[hobo]

Just cut down a butternut tree for carving stock. I took most of it to the saw mill but there was a few nice small pcs I didnt and bandsawed the pcs into carving blocks .WHAT do you do about the worms in some pcs of the wood??????????

[hruukki]

If you handle the finished product with a mixture of wood turpentine and linseed oil, or danish oil, or any other poisonous substance, the worms will have a hard time. Turpentine in particular will soak the wood, being a thin liquid.

If you cannot wait to get rid of them, you could suffocate them with CO2. I don't know if you can just give the wood some turpentine prior to working it - that way you'd need a lot more turpentine of course, the smell would be hard to bear (if you do it indoors) and also I'm not sure if it will affect the properties of the wood.

[Kenny_S]

Heard that if the pieces are small enough, Microwave them, or plastic bag and use the exhust from the car.