River Birch

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Wow Matt.....nice "PLANK" ya got there! Simply Beautiful!

[kelLOGg]

Beautiful, Mattj. Are you near NCSU? whereabouts?
Bob

[WDH]

Incredibly beautiful wood. 

[MattJ]

I live in Raleigh and went to NCSU for graduate school.  The tree came from the floodplain of the deep river and was standing dead for a few years before we cut it down on my friends property where I bow hunt. 

I took a look at some of the boards I still have and I couldn't get a good picture, but qbilder is certainly correct, the best figure is where its closest to quarter sawn.  Thanks for the feedback, there is still another 6ft section of the tree sitting and I might go check out if its in OK shape and try sawing it.  At the time we had maxed out our trailers.

Matt

[SwampDonkey]

Curly in birch, is quite common. And depending on color of the regular grained birch it can be cherry like, there are even some with the distinctive pink hue. Some of the color in darker birch turns to brown and not pinkish. We usually think of curly in our region in yellow birch. We also get birdseye figure in yellow birch, which is very rare in birch. Both are best flat sawn. We sold to figured buyers in log form, but this one fellow who lives in northern NB, has a website with photos of his figured woods. He helped source white oak from PA, or did the sawing of it, for the water wheel on the saw mill at Kings Landing Historical Settlement.

[Okrafarmer]

I've had a run of customers recently who have moved down here from Alaska  ??? who are pining away after white birch (paper birch) which we do not have here commercially. I show them my river birch and they're not too impressed.  :-\

[SwampDonkey]

One state north of you and all the major birch species grow in the mountains along the TN border. Tell'm to move one state north. ;D ;) I've seen yellow birch in the NC mountains, but not in abundance. I've not been in enough of those woods to say how available it is.

[shelbycharger400]

finding any birch around here is slim,  as is walnut. The red oak is almost all black oak.

ive cut a few short white  birch pieces , warped badly at 1/2 And 1 in. most got burnt