My First Time Sawing Honey Locust
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Now you know what I went through. Except I split mine by hand
Look at it under UV, it glows green
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 I know Black Locust glows, was not aware that Honey Locust did. Milled a Honey Locust earlier this year, now I'm going to have to buy a black light!
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Not all trees can be worthwhile milling up. Tree of heaven (stink tree) checks when it dries, and the cracks look similar to ring shake. If dried very slowly, maybe it could work, but it's a lightweight, weak wood, and yes, it stinks.
It's a good day when Matt Cremona uploads a sawmill video
Not only is it heavy and hard, it dulls tools like CRAZY. But man is that some beautiful wood.
I've sawn quite a few honey locust here in the Ozarks. Beautiful grain. You're right. Very dense. Extremely rot resistant. Deadly thorns too.
That disconnected ring shake made a natural single board river table .
honey locust is one of the prettiest woods you can work with in my opinion
Go ahead pause it and count the rings.. I love your sense of humor!
So glad to see you sawing again.
You have built yourself a awesome mill, thanks for the video.
Love it!!! So nice that such a beautiful log doesn’t go to waste.
Black locust trees were used years ago for fence posts. It's also very hard wood. In my adolescent years I was given a 'character-building' chore of hand sawing a pile of old locust posts into firewood lengths. Stuff was hard as rock.
Yup, hard , heavy and dense. Gorgeous but not the easiest to work.
Glad you got a new video out. I for some reason can watch any big band saw wood. So thanks.
Honey locusts makes beautiful flooring
I had a big Honey locust tree cut down at my house. It was only a couple inches narrower than that one. Its a pretty hard and dense wood. I mostly made bowls from it but got tired of that and slabbed some out with my Alaskan chain saw mill. The tree had a ton of stress in it and most of the bowls cracked during the drying process. My basement had the sweet smell to it for a while when I was roughing the green bowls out
Great seeing you again sawing some logs. This is some beautiful wood, I wouldn’t have thought it would be this great looking. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
Now you're talking Matt!!! This wood is awesome. I can see a nice bookcase with book matched sides with a slab of this. Good to see you posting videos of slabbing again, we learn stuff from these vids.
Wood is what brings the colors and art, Matt brings the excellent humor and personality. Thx Matt. Bring on the smell-a-Vision
When the water spills on the slab 👌 love it
One of my favorite woods to build furniture with. Pairs well with walnut accents. Side note, part of the wood glows in a black light. Really neat to see for the first time.
Very nice surprises !
Just love the colors in this wood!!!
I really love the colors in that wood allot !
Yes-sir-ee,
That is a classic Locust tree right there Matt.
Having been in the tree trimming and landscaping industries my self I have seen a lot of the trees from that family, and you have probably seen a few of them too, but like myself, the thought of how the cousin of the Honey Locust likes to grow in clusters and many times they grow so close together they look almost like there was a fork in the tree going from the base of the tree. The Black Locust is the most common of the family around here in the Ohio Valley region and the English Locust, which for the most part is a transplanted Hybrid from Europe I believe. The first thing I thought was that this tree had been hit by a car or truck, or maybe storm damage could have been the culprit, then after you had the second cut on it the sight of a bark inclusion reminded me of how they grow in tight groups and it probably had grown up and overtaken one of its siblings that had sprouted up about 50 years later, once it had closed over it, it caused the splitting of the original one. It does have some very beautiful color and grain patterns in it which in Black Locust as well as Honeys, you hardly see a lot of due to the very slow rates of growth. It been nice to have gotten more of that tree there since it was such a large one. If you could show how it has aged since slabbing it that be cool too, Black Locust turn a deep yellowish color from what I've seen but most people make fence post from them since they are like cedars and don't rot very fast stuck in the ground.
Here in Ga I have never seen a Honey Locust but it is pretty darn nice stuff.Thanks for sharing.
Discovered back in '15 how nice this 'locust wood' is. Found some chunks (smaller than what you have of course), seasoned it and cut it down so I have made shelfs and picture frames out of it and loved how it looks.
I just found you recently and love to watch the beauty that's in the wood and the way you explain to your viewers about the wood
Awesome, thank you!
I've cut a lot of honey locust for flooring but never seen one that big! Definitely gorgeous wood and super durable too.
thank you Matt. wow great wood
Matt thats some beautiful wood. Stay safe.
