Making Beads out of America’s HARDEST Native Wood | Nevada | Justinthetrees US Tree Map 

Okay my 3rd graders are learning their states right now and I’m dying to show them these videos! This bill nye of trees should make a tv show~

You should have such a bigger following! You are super talented and very entertaining

It's nice to know that cats just screaming at you while you're trying to do something is a universal experience lol. Was really fun learning about these trees I've seen them and just thought they looked interesting and spooky!

If you could get a piece of American chestnut that would be perfect for any Appalachian state. Plus it comes with so much history to talk about

Your pets are so cute! Could you do Mangrove or Gumbo Limbo for Florida?

Oh my goodness. I wish I had wood from the back yard of my old house of the tree planted in honor of my dad after he passed. If I had a bracelet made of that wood for my sister and I, I’d cherish it forever

I just want to thank you for pronouncing Nevada correctly.

You sir are easily becoming one of my favorite RU-vidrs, I love how informed you are about these woods and I love the content you make

Not sure if anyone will ever see this but as someone who has quickly become inspired by your videos, an explanation of how you make your projects would be amazing. Even though you talk about how you don’t feel comfortable giving that kind of advice, you’re work is still awesome and it would be cool to know your process in more detail.

This is my favorite Series on RU-vid! And you should do Minnesota next, with Black Cherry Tree Wood, a beautiful Reddish Wood

Thank you so much for doing Nevada! I remember walking trails with my family and standing under their shade for a break when I was younger! I never knew what they were called but I always thought they were so pretty! And I'd like to see you use wood from the American Persimmon tree in a project? It's really pretty and the fruit is delicious, which I know that you'll enjoy!

I think this is fascinating.

For California please do the Coastal Live Oak (known as red oak locally and it's used for Santa Maria style barbeque!)

Whenever I feel stressed, these videos make me feel better. The calming voice and gentle subject makes these videos amazing

Oh my goodness. I love the outdoors. I love the many differences that can be seen in the cut wood. It tells its own story. Then you get to add your story. The beads are just gorgeous. I wish we had the tools to do that. May Blessings and amazing finds be forever in your path. ❤

I know it wouldn't work great with the current format, but if you ever did another one, it could be cool to include Canadian provinces/territories. they'd fit into the map mand I believe we also all have provincial trees. Love the map idea from Ontario!

Once you asked if people watched your long form content, I went to go see what it’s like and now I’m hooked beyond comprehension. Amazing content!!

Your cat Sal ,wants to watch you woodwork because, you're so good at it.

This channel is so satisfying and entertaining. You give so much detail and information too. Keep up the great work! 💪💪

I adore this series! I love the food and fun facts especially. Georgia next?

I've been using interesting scrap pieces of hardwood to try and carve my own beads recently, So this is super inspiring on where to go next in making it more efficient and such! Always can make room for new, fun drill bits

Love your content man, look forward to new videos every time. Makes me want to get into woodworking 🤣

Absolutely loved these on TikTok, and am so excited to have longer form videos here!! I would love for you to do the American chestnut because it was once the most common, and largest tree in the eastern US, but has been almost completely destroyed. The largest current one is in Maine, so maybe you could do that!

As a fellow dendro nerd and woodworker I’ve been really enjoying your videos! I’m from Louisiana and I think there are lots of species that would make good candidates for the state. Longleaf pine, cypress, water Tupelo, and live oak all have some sort of cultural significance in the state and I think any of them would make for an interesting piece or video

i love this!! i was born in nevada, although i havent lived there in a long time, and theres so much more out there than the "nothing" everyone likes to stereotype it as. i live right on the idaho/oregon border now and spend about equal amounts of time in either state, and i'd love to see you do something with the tamarack tree for either of them, its a super cool tree and i dont think you've made a video about the tamarack yet. happy crafting! :D

I have been watching your shorts for a month; thanks for telling me in your recent one that you've got these long forms on here. Thank you for sharing your work.

Ive been watching just your shorts for the months now, and just finally decided to check out a video and watched your latest one. Time to go binge watch the rest!

I would love to see Western Hemlock or Pacific Yew for Idaho ♡ Your channel is a delight!

