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Osage Orange Chips: Yellow Heartwood Chipped for the Dyer
Osage orange heartwood is a yellow dyewood: it holds the same colouring matters as fustic, and can be used wherever fustic is (Betts, USDA, 1945). Like other dyewoods it is chipped before use. The wood is very hard, so keep the edges sharp.
The picture: freshly cut osage orange, the yellow heartwood inside a thin pale sapwood (photo by Fernando Lopez Anido, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).
Beginner
A few hours
Instructions
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1
Take off bark and sapwood
Take off bark and sapwood
Shave off the bark and the narrow light-yellow sapwood, under half an inch thick, down to the golden heartwood.
Materials for this step:
Osage Orange Wood1 kgTools needed:
Drawknife
Hatchet2
2
Split and chip
Split and chip
The wood splits easily: split it with the hatchet, then cut it into small chips or rasp it to coarse shavings. It is very hard, so sharpen the edges often.
Tools needed:
Hatchet
Wood Rasp
Sharpening Stone3
3
Bag the chips
Bag the chips
Bag the chips and keep them dry. Fresh-cut wood is golden yellow and darkens in the air.
Tools needed:
Jute SackMaterials
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