Eastern Red Cedar is a juniper, for what it’s worth. Western Red Cedar is thuja. What I have is Rocky Mountain Juniper, which isn’t listed in the wood database, because trunks are generally small and full of bark inclusions. Hard to get furniture-grade lumber from it, and now that Sycamoray has given up his kiln, I probably won’t be getting much more.
As for what it will be, my hope is that by this winter I will have built a fireplace cover for the fireplace we got repainted summer of 2022. I’ve got a couple little models with radial pieces of juniper and heartwood and sapwood showing, and I’ve been milling much of this quartersawn in order to get both types of wood in most every board.
I’ve also been milling some Indian hardwood, but it’s treated with methyl bromide, so I’m not sure if I’m going to do much more with that or not. But it quartersaws beautifully, and it’s basically free, so I’m torn.
Doesn’t look bad rift-sawn, either.
Shame it’s got the MB of shame in the pallet markings.