Hi, Matt! Really enjoyed seeing the inside of this log. That's really pretty wood. ~ I hope some of the people I've referred to you have shown up. I think I'm your one-woman PR team in Atlanta, lol. Any time ANYone I watch on YT buys or rents a sawmill or begins to make their own wooden furniture from scratch, I recommend your channel. I've learned SO much from you.
Love milling honeylocust it’s beautiful
Been missing these. Edutainment always learn something, I get to see all those weird things cut. Thanks
Thanks for sharing with us Matt. That turned out great. Fred 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
I recently got a piece of black locust , made 3 pieces of wall art .Oh ya hi from LONDON ,Ont Matt I think you know this place !!!!
Nice looking log
Nice work, heck of a mill!
Wow! That grain is beautiful 😍
Beautiful beautiful log!
I love watching your videos! I've been on the fence aboout planting honey locust, but after seeing what the wood looks like I'm definitely going to plant a few.
Make sure to plant the thornless variety. The thorns can puncture a tank tread.
Nice slabs. Wiki has it at a Janka 1580 - harder than Maple. If you use it on a project, please let us know how it is to work with and if it changes color like walnut. Thanks Matt.
I have some in a wooded area of my yard and when they bloom they smell fantastic.
Yes they do!! We had a bunch of them in our backyard growing up on the farm when I was a kid and I can tell you it’s one of the best smells in the whole wide world. 😂 brings back a lot of memory’s
Beautiful!
Gorgeous Wood!!!
Man, that quarter/rift grain at 15:55 is amazing.
No doubt QS honeylocust is great looking stuff, I've used it in a few projects now. Im not a fan of the yellow sapwood though as it can look dirty with lots of black specs and that it surface checks (sometimes pretty bad) during air drying.
That aside, HL is hard, rot resistant and beautiful wood. Good choice for indoor or outdoor furniture. I use it for bunking lumber also. Here in southern WI we have a ton of it in the urban streets. Great biggins' too
That's a beautiful wood. Entertaining and informative as always!
That is some beautiful wood. I didn't realize Honey Locust was that unique.
Gorgeous stuff! I’d love to see more unusual species sawn.
I made a river table out of some Honey Locus wood. It is a beautiful wood to use.
Haven't heard you that excited about a log in a while. It's pretty awesome though. ✌️👍
Greetings from Southern AZ. nice straightforward video. most woods for custom milling are dependent on where they grow, here mesquite is popular but given were USDA zone 9a and sunset zone 12 things need frost tolerance and heat tolerance, so mesquite, desert pines (Allepo, stone, canary island or higher elevations doug fir/poderosa pine). but black walnut, sycamore, ash, oak, red/chineese pistachio, euclyptus, osage orange, ironwood, pecan etc are possible here go north to warmer phoenix and add exotic tropical imports like east Indian rosewood. its interesting to note Honey locust is a recommend plant here (5 cultivars) but I cant recall ever seeing one, mesquite, acacia, and palo verde are much more widely planted. . most trees here are more valuable as shade than lumber so what turns up is usually an over watered or other problem tree via a tree service.
I've had 2 I hated to cut for fire wood but that's what happened very nice looking wood. From the mid Atlantic sewer area.
Very beautiful wood
Those edge pieces from the ring shake will make beautiful hammer/ax handles.
Great video 👍 just turned a bowl out of Honey locust
Very attractive slabs.
Great vid, as always!
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
David Davis!! I'm pretty sure I see your comments 5... strike that... 3 days a week now at Lumnah Acres. I wouldn't have known it was you except that you mentioned central FL. I think I told you before I pretty much grew up in Ocala. When the title of Matt's latest said he was going to saw a Honey Locust, I knew I had to watch, whether it's past my bedtime or not. Loved seeing your comment at the top of the stack!
@@TXNLaurenMcN Howdy Lauren! 👋 Seems we both have great taste in RUclips creators! Thank you for saying hello! Hope you have a great weekend ahead of you! See ya in the comments 😁
Soon to be heading back to Vt. You have a good summer.
Matt honey locust are very common street trees here (wi) and they are gorgeous yard trees. My neighbor had a couple taken down and it all went for fire wood or chips. It was very heavy wood. Black (not sure about honey) is invasive. The stuff is very rot resistant and can last a long long time.
That’s some beautiful grain. I wouldn’t mind having a workbench top made out of the second and third slabs!
I think that is some of the prettiest slabs I have seen you mill on your bandsaw
I always wanted to see what Black Locust looks like sawn for lumber. The Honey Locust is interesting too.
Beautiful wood. Will make someone a nice unique project.
Wow, this is a MONSTER MILL!
