Mullberry ?

[dustyhat]

Is there a market for it? i saved the log but was wondering if i need to go get the other bigger peices before the firewood guys get to it ? if its worth anything i will saw it. maby can save some turning blanks. just wondering.

[firefighter ontheside]

Pretty color.  Hard and heavy.  I would say yes.
https://www.wood-database.com/mulberry/

[tmbrcruiser]

I have a few mulberry logs and will market them with persimmon as shop table tops.

[Brad_bb]

I use it personally.  Timberframe braces, woodworking whatever...  It's a hardwood.  It's yellow and oxidizes to a rust brown.

[LeeB]

Very similar to and related to osage/hedge. 

[WDH]

Yes.  Mulberry does not have the pores occluded with tyloses.  Osage does.  One way to tell them apart by the wood alone. 

[LeeB]

Learn stuff on here every day. Another difference is that I would eat mulberry fruit.  :D

[WDH]

No osage oranges for me either.  Love mulberries, too.  I find the wood especially nice. 

[Brad_bb]

Now that you say that, hedge apples do kinda look like giant mulberries that aren't ripe yet.

Mulberry not nearly as dense as osage, for sure.  Not as hard.  Same color wood almost.  Spiral grain like osage.  Well, maybe not spriral, but it changes directions alot like osage.  Both are prone to tear out when planed.  Carbide segmented spiral cutters might help that.

[bluthum]

Mulberry is an outstanding cabinet wood I'd rank with cherry or walnut. It's too uncommon to have a following though, so a hard sell. Also it has very strong resistance to rot.

I've also noticed that it seems very resonant when you whack too pieces [well dried] together making me wonder if it has special acoustical qualities? 

[esteadle]

Mulberry is an outstanding cabinet wood I'd rank with cherry or walnut. It's too uncommon to have a following though, so a hard sell. Also it has very strong resistance to rot.

I've also noticed that it seems very resonant when you whack too pieces [well dried] together making me wonder if it has special acoustical qualities?

I had a fellow who came by last year for some big chunks of beech. 
He saw a big mulberry I had waiting on the second pile, and said he would buy it and wanted it quarter-sawn. 
So we did. We gave him all the triangles too. He wanted every piece pretty much. 
He restores harpsichords and the reeds are made of quartersawn mulberry. He hand carves them. 
Could probably make a xylophone out of it too. 

[firefighter ontheside]

Several years ago I bought 4 nice slabs of 6/4 mulberry.  It's just sitting in my shop waiting for the right project.  Not sure when that will be.  I like to look at it occasionally.

[Pepe_Silvia]

The color does change pretty drastically, for better or worse.  Made my wife a cutting board about a year and a half ago from a mulberry tree that was taken down at her grandma's house.  Here are pictures comparing what it looked like shined up the day I finished it vs. what it looks like now. 


 


 

[WDH]

Even though the color oxidizes and browns out, it is still very pretty to me.

[LeeB]

I agree on the colorization becoming pretty and it will continue to darken as time goes by become a rich red brown. 

[K-Guy]

There is always a market beautiful wood. It's rarity will add to the price you can charge.