I have a client that has three butter churns in various stats of repair. One is complete but has a questionable dasher. One has a broken split dasher off its handle. The other is just the crock and has no lid or dasher. The client wants repairs made and a new lid/dasher made for the crock.
In fabricating and repairing these I would like to be as authentic as possible. Does anyone have any idea as to the typical species of wood used to make churn dashers of old. Not too concerned about the dasher handle, those seem to be mostly hickory, just the dasher its self. I am pretty sure that cedar is not typical, which is what the questionable one showing its bottom in the first pic is. The other one in clamps might be legit, appears to be something like bass wood or some other similar soft wood. Will most likely use maple if I can't get a definite answer.
Administrators, hope I have this in an appropriate forum.
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