We have TONS of this in West Central Indiana. Basically considered a "trash tree". Great for fence posts. But between the thorns that go through boot soles, truck tires and anything else, it's notorious for "eating" chain saw blades, saw blades, and axes in very short order.
Very beautiful log. Love your videos.
Thanks!
Would make some gorgeous tops for small tables or panels for cabinet doors.
Usually just top notch firewood, neat to see it sawn up.
120 years and you got a fun thing going for you
You didn't have spiky thorns to worry about. We got lots of those around here. Blood sacrifice required to remove one. Through a glove, through your boot or heavy denim, it's gonna happen.
I wouldn't describe them as thorns. They're straight up daggers.
Amen to that brother!! 😂
Pause and count the rings. I love it.
Because this tree has "defects" it would normally be sent to a wood chipper or left to rot. You have given it a chance at a second life as a beautiful piece of furniture. Great job as always, Matt.
On the one hand I get a little angry about this, because decent wood is not easy to come by where I live. On the other hand, there’s literally no waste: chipped wood still serves a purpose, and leaving it to rot is not a bad thing either, environmentally speaking.
What does grind my gears is something I was once told when looking for a kitchen worktop: the guy told me that they get laminated oak boards that are roughly 48 inches wide, and if a customer wants a piece that is wider than the standard 24 inch kitchen top, they’ll throw the rest into the wood chipper, because they’re unlikely to find a buyer for the narrow piece. That’s insane: 10 foot long laminated strips of beautiful oak: top quality shelving or a dozen very nice cutting boards right there, and they’re grinding it up. You can buy the rest at a heavy discount, but most people don’t.
Always great
Thx
There is a lot of this and black locust in Northern Illinois. I'd love to get some some time.
WELL HEYA MATE, lol that is one heck of a nice Honey Locust, it's a lucky thing it's a male or you be sword fighting with that thing tooth and nail, Hope you've been having a great time getting settled in at the new place and hope you all had a good mothers day too.
Now will see how cool this beautiful-looking log is and maybe chat ya'lls ears off about it at the end of the video too.
Honey Locust works beautifully with hand tools. You do have to clean up your blades quite a bit, but nothing like hickory or black locust. I would love to use some in larger projects...only been able to do some smaller carvings and such with the stuff
The sapwood makes great axe handles-harder than hickory. Also good as bow staves. The heartwood however is brittle.
I see you splurged and bought a new bucket. It works good.
Sweet wood. I’m a fan.
That is beautiful wood.
really nice log for a locust
I may try to mill some of my honey locust, but dang those thorns.
Good looking lumber
My son has honey locust and black locust on his farm land in Central Virginia. I'm going to use some for knife handles.
I'm just going through some honey locust right now. Not as big as yours, but I've got three of them. Mine was incredibly orange inside.
Kentucky Coffee tree looks just as nice on the inside with out the thorns on the outside
When I mill my logs I give all the burls a name. They're all called Milton.
That tree reminds me of a colydascope. Great find and cut as usual. Price of wood just went up!!! Haha. Good stuff
Kaleidoscope
Honey Locust - supposedly rot resistant and great for fence posts... Very dense and heavy. The bark looks different than what I know as Locust here in Missouri, but the tendancy for shakes and ant-holes is identical. Lots of big black ants pour out when cutting... Tough mostly for firewood
Very pretty wood. It will make great tables, with a bit of epoxy.
Shake shake shake... (horn section) shake shake shake... Nice log!
With lumber prices being what they are you have a cool million in wood there! Haha! Very nice looking wood, thanks for sharing.
I got a bunch of black locust and mulberry logs I need cut up. Wish you were closer. 😢
Ever cut sassafras? It smells like working in a root beer factory 😂
That's beautiful
Make a beautiful table top!
Sweet!!!!
See this species street planted in a lot of euro cities in recent years lovely shade tree . Great video lovely colours an ideal use for guitar back n sides and neck?
When we had our sawmill and plenty of sources for native hardwood logs we cut up things like locust, sycamore, red oak. white oak and anything else local to N. Indiana. We decided at some point that a Belsaw sawmill was probably a little too dangerous and sold it.
can you explain how you would work with this wood with all the defects as you point out?
Ever cut Hackberry on the mill?? I have about a 40' trunk 30-40" diameter that I will be cutting into 8-10' logs. If not would love to bring them to the mill!
The center of the 2nd piece after you flipped the log over looked like unit had a teepee image. Really cool. As to the fragrance it isn't called honey locust for the color of its bark. :)