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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on November 20, 2008, 05:53 PM:
Krusty,
This is relevant to your part of the world. I have an old friend coming back next weekend from Oregon with another guy from Wyoming who both use my calls up that way for ADC work. He's bringing me several pieces of aged and cured madrone to try and make some calls from. Have you ever tried working with it and if so, what were the results? He says it's a pretty hard, tight grained, light almost cream colored wood that is comparable to bois d'arc in weight and feel. Your thoughts?
Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on November 20, 2008, 08:10 PM:
Lance,
I've never worked with madrone, other than in the firewood sense of work.
But I can attest for part of what your friend says, it's a pretty hard, tight grained, cream to yellowish colored wood...
Bois d'what?
To my mind, clouded by some foggy high school biology/botany class memory, the pacific madrone and the rhododendron are related...
Having worked with rhody, which has a very similar appearance, I'd expect similar properties.
A wood with close growth rings of like hardness, interwoven cellulose layers not prone to splitting (this part I know, for sure), with the ability to hold fine details, and a weight/density similar to a mid grade maple.
Good stuff, for calls, I'd guess. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
I know the subject has been discussed, on one of the call maker boards, before.
Krusty 
P.S. Like big leaf maple, madrona usually gets left in the woods... "it's not worth hauling out".
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on November 21, 2008, 04:22 AM:
Thanks. I'll let you know what I think of it after I get a chance to work with it a bit.
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