As a kid in Texas, I can't tell you how often I heard... "Horse apple fight!!!" The large heavy horse apple fruit from the tree went flying and kids went running. I truly love making walking sticks from this wood.
You should try to leach it out like one does with acorn flower, to make acorn bread. Then after you boil it to clear water, put in a few chunks of wax to seal your kitchen ware. It soaks into the wood to seal it, it's also the same way you make fat wood out of crap wood or 2 x 4's, very easy to start fires from a sparker. You sould make some pool sticks out of that osage oranges or chest game boards. Just some thoughts !
I don't think I would build anything huge out of osage orange, or yellowheart (which is another cool yellow wood that I like for accents)... but for accents in small bits.. Supposedly this is very good for rot resistance also, so maybe it would make a good adirondack chair.
@@Wordsnwood just saw your comment on rot resistance. We use osage orange or as it’s called around here hedge it’s used primarily for fence posts they say it will last a year longer then steel. I personally know of some corner post that have been in the ground 60 + years and still rock solid. When milling it dead and aged I’ve thrown sparks. If that gives you an idea of how hard it gets.
@@JohnHeisz You and Peter Collin have the same idea... A bow needs green wood. www.mossyoak.com/our-obsession/blogs/how-to/how-to-make-a-longbow and I find the idea terrifying, as I envision it snapping in my face!
@@Wordsnwood what separates green from seasoned is moisture content, so adding that back will get you there. More important I think is that it be straight grain with no cuts through the layers where it will splinter off.
A few years ago I bought some wood sold as "faux satinwood" from my hardwood dealer. Nice yellow colour. Worked well, didn't fade or brown in time. I have a number of pieces using it and nothing has changed in colour over several years. I use it much like you do. As an accent or for something different. But when I wash my hands covered in dust from it and don't get them fully clean with soap it will stain the towel. I hear about that. I also have several once white tee shirts that are now a nice light yellow from a trip through the washing machine with socks that had satinwood dust on them.
Tangential to this, another species in the same genus as Osage orange has been used as a source of the dye fustic, which was the original dye used to color khaki pants.
Good video. I did not know it was used for dye! I've seen the odd lumpy fruits that it produces in a few of the parks and conservation areas around me. The only thing I had really heard about Osage Orange is that it is one of the hottest burning hard woods. I need to find some locally and test that out.
good to know. I made my wife a bread knife with it, which should be fine since it will stay dry, but now i know not to use it for much else in the kitchen. I have access to alot of that wood and plan to use it all.
It will brown with exposure to sunlight probably the UV. Once off the mill I get it inside ASAP. Not sure if it will brown if it has a finish. I would think with a finish and being indoor the color should last indefinitely
That would be one heavy fly rod, but I don't think you could find a stronger wood, you will be yanking those fish teeth right out of their mouths. Lol😂
You have to boil it, rinse repeat, it'll turn white with a yellow hue, then you can use it for utensils, there's an old wives tale that parts of the tree can help cure cancer, however I don't think I'd take my chances, boil it until it loses its color.
Don't eat the yellow mashed potatoes. Worththeeffort makes mallets out of the stuff, though they call it bodark down there, and yeah they turn dark brown.
use them in the mashed potatoes and save on butter !
As a kid in Texas, I can't tell you how often I heard... "Horse apple fight!!!" The large heavy horse apple fruit from the tree went flying and kids went running. I truly love making walking sticks from this wood.
You should try to leach it out like one does with acorn flower, to make acorn bread. Then after you boil it to clear water, put in a few chunks of wax to seal your kitchen ware. It soaks into the wood to seal it, it's also the same way you make fat wood out of crap wood or 2 x 4's, very easy to start fires from a sparker. You sould make some pool sticks out of that osage oranges or chest game boards. Just some thoughts !
It is a great wood to use if you like sharpening tools a lot. It has a high mineral content and is very hard and very dense.
Lemony!
I don't like woods that have a strong yellow hue and that's mainly why I stopped using linseed oil.
I don't think I would build anything huge out of osage orange, or yellowheart (which is another cool yellow wood that I like for accents)... but for accents in small bits..
Supposedly this is very good for rot resistance also, so maybe it would make a good adirondack chair.
