In addition, there was some very slight curl figure on very close examination. Figure such as curl is not commonly seen in Tulip Poplar, being more common in woods such as Maple for example, but figure can technically occur in most any wood and when it is present it usually drives up the price of the piece of wood in question, sometimes to a dramatic degree.<\/p>\n
Tulip Poplar Reverse<\/p><\/div>\n
Finally, there was very nice contract between the white sapwood and the distinctly yellow heartwood. It is always nice when a turning blank is cut in such as way as to include both sap and heartwoods whenever there is a discernible color difference between the two as it adds a great bit of contrast and visual appeal.<\/p>\n
I greatly enjoyed working with this piece of Tulip Poplar and I am highly likely to look forward to working with this type of wood in my shop in the future. To all my readers, regardless of your particular area of wood working interest, but especially to all my fellow wood turning fans, I wish everyone a good turn today.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have written about Poplar in general in a previous post that happens to focus on the highly colored variant Rainbow Poplar, and while the common names are different for reasons that are explained in the previous post, the wood is the same genus and species. Tulip Poplar is so named because of the shape of the nectar-filled flowers borne by the tree in Spring. As noted in the previous post, Tulip Poplar is quite soft so it cut very easily although as is so often the case with softer woods, the cut is fuzzy and slightly rough because of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,138,139,130],"tags":[154,171,181,183,200,204,210,258,260,228,229,240,259,252],"yoast_head":"\n
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