Revealing the Milled Persimmon Lumber

used for all sorts of stuff they make golf clubs out of them most likely this will be used for some home decor projects around the house we're putting together a wood shop guys so we'll be building all kinds of stuff on the farm let's get the reveal this persimmon seems really light colored some persimmon can be really dark colored almost black like walnut let's scrape that guy off give her a little water we call it water around here oh man look at that i see some knife handles in my future got a little burl in there beautiful beautiful lumber guys beautiful just doesn't get any better than that wow this is called virginia persimmon there are different varieties out there wow well that is sawmill sunday for this sunday guys that's what persimmon lumber looks like if i get into any of these and they look any different we'll get you a shot after the end credits man what an awesome day i can't wait to mill all this up we'll stack it in a barn and we'll let it dry persimmon dries very finicky so it likes to move a lot when it dries so we're going to stack this and then we're going to put some more lumber on top of it probably this white oak so that it holds steady this is going to make knife handles all sorts of fun projects for the farm guys thanks a lot pound that like button we'll see you next time on the stoney ridge farm i gotta offload all that lumber onto this tym tractor get busy thanks guys hope you enjoyed sawmill sunday this week [Music] here