Osage Orange picture frames #1: The wood has arrived

I like it, but with this style it looks like you will have to cut four miters per corner. Double the room for error. Ouch! Looks like a challenge. Good luck, and I’ll be following your blog.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

Well, being from “Bodock” country, I would suggest you make sure you have sharp tools when you start working with Osage orange (bodock, bois d’arc, horse apple, hedge apple). That stuff will eat tungsten carbide for breakfast and high-speed steel for a mid-morning snack. I have a couple of 1/2 inch, $35 band saw blades with no teeth to bare witness.

Love the look of this wood. It turns beautifully.

Good luck. Post your photos of the finished project. I look forward to seeing them. Oh, welcome to LJ.

-- Makin' Sawdust!!!

looks like good planing look forward to more progress

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Osage how do you pronounce it is it OH Saij or osa geh Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Alistair, it is pronounced like your first guess, oh saij.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

http://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/wood-species-2/osage-orange/

Here is a short story about Osage Orange or Bowdark or Bodock.

-- Makin' Sawdust!!!

Thanks Sawdust! Looks like I’m in for a treat… of sharpening that is.

-- Finding satisfaction in creation

can’t wait to see the finished product. great design

-- -Jon

Have fun. Osage orange is a nice hard wood. It does change color over time so don’t expect the yellow color to stay that way forever.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I’m finally getting some of them glued up, over a month later… Pics and project to come.

-- Finding satisfaction in creation