<div dir="ltr">The bark will stay on better if the tree is cut during the winter. <div><br></div><div>You'll need to make sure it it is dry and stabilized. Also, use something like Pentacryl to help stabilize it. </div><div>You could use Cactus Juice to stabilize as well, but that gets pretty expensive. It's about $100 per gallon. Of course, Pentacryl is in the same price range, but you don't need to use as much.</div><div><br></div><div>Use CA glue to glue back together split pieces, and use colored epoxy to help fill in splits.</div><div><br></div><div>Drilling out the center tends to help keep the piece from splitting. </div><div><br></div><div>I would use maple or walnut for something like this. Cherry seems to split if you look at it wrong, so that's probably your worst choice.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,<br>-Steve<br><a href="http://woodworking.bigelowsite.com" target="_blank">http://woodworking.bigelowsite.com</a><br></div><a href="http://pen-blanks.us" target="_blank">http://pen-blanks.us</a><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Thomas E Lovelace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t.lovelace@icloud.com" target="_blank">t.lovelace@icloud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">A Grand Daughter is to be married later next year and wants a few wooden centerpieces as shown in the photo.<div>Am concerned about drying and cracking.</div><div>Should these be made of live wood or well dried material?</div><div>Appreciate any tips from you folks that may have done something like this!</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><br></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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