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Sawdust Maker
2nd January 2010, 09:49 PM
You may recall the charity bowl/platter fest from earlier in 2009
I entered this (got one vote ... from mum:2tsup:)
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Anyway I thought it might have been spotted gum - the blank and its mates were liberated from the nature strip opposite MILs. I based my conclusion on the bark which to me looked like spotty.

Someone commented that it wasn't spotted gum:doh:
anyone got any idea what it might be?
here are a couple of blanks from the same liberated nature strip bits of logs

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thanks

rsser
6th January 2010, 07:45 PM
How accurate are the tones in the bowl pic Nick?

funkychicken
6th January 2010, 08:05 PM
There's a chance that it is spotty, but I'm not good at reading chainsaw marks, I'm only fluent in bench sawn and lucas milled:D

bench1holio
6th January 2010, 08:51 PM
looks like chinese elm to me!

hughie
6th January 2010, 09:33 PM
looks like chinese elm to me!Dunno, the sap wood is not as pale as I normally see around Sydney.

mick61
6th January 2010, 09:47 PM
Its spalted something what`s it smell like when turning?
Mick:D

Allen Neighbors
7th January 2010, 11:20 AM
Whatever it is... it's purty!

Sawdust Maker
7th January 2010, 04:13 PM
How accurate are the tones in the bowl pic Nick?

Ern

pretty close - I remember playing with the piccie in photoshop at the time


PS
I'm pretty sure that it is a eucalypt - In fact looks similiar to some lemon scented gum I acquired recently