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Cherry was one of the woods of choice for carpenter's levels, so it must be pretty durable and stable.
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I have heard that Cherry dust (from sanding and sawing) can really irritate some peoples eyes and noses. Any truth to this?
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I've done two cherry stocked guns in the last month, and noticed no ill effects. :shocked2:Zonie said:I have heard that Cherry dust (from sanding and sawing) can really irritate some peoples eyes and noses. Any truth to this?
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Well I know workin with this stock ain't gonna bother me none. :grin:
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yeah , you'd like have to be close to it....and actually touch it too.. :shocked2: :rotf: :rotf: :blah:Swamp Rat said:
I've not heard this about cherry....other species, but not cherry. I've milled out cherry planks, tounge and groved a bunch of it and paneled 2 1/2 rooms with it and never suffered any problems. But people have different alergies, and what doesn't bother me may be horrible to someone else :shocked2:
Sawmillers sawing Port Orford Cedar out in the Pacific Northwest have to wear breathing devices when exposed to the sawdust. It's toxic! We have a tree which grows only in deep swamps in north Florida and south Georgia that will drive you up the wall if you breath any of the dust particles when working with it. It's Red Bay, and William Bartram the Naturalist, referred to it as King's Wood since the grain is unusually beautiful in pattern and color. Logging it is very difficult, but much of it was cut out during the Coloniel Period and sent to Europe due to it's beauty. I've got maybe a thousand board feet of it cut and dried and ready to panel my last two rooms, but I keep putting off running it through the planer 'cause I know what I'm in for :shake:
Sawmillers sawing Port Orford Cedar out in the Pacific Northwest have to wear breathing devices when exposed to the sawdust. It's toxic! We have a tree which grows only in deep swamps in north Florida and south Georgia that will drive you up the wall if you breath any of the dust particles when working with it. It's Red Bay, and William Bartram the Naturalist, referred to it as King's Wood since the grain is unusually beautiful in pattern and color. Logging it is very difficult, but much of it was cut out during the Coloniel Period and sent to Europe due to it's beauty. I've got maybe a thousand board feet of it cut and dried and ready to panel my last two rooms, but I keep putting off running it through the planer 'cause I know what I'm in for :shake:
Zonie said:I have heard that Cherry dust (from sanding and sawing) can really irritate some peoples eyes and noses. Any truth to this?
zonie
Truth? Who knows, probably, as stated someone somewhere has an allergy. Careful, though, because with so many woods (exotic) coming in from the Amazon region, etc., they're getting called all sorts of things they probably shouldn't be called. "Brazilian Walnut," for instance, is the name commonly given to Ipe, and that stuff IS nasty on the lungs, eyes, and skin. Same with "Brazilian Cherry," which is not cherry, but can have the same results on you as Ipe.
Cherry (OUR cherry, Black Cherry, the "real" stuff!) is my favorite wood (furniture, etc., that is). Nothing takes as deep a finish, such a 3D effect, with the better grades.
http://www.gvwg.ca/docs/Articles/WoodToxicity.htm
I've posted this before, but it is always handy. Like someone said above, cherry continues to darken forever. I'm working on a cherry bust of W.George Bush right now, and it is dark and light wood both. Some extremely hard, and the rest is harder. Cherry makes me sneeze, but that's about it. I don't breathe any more than necessary though either. Pahaska
I've posted this before, but it is always handy. Like someone said above, cherry continues to darken forever. I'm working on a cherry bust of W.George Bush right now, and it is dark and light wood both. Some extremely hard, and the rest is harder. Cherry makes me sneeze, but that's about it. I don't breathe any more than necessary though either. Pahaska
