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Offline jmck

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Re: Spalted Hackberry
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2011, 01:32:53 PM »
great looking pot---really like that wood !!!!  *up*

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Re: Spalted Hackberry
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2011, 02:00:58 PM »
Keep an eye out for them no-shouldered SOB's......Thought about you and that encounter a couple times last night and today.....

    I'll bet, you couldn't have gotten a bb up your butt w/ a jackhammer... *lol*

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Re: Spalted Hackberry
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2011, 03:38:32 PM »
Nice!!

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Re: Spalted Hackberry
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2011, 05:30:09 PM »
Purdy

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Re: Spalted Hackberry
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2011, 06:48:36 PM »
Nice looking call.

For a "trash tree" Hackberry has some surprising qualities.  It has a surprising tone quality if you get the dimensions right, it spalts very decoratively , and its easy to work, much like poplar.

It makes a pretty good box, too:

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Re: Spalted Hackberry
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2011, 07:59:00 AM »
Beautiful,what really surprised me was the tonal quality of the wood as soft and light as it is.........