Hackberry

[D6c]

I've got a small stack of hackberry that's been drying for a year or so.  Is there much value in it or should I just saw it up into stickers, which is what I was thinking of doing?


I planed up  a few pieces....not really my taste, but didn't know what it's usually used for.

 

[YellowHammer]

Spalted hackberry sells to woodworkers. It's not in high demand, but sells.  

[Larry]

I like hackberry if it is sawed the day its felled and dried properly so it doesn't develop stain.  I've made several projects with it but could never sell the lumber.

If not sawed and dried promptly, it goes through a really ugly dirty grey stage where its only use is pallets or such.

Later it develops nice black spalt lines and can be sold.  An Amish wood dealer shows up at all of the area woodcarving/woodturning shows with lots of spalted hackberry.  It usually sells good.

[D6c]

Well, the small stack I had is now stickers. The quality wasn't  the best, but quite a bit had black lines which I guess is spalting.  The logs had been dozed out and layed quite a while.

[xlogger]

Is hackberry harder to saw after it lays around for awhile? I pickup up a log that I was thinking about cutting into live edge slabs but was thinking maybe if I put it back in the woods and left it along for few months or so maybe it would spalt. This is my first hackberry. 

[WDH]

Spiral grain, warps bad like sweetgum.  In the elm family. 

[D6c]

Not difficult to saw but tends to warp, especially bad around branches.