Is Oregon Hazelnut wood good for woodworking?

We grow filberts in Oregon (aka Hazelnut LOL)Sorry Bob I’ve never used it on a project. Sorry for the Razz

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Thx Jim, Oregon produces 99% of the nations filberts and it is a fine grained wood. That is about all I found out on the www:-)

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They say it grows into trees, (I’ve only seen shrubs). But I didn’t find anything either.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Things I learned about Hazelnut trees while using my google-fu:

1- They grow fairly quickly, and be cut down every 10 years to the stump (used for lumber) – the tree will resprout
2- They are generally considered not worth cutting down because the nut is expensive enough to keep it
3- The tree does not have to grow very big in order to yield nuts, so the lumber tends to be kind of small
4- http://www.westnut.com/about.php This place keeps track of hazelnut growers in Oregon and has been known to give out timber information to those who call and ask.

From what I could discern, if you’ve got it, it’s good to work with, but nobody wants to sell it.

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we make walking sticks from our English Hazelnut bushs thats all thier good for really they never grow in to trees

-- cut it saw it scrap it SKPE: ANDREW.CARTER69

Hazel nuts here in Water World, aka Wetern WA, are more like big bushes, but i have found one that was cut down with a 12 inch + trunk. That is why i was wondering what kind of trouble I might expect. I suppose i’ll pain the ends, rip it and wait and see ;-) I think it may b e in its latter life cycle. The center of the trunk is starting to rot out.

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Bad news. I thought I was getting some hazel nut, but I have decided it is maple. I didn’t see any maple leaves in the slash piles, but the butt end trunk is too big to be hazelnut and the bark looks like maple. Trouble is all those young hardwood barks look the same ;-(( What I thought were probably hazelnut leaves in the slah pile from a distance turned out to be magnolia upon closer look.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

BTW, thanks for the link Lis.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0