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Green Cherry lumber HELP
Look around and you'll probably find somebody who sells specialty wood and ask if they're interested or who they buy from. I'm not sure if logs that are intended for furniture wood are sawed green or not but there are likely some storage requirements for sawed green wood.
I think it tends to split if it dries down too fast. Planks do warp as the dry so you don't want to saw the planks too thin because they need to be run through a plane before use.
People who supply wood to furniture builders may not buy green wood because it can't be used directly for furniture building. Wood used in traditional furniture construction usually is kilned down to a low moisture content and then stored in low humidity environments. Furniture made from high-moisture pieces that are glued together warp, split etc.
Your best market likely is to a mill that supplies finished kilned wood to furniture builders. Such a place probably tends to buy logs but might buy planks sawed to their specs. The planks would be graded since only a few planks from a tree have highly desirable grain patterns and warping characeristics. Some species, especially oak are quarter sawed to increase the yield of high value planks but at the expense of width. Anyway, there is a lot to this sawing stuff and I hope you ended up with planks that do have a market. If there are guitar builders in your area you might ask where they get their wood. The requirements are different than for furniture building.
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Green Cherry lumber HELP
Some friends down south bought a house in a country town that has a very large black-walnut on it. They say they figure that tree would pay off the mortgage. A furniture-grade tree can be worth a bunch. I believe that some stands of instrument grade trees (mostly spruce etc. for soundboards) are so valuable that they rate their own security guards.
My grandmother was very proud of her cherry dining room set. I have it now and it is something to be proud of. She was asking me about it and I incidentally observed that it's veneered and she was horrified. 'No!' she says it's solid cherry. After smoothing some feathers, I said it likely is solid cherry, it's just that the manufacturer put some very high class veneer over plainer cherry wood. I'm not sure the feathers were quite smoothed but it's true enough that high-class logs are worth much more as veneer than as boards.
I know about this sawing stuff more from the standpoint of selecting wood than actually doing the sawing. If you tangentially cut logs you get a bunch of boards with 'moon' end grain and that's not what you want because they cup. Fancy sawing techniques increases the number of boards that have better grain but there's more waste and narrower boards. It only makes sense to do on high-class logs. I thought of a practical issue on this subject a few days back. I built a few decks and I noticed that rain stays on top of some of the planks. I now realize that if I looked at the end grains and put any 'moon' grained pieces facing up that wouldn't happen.
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