I love your videos so much. Always look forward to the next one. Definitely prefer the longer ones.

Thank you for pronouncing Nevada properly. You have no idea how much that made my day.. too much.

I found you from your shorts a few months ago. I don’t know why I took so long to watch a full length video. This is a beautiful piece.

I quite enjoy the videos, and love your enthusiasm for wood and wood crafting! It makes me feel better seeing someone look at wood and hearing someone talk about wood as I would. (Or... wood?) As a Utah native myself, I also really loved your use of quaking aspen for Utah on your previous map!

I genuinely love your content, it's awesome to learn the history and facts of the trees you show us

Great video Justin. Have you ever thought about making a video on how you set up and use your scroll saw?

Growing up in Northern Nevada, this stuff was ubiquitous around my home. I just never gave it much thought as to what it was. I'm definitely proud to be a Nevadan.

You put so much hard work into your pieces and your videos. Thank you so much for sharing these with us! You are so talented, I love watching your videos and learning about trees while doing so. You deserve so many more followers! Keep up your great work & Im sure they’ll come along soon. 😊

You should do mesquite for Arizona. Where I grew up they were in everyone’s yard and the bane of existence.

Ahhhh! Dude! Drilling into the end grain of the wood! Of course! It makes so much sense now! I literally bought these drill bits around Christmas time as I had some off cut woods I took from my Grandfather who introduced me to woodworking (who died a couple years ago) and I wanted to make myself a bead bracelet from the scraps to remember him by but they kept exploding and I had unusable beads, so I stopped to save the wood and potentially make into something else. You have continued this idea. Thank you so so much! When I’m done with my bracelet I’ll send you a picture over instagram, it’s no worries if you don’t see it, just want to send it to you nonetheless 😃

I feel so relaxed every time I watch your videos. Thank you for posting! You are so amazing!

I’ll never forget the first time and hopefully not last time I saw curl leaf mountain mahogany. I was working as a forestry tech doing silvicultural work on the Gifford Pinchot over in Washington and had the opportunity to go on a fire roll with the local crew. We ended up on the tail end of the Dixie fire in northern Cali. It was all around an interesting and memorable experience as it was my first time out on a fire roll for two weeks sleeping out under the stars every night. On one of our last days we were stationed at the edge of the forest looking for spot fires, it was my job with two other crew members to climb up this steep rocky hill to keep lookout. Once we finally got to the top the view was incredible but what also caught my eye where the handful of trees that were growing up there, I had never seen anything like them. I did some sleuthing and figured out they were curl leaf mountain mahogany. That day up there with those tree, the little lizards on them and that incredible view was my favorite day of the roll and a day I won’t soon forget.

I love this channel so much! What a beautiful piece of wood.

Love to see my home state, I see these trees all the time here and now I know a lot more about them!

I live in nevada and everyone here uses it for firewood. Most of the trees we use have been burned from wild fires and such and makes getting large usable pieces extremely difficult. I've made screwdriver handles and small boxes and the look of the wood is by far my favorite of any other species. But wow does it wear down blades. Just holding a small piece, you can definitely tell that it is much denser and heavier than most wood species.

just found your content and i’m perplexed ! love it

Loving this revisit of the states!! It's awesome learning all these new species of trees. ♡ I'd like to add a plug for Nebraska as either soon *or* dead last. Haha! It appeared so late in the last series that it'd be nice seeing my lovely state on the map longer this time. But it has such a beautiful spot in the map -- dead center, perfect completion feel about it. Thanks, Justin! :)

The cat meowing in the background was so so cute❤

My goodness that wood is breathtaking.

Another great video. Keep it going

wow gorgeous piece of wood

I love the new state tree map. I want to see you do Vermont, it's one of my favorite states in the US. Thank you! :D

Here are the trees that I love seeing while out in the woods of Maine in no particular order. Tamarack (Eastern Larch) Jack Pine Pitch Pine Hawthorn Shagbark Hickory Eastern Hop-Hornbeam Moosewood (Striped Maple) Mountain Ash Sassafras Sumac Sycamore Black Tupelo (Black Gum) Black Willow Can’t wait to see what tree you select this time for Maine!! Keep up the great work, you’ve inspired me to want to get into turning

Thanks for the comfort content

Great video as always :D

Those beads are soooooo beautiful! I have to try this with some of the Sweet Gum tree wood from my backyard when I get home.

