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MtnDon
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2025 04:34pm
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We had several inches of snow around our cabin at 8800 feet a few weeks back. Then it got warm and most of it melted. Except for all the north-facing slopes and road sections. Those are nice and icy now.
So I made some snowless snowmen.
And some Christmas trees for good measure.
Some of the wood was from a freshly cut branch of a pine or ours. (turned first to a rough shape, then dried in the microwave and turned a second time for finishing)
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travellerw
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2025 08:21pm
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Sigh, we have 3.5ft piles. I shouldn't complain as this is the first year with real snow in the last 5 years.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2025 09:18pm
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Nice work Don.
I need to get a small wood lathe.
We won't have snow for Christmas,
But the past few weeks in the Midwest was enough for me. I'm ready for spring.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2025 09:35pm
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Think I'll decorate the cactus
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DRP
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2025 06:38am
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That looks like fun 
What is the green tinged wood, rear left in pic 5? If you were here I'd say tulip poplar.
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2025 10:11am
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We lost all of our snow in PA last night. Got 1.5" of rain and only piles are left, have had snow on the ground for a couple weeks now which is not normal.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2025 08:29pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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Quoting: DRP If you were here I'd say tulip poplar
You have a good eye. Well, I am not there, and here it is known as yellow poplar. Both names refer to the same tree.
I don't usually do much with poplar unless it is going to be painted.  . That greenish cast you picked up on is usually too ugly. I needed another tree and found that piece in one of the odds 'n' ends boxes.
I've attached some more images. That's a small bowl I did as a test. It is three pieces of poplar glued together. The top snd bottom were very greenish poplar with the upper slice virtually 100%. I think it actually looks good with the greenish hue. About 4 inches across the flats.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2025 08:34pm
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Sycamore with top & btm of canarywood. About 4" across.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2025 10:12am
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What are you using for glue?
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2025 02:12pm
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Titebond 3, mainly because it has the longest open time of all the PVA glues. Clamped for 4 hours or longer, left 24 hours before doing cutting or turning.
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DRP
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2025 03:31pm
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Yes, the tree's common name is tulip poplar (although it is in the magnolia family), the wood is called yellow poplar to distinguish it from aspen, commonly called popple. The green will often turn to a light brown with exposure to sunlight. Anyway, I had a couple of pics of one of its cool "defects", rainbow poplar.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2025 07:24pm
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Ooh. The colors are something else! I've read about that, but never seen any. I've seen the green turn to a very nice brown. I received four 8 foot lengths of 1x12 poplar and plus odds n ends of cutoffs, from a friends estate. It had been stored for at least 12 years. When I got it it was standing in a corner of the garage adjacent to his work area. It was beautiful looking. I had no idea what it was until I cut into some.That greenish bowl is from that material.
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DRP
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2025 08:05pm
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Most of that intense color fades quickly once we open it up to air and light but it is sure eye candy for the sawyer. There was one tree, when the boards started laying off, it was the shroud of Turin .
Back to no snow for Christmas, we were close to 50f today and it looks like a warm week ahead. I got bit by the sawzall this week while up on the scaffold in nasty removal and promised to be good, at least till she went to bake with friends. It was spring-like outside. With warmish dryish ground I got the old Dodge going and headed into the timber. She came home with several plates of cookies. I guess the diet starts week after next .
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