywhere beech will grow & is very similar. It grows all over southern Ohio where you are. It's not that white unless you can get it dried properly in a kiln, then it's snow white just like holly. Unlike holly, it is friggin hard as a rock & incredibly strong. The old hillbillies call it "iron wood".

 

[BHQ]

Yes, it's the knarly, muscular looking tree that grows in bottoms & next to streams. It'll grow anywhere beech will grow & is very similar. It grows all over southern Ohio where you are. It's not that white unless you can get it dried properly in a kiln, then it's snow white just like holly. Unlike holly, it is friggin hard as a rock & incredibly strong. The old hillbillies call it "iron wood".

thanks eric
i'll look into geting some of it
good holly is getting harder & harder to find

 

[DBK]

I am well familiar with Hornbeam but I am almost not familiar with an holly. Therefore it is difficult for me to compare. But Hornbeam is good wood. If the hornbeam tree is cut in dry and cold winter that at accurate drying (better kiln than air) it becomes almost white and very dense. In cues for Russian billiards we use hornbeam for shafts and in the basic design of cues on butterflies. The hornbeam has a little bit big porous in comparison with a maple therefore sometimes it is more spoiled with a dust from dark wood than a maple, but simultaneously more rigid and firmer than a maple.

I tested a hornbeam on shafts for pool cues. Results quite good. For the handle it is very good wood. Example of the white hornbeam handle here.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=122091

In Russia is a technology of painting of hornbeam in black color on full depth. Very not bad looks and has no "superfluous" weight as an ebony for example. Here cue with the handle from black hornbeam.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=115584&page=2

 

[BHQ]

I am well familiar with Hornbeam but I am almost not familiar with an holly. Therefore it is difficult for me to compare. But Hornbeam is good wood. If the hornbeam tree is cut in dry and cold winter that at accurate drying (better kiln than air) it becomes almost white and very dense. In cues for Russian billiards we use hornbeam for shafts and in the basic design of cues on butterflies. The hornbeam has a little bit big porous in comparison with a maple therefore sometimes it is more spoiled with a dust from dark wood than a maple, but simultaneously more rigid and firmer than a maple.

I tested a hornbeam on shafts for pool cues. Results quite good. For the handle it is very good wood. Example of the white hornbeam handle here.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=122091

In Russia is a technology of painting of hornbeam in black color on full depth. Very not bad looks and has no "superfluous" weight as an ebony for example. Here cue with the handle from black hornbeam.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=115584&page=2

thank you sir
i bought some, will be here in a few days
anxious to try it