I got this wood from a friend, and it was almost an OOPS!! I got the bottom VERY thin while reverse turning it, so I put a little "patch" of 3/16" cherry veneer on it to stiffen it up a bit. There's a little CA glue squeezeout, but I don't care too much about it. Boy is hickory HARD! This had been dead for a few years, but still standing, so was quite wet still. No exaggeration, hickory takes about 10X the sanding to really get all the marks out. I went the full series--80,100,120,150,180,220,280,320, and 400 on this one. The wood was quite smooth, and almost as shiny before finishing! It takes a really good polish. I used some CA glue to stiffen up the knot inclusion. The orange-red line through the center is not ringshake, but a natural figure. I used a dental pick to get out the beetle holes--their leftovers were pretty hard, and required some pretty coarse scratching to remove.
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But, that's fixed now! Its remarkably heavy for how thin it is, though. Gotta love hickory! Its lost a fair bit of weight in the last week, but its still got some heft to it. I accidentally dropped it, and thought it was all over, but it just kinda went, "THUD", and didn't even put a dent in it. I'm going to give this to the farmers I got the wood from, and ask for some more!
