Manzanita wood...proceeds go to NASH with pics

[grillmasterp]

Once, water logged, Manzanita will sink, just not as easily as mopani-

definately less tannins than mopani.

[kwc1974]

not a straight forward answer, most pieces I have had do not sink right off the bat. But I have grown use to it as I have tired of the "african darkwood" and Mopani.

Tannin levels are minimum in comparison to other woods I have used, but I accually like a little tannin in the water.

Some of the water loggin steps I have used in the past are to boil the pieces (if they are a small), if you have the time to soak outside in the hot sun for a few weeks before you need them (let the water go black from the tannins, the more acidic the water the faster the waterlogging happens) or anchor with rocks (I do this anyway to keep in place)

No matter how I do it, I have learned the hard way to always run a bleach rinse on the wood, and then rerinse with clean water. I would do this even if the wood does sink right of the bat.

[finfan]

thanks for the info guys, kwc, when you say you have learned the hard way, what happened when you did not?

[danielp]

Thanks for the bleach tips.

I've got it in a bucket full of water and another bucket on top keeping it submerged.

Will wait it out.

[kwc1974]

I have used wild collected wood before with very funny results of fly larvea apperaing in the tank a vew days later. Also anything that may have been growwing on the wood such as moss, algae, bacteria will restart once submerged. It is just a better safe than sorry habit I picked up, double so if you soak you wood outside.