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Turkey Calls => Call Making => Topic started by: longbearded1 on May 07, 2019, 02:26:55 PM

Title: Black Palm wood?
Post by: longbearded1 on May 07, 2019, 02:26:55 PM
Anybody turned any of this wood? Do I need to worry about a reaction to it?
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: outdoors on May 07, 2019, 05:35:06 PM
I haven't  but j understood it's very hard to turn even with sharp tools
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: misfire on June 20, 2019, 03:55:09 PM
I have turned a lot of it over the years with no adverse reaction. However, I highly recommend stabilizing it first. It is a very open grained wood that is very prone to tear out
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: KentuckyHeadhunter on June 20, 2019, 06:09:50 PM
Quote from: misfire on June 20, 2019, 03:55:09 PM
I have turned a lot of it over the years with no adverse reaction. However, I highly recommend stabilizing it first. It is a very open grained wood that is very prone to tear out


Haha yeah I remember when it broke your drill bit a couple years ago on one you were making for me.  But you made me a great one after that happened!  Black palm is so dense the headhunters in the pacific islands once used it for their war clubs. 
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: misfire on June 21, 2019, 08:47:28 AM
Quote from: KentuckyHeadhunter on June 20, 2019, 06:09:50 PM
Quote from: misfire on June 20, 2019, 03:55:09 PM
I have turned a lot of it over the years with no adverse reaction. However, I highly recommend stabilizing it first. It is a very open grained wood that is very prone to tear out


Haha yeah I remember when it broke your drill bit a couple years ago on one you were making for me.  But you made me a great one after that happened!  Black palm is so dense the headhunters in the pacific islands once used it for their war clubs.

Got another blank on the shelf, waiting on a day to turn when I am mad at myself.
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: ol bob on June 21, 2019, 09:26:24 AM
If you have it stabilized you will love it if you don't you want ever want to see another piece of it.
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: espo16 on July 13, 2019, 07:50:29 PM
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Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: espo16 on July 13, 2019, 07:51:14 PM
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Post by: Mcduckin on July 13, 2019, 08:01:54 PM
Those look nice !
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Post by: outdoors on July 13, 2019, 08:42:37 PM
Wow I wonder what the   porcupine looks like.
Title: Re: Black Palm wood?
Post by: Sir-diealot on July 14, 2019, 12:40:55 AM
Quote from: espo16 on July 13, 2019, 07:50:29 PM
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Was in a pen with a couple of friends they were training their coyote dogs in and you heard the dog yip and he came running by me with a full face of quills. Don't think I have ever felt so sorry for an animal in my life, we had to get them out of him, he had quills in his gums and everything.
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