@@Wordsnwood just saw your comment on rot resistance. We use osage orange or as it’s called around here hedge it’s used primarily for fence posts they say it will last a year longer then steel. I personally know of some corner post that have been in the ground 60 + years and still rock solid. When milling it dead and aged I’ve thrown sparks. If that gives you an idea of how hard it gets.
@@Wordsnwood good for longbows too, if I remember it right. Do a longbow! :D
@@JohnHeisz You and Peter Collin have the same idea... A bow needs green wood. www.mossyoak.com/our-obsession/blogs/how-to/how-to-make-a-longbow and I find the idea terrifying, as I envision it snapping in my face!
@@Wordsnwood what separates green from seasoned is moisture content, so adding that back will get you there. More important I think is that it be straight grain with no cuts through the layers where it will splinter off.
A few years ago I bought some wood sold as "faux satinwood" from my hardwood dealer. Nice yellow colour. Worked well, didn't fade or brown in time. I have a number of pieces using it and nothing has changed in colour over several years. I use it much like you do. As an accent or for something different.
But when I wash my hands covered in dust from it and don't get them fully clean with soap it will stain the towel. I hear about that. I also have several once white tee shirts that are now a nice light yellow from a trip through the washing machine with socks that had satinwood dust on them.
Tangential to this, another species in the same genus as Osage orange has been used as a source of the dye fustic, which was the original dye used to color khaki pants.
Good video. I did not know it was used for dye! I've seen the odd lumpy fruits that it produces in a few of the parks and conservation areas around me. The only thing I had really heard about Osage Orange is that it is one of the hottest burning hard woods. I need to find some locally and test that out.
hardest of the North American hardwoods on the Janka scale. It is dense...I have used in acoustic sound boxes..
good to know. I made my wife a bread knife with it, which should be fine since it will stay dry, but now i know not to use it for much else in the kitchen. I have access to alot of that wood and plan to use it all.
It will brown with exposure to sunlight probably the UV. Once off the mill I get it inside ASAP. Not sure if it will brown if it has a finish. I would think with a finish and being indoor the color should last indefinitely
Hope so... time will tell.
Very interesting, really thought that you were going to end this with "Cheers"
Thought about tossing it down the hatch but...
Hello my friend,
I think there will be no color change as long as it is used indoors. It's a good idea. thank you. See you. Big greetings....
That's just regular London water lol
you must have old plumbing...
It has been said that Osage Orange rivals the famous and almost impossible to get Brazilian Rosewood as a tonewood for acoustic guitars!
I want to get a hunk of O.O. to play around with one of these days. Its use in making archery bows makes me wonder how it would do as a fly rod.
You want it green then I guess, not kiln dried!?
@@Wordsnwood I'm not sure. I have made bamboo fly rods, and you need to heat treat the cane before planing to its final dimension.
@@petercollin5670 I don't fish, so I know nada about rods. I would think you could find osage in your area if I can find it here!
@@petercollin5670 Confirmed, green wood, cut a 2-3" diameter tree: www.mossyoak.com/our-obsession/blogs/how-to/how-to-make-a-longbow
That would be one heavy fly rod, but I don't think you could find a stronger wood, you will be yanking those fish teeth right out of their mouths. Lol😂
Or, as we call it in Texas, Bois D' Ark! We also call it Horseapple tree!
You have to boil it, rinse repeat, it'll turn white with a yellow hue, then you can use it for utensils, there's an old wives tale that parts of the tree can help cure cancer, however I don't think I'd take my chances, boil it until it loses its color.
What’s it taste like, though?
Don't eat the yellow mashed potatoes. Worththeeffort makes mallets out of the stuff, though they call it bodark down there, and yeah they turn dark brown.
... or yellow snow.
Will have to see how the colour changes. Maybe not enough UV in my kitchen is why the trivets are keeping their colour?
That is interesting! have you tried other woods like walnut or purple heart to see if they bleed as well?
not yet...
Hmm, thanks for sharing that Art
Osage orange is great for bows and firewood!
And guitars
Peter Brown did a wood turning video with it under black light and it looked cool i wonder what the color water would look like under black light ?
So you would not use olive wood. That also releases some color fella. The wood is not toxic at all.
It will go chocolate brown over time. See Shawn Graham's mallot as an example
Sell it as very posh lemon cider and run!
Native Americans used to make bowls out of Osage orange
And Bows.
Looks like pinot gris LOL