I picked up a ton or three some years back. The forest service was thinning just north of Las Vegas at 8900 feet for 'fire safety' around some of those big houses that people live in for a month or so out of the year. They were going to cut it up for firewood. Took a buddy and we drove down. He had to show them how to write out a firewood permit. We got maybe 2 that were about 18 inch diameter. I did send some to a guy in Australia who made penny whistles out of woods denser than 1.0, which means they would sink in water. He had some Acacia's from the outback that had densities up to 1.45. Now, that is some really heavy wood. At the 5000 foot level, the Juniper is the dominant species. At 8900 feet the mountain mahogany was the dominant species. As near as I could find out, the only real use the natives made from it was digging sticks since it is so hard. One other use for it, if you know a fiddle maker, they like it for the pegs on their violins. I did make some beads and ear plugs since I have a number of lathes. After a couple of years, the wood is pretty much black from skin oils. It does polish up beautifully. Now days, I just make threaded boxes from it. While I don't hand chase my threads, using a mechanical thread cutter, Allan Batty an internationally known woodturner, he commented that it was the only native N American wood that is suitable for hand chasing threads. I did find out that it doesn't make for a good guitar fret board. My guitar maker friend said it never stops moving, which I found strange.... I may have to try again, if I can find another piece that is straight enough. Hey, if you need some California Bay Laurel, or as we call it here Oregon Myrtle wood, I can send some to you. Not too hard to find though. I have some Pacific Madrone, and a few pieces of Yew and Chinquapin/golden chestnut also.

i've been watching your videos repeatedly everyday and i'm pretty sure i've watched every single one of them twice

that wood is GORGEOUS

I'm from California so naturally my vote should be for my home, but I'm actually interested in Nebraska, Wyoming, or Utah for the next episode. I don't know a whole lot about them. Plus I'm kind of fascinated with how you teach.

I’m gonna suggest either Monterey Cypress or California Juniper for my home state of California! Monterey cypress are super iconic up in NorCal, they dominate the coastline until you hit coastal redwood forests. California Junipers are a little more familiar to me, they grow alongside piñon pines, Joshua trees, and chaparral down here in the Mojave where I live

Loving the tree map! Not sure if I missed my state yet or it hasn't been ... Mississippi !! We of course have the state tree of the Magnolia and Pine trees of so many variety, tung nut, catalpa, pecan, live and water oaks, and too many more to mention. My personal favorite is the wax myrtle which has a lovely spicy scent! With enough of the berries you can make a very fragrant candle! Don't know if you have any of those in your "wood pile" ,Im sure you'll find something nice and fragrant ! Looking forward to seeing that video! Thank you for the woodworking and the recipes! 🤩

It's gorgeous

Wow these pieces are really gorgeous. I hope I can get my pa's drill press, he used to take us to the shed and show us wood turning, and while i cant stand up for long periods of time, being able to make beads from some of the gorgeous Australian woods with a drill press would be a use he'd approve of I think. Seeing the amazing wood you have over there and lwarning its history is so interesting as well. Glad I started checking out more long form content

i absolutely love these videos, i love learning about the different projects you can do with the trees and i love that you talk about indigenous uses! i’m so curious to learn more about what trees are native to my area and i hope you do an episode on virginia soon! your videos are making me want to try woodworking of some kind, i was thinking i could try whittling since i could probably learn with just my swiss army knife and sticks i find on the ground and some internet videos but maybe i’m wrong. anyways sorry for the ramble but i absolutely love these videos

He is awesome I've always wanted to know more about wood and he makes it fun

SO BEAUTIFUL

Excellent tree choice for Nevada.

Love these videos ❤

Bummed the Christmas trees on your website are sold out! Those things are freaking adorable!!!

