Pawlonia Wood

[Anonymous]

Does any one know the effects of Mother Nature on Pawlonia wood out side?

[toenailridgesl]

Bill,
a quick Google search turned up the following:
"A wood Ive had excellent results for outside use (planters, etc) is cypress. Its readily available and is in 5/4 stock . (I hate nom 1"). i too would stay away from plywood touching ground, it will delaminate in a year or 2. Wolmanized woods have the Cu/As problem . Redwood or cedar are getting almost out of reach. Cypress is my first choice.
Stay away from "light" cypress, which is actually PAwlonia. This is good for painted furniture but not outside. Youll know cypress, its really heavy and it sort of stinks "
From this site:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/about3487.html
Hope this helps, Bro.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Phil. Just wanted to see if anyone else had that problem as he said.
One bad thing is I have a great shape of that wood for a project.
Time to take it apart and use another wood [:)]

[Anonymous]

BB71 - check out http://www.paulownia.com/tech.html or http://woodworkersworld.homestead.com/p3Feb_2001.html

Looking through one of my books it's also called Blue Catalpa It's in the column of very moisture resistant or resistant. I did see somewhere it siad easy to work with and somewhere else it has a tendency to dull tools/blades
I wonder if it dulls them as fast as Brazilian Walnut also known as Ironwood? which around here has been being used for a finished decking material, but expensive.

[whiterab]

William,
What are you trying to build?

It's kind of expensive, but for buildings and bridges, I use cedar or redwood. I especially like redwood as you can sometimes get some real fine grain. Take stains well and ages very well. Several good places to get it by mailorder in scale.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by whiterab

William,
What are you trying to build?

It's kind of expensive, but for buildings and bridges, I use cedar or redwood. I especially like redwood as you can sometimes get some real fine grain. Take stains well and ages very well. Several good places to get it by mailorder in scale.

Water storage tank for my steam loco.
As for toughtness using a diamond carbid <sp> blade. My head hurts like hell I have to go to bed night ya'll. Sinus problems.