[Thomp]

Recently was given a 7 foot straight old dry staff, with bark on, the ends were weathered and the feller thought i could have fun making a walking stick or cane from it.
as i used a small fiddle makers plane to remove bark and smooth out some of the bumps and humps i got a whiff of cinnamon, and ucilyptis, i brought the stick to my nose in a fresh cut place and yep it was the stick.
a darker tan, between pecan and walnut

today i picked up a small section of the wood and remembered its strange charistics as i did carve on it, it was like carving cottonwood bark,
in that the wood was layered like layers of paint eggshell thick, some places flaked and others carved pretty good...

this is the tree that has all them olive pit sized hard seeds that get under foot and make it very hard to maintain control when your among the seeds,,
known as the bead tree the beads are used for making rosery beads among other things,

i did a search for the tree and come up with this, on the aspca animal shelter and potion control
thinking its posion to animals might post the warning here too...
link below

from the aspca

Chinaberry Tree Common Name: Chinaberry Tree
Scientific Name: Melia azedarach
Family: Meliaceae
Toxic Principle: Tetranortriterpene-neurotoxins, unspecified gastroenteric toxin.
Clinical signs: Berries are most toxic. Can see slow heartrate, diarrhea, vomiting, depression, weakness, seizures, and shock.
Chinaberry melia azedarach

[tnartist05]

Ohhhhh WOW!! I enjoy learning from alot of your different post Thomas! I applaud someone that dont know about something but goes and really finds out about it than somone who thinks they know it all and in fact doesnt know beans about what they are talking about! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge! Thks TnArtist

[Thomp]

Sorry for the mis spellings in the post,
i was fighting to get offline becuse of a thunderstorm,

TnArtist,

Finding information on the internet is about like passing on gossup, some of its totaly wrong and made up,, others is at least on goverment information sites like that info was..

if they would have had internet when i was a kid, im sure my grades would have been different.. but that was before electricity as my kids say,,,,,haha

thanks just doing what i thought was best fot all..