Thanks for this, christmas presents are sorted with this idea :)

Myrtle for Oregon or Koa for Hawaii, the woods are a bit costly but ALWAYS leaves you mindblown at the end

never knew trees could be this interesting

Can't wait to see the Velvet Mesquite for Arizona

For California I think you should do an oak tree of some kind :) they're really important to the ecosystem here and are protected. The likely oldest one in southern California is called the Oak of the Golden Dream. It's where gold was first discovered in California and it started the gold rush! It's a really cool story, you should look it up :) the oak is in my home town and it's thought to be 500+ years old

Love love love all these videos! I'm born in VA, lived in AZ for a long time. I think you should do Holly or Sweetgum for VA and Ironwood or Ponderosa for AZ

NEW VIDEO WOOHOO

Great vid 👏

New Jersey! Use Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) wood, it’s a beautiful tree that is unique in that it’s plentiful in NJ swamps but is scarce in the remainder of its range. Fun fact is that it’s closest relative is the Port Orford Cedar native to NoCal and Southern Oregon coast. American Holly (Ilex opaca) is also a pretty cool tree that is native to the state in large numbers, it’s a huge Holly species that can get close to 100 feet in height and is one of the largest broadleaf evergreens native to the state.

I would love to see either the obvious option, buckeye, or an osage orange for Ohio! Two of my favorite trees from here :)

Hoping for Texas soon, keep up the great work!!!!!

I subscribed just for this series

That wood is just beautiful! As always, I truly enjoy learning all the tree facts. You have a way of making what could be boring fun. On that point, I could easily see you teaching a class and getting kids interested in conservation and woodworking…or perhaps a second channel geared toward the younger folks? Just a thought. 🙂 I love that you take on so many different creative endeavors, from vases to cooking utensils to beads. Keep making, and I’ll keep watching! Oh, and maybe Sal was just awaiting a bit of camera time…😬

FLORIDA!! 🤗 Citrus wood 🪵🪓

Where I live in CA Manzanita is definitely one of the hardest woods you can find. When they die they turn white like bone and the inside stays a deep vibrant crimson. Really cool tree. Sometimes cutting them with an axe or chainsaw will produce sparks. I'm curious how it would do on a lathe considering how brittle it is.

You can also buy dremel bits for polishing wheels that have a pointy threaded end that’s perfect for grabbing bits like tbis

Hey Justin, I’ve been enjoying random videos of yours I come across. Like the radiohead shirt :)

Silly cat must make maximum noise. Reminds me of my boy, Billy. He’s a loud boy, when it comes to meowing and purring

Interesting! I never knew there were uses for wood so dense it would sink. Around here we have Madrona trees, which have that same property. They are interesting to look at but useless as lumber because they are twisted and tend to crack as they dry. But now I can imagine making dice or beads from that wood, and it would be pretty cool.

this is really cool

Mountain Mahogany - my favorite!!!

I would love to see you do Connecticut on the map, which is either charter oak, or white oak, you choose. But I really do enjoy your content, and you should have more subscribers.

for Oregon id love to see an oak of some kind. Where I live, in the Willamette Valley, it used to be an oak savannah, and is considered on of the most damaged ecosystems in the state. most people thing of evergreens when they think of Oregon, our deciduous trees should get some love too!

Any Olive wood projects for this Christmas season?🎄😉 I so enjoy your videos!

3:33 enter Sal and his glorious meows

I was sitting there meowing back at ur cat😭😂 3:41

I would love to make some beads after watching this, I make glass beaded jewelry. I can definitely relate to the feeling of making something personally significant and being able to wear it. Love your work! 🌞

I cannot wait to see how this map turns out. If you need any help with North Dakota wood, I’d love to help. Also, I would absolutely recommend Knoephla or a juneberry Kuchen for a cooking project.

Do Tennessee! Our tree is the Tulip Poplar, one of the softest woods, but the flowers are pretty. Plus, the state is a pretty easy shape, and boarders 8 other states, so it's a key piece in the USA jigsaw puzzle ❤

ur one of the only ppl i’ve seen say nevada right omfg i love u 😭

I'm excited to make my own beads, thanks

Although I'm not a native resident of the South, I'll suggest the sourwood if you need some extra ideas. It has a moderately large range from the southwestern and southeastern points of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively all the way into the south (excluding most of Florida) stopping almost entirely once you go west of the Mississippi River