Willy Nelson
5th March 2016, 12:45 AM
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen
Just returned from two weeks of LSL
Firstly, a freak cyclone ripped through a local town here in WA. the swathe of destruction was bizarre as I live 20 minutes away, we had no inkling of any wind or rain, yet they lost hundreds of trees and were deluged.
The first call I got was an invite out to the golf course where hundreds and trees were down and we could take our pick, everything from massive pines (cough, spit), marri, Jarrah, banksia, Sheoak and many others.
The second call was a 400 acre property who had a heap of trees down. Unfortunately, they were all cut up by tree crews and in the 40 deg had split, except for the trunk of this massive Sugar gum. I have taken about a ton of turning blanks and left the rest for a mate (pictured, who is a professional turner). Sugar gum can be reasonably bland, very similar to Marri, but without all the gum veins.
The pictured slabs are not cracked, they are subtle gum veins. Oh yeah, spot the Mallee Burl in the background.
This timber is heavy, bloody heavy, can't wait for it to dry
I have turned stunningly curly sugar gum for pens, twas nice to turn
Cheers
Willy
Jarrahland
Just returned from two weeks of LSL
Firstly, a freak cyclone ripped through a local town here in WA. the swathe of destruction was bizarre as I live 20 minutes away, we had no inkling of any wind or rain, yet they lost hundreds of trees and were deluged.
The first call I got was an invite out to the golf course where hundreds and trees were down and we could take our pick, everything from massive pines (cough, spit), marri, Jarrah, banksia, Sheoak and many others.
The second call was a 400 acre property who had a heap of trees down. Unfortunately, they were all cut up by tree crews and in the 40 deg had split, except for the trunk of this massive Sugar gum. I have taken about a ton of turning blanks and left the rest for a mate (pictured, who is a professional turner). Sugar gum can be reasonably bland, very similar to Marri, but without all the gum veins.
The pictured slabs are not cracked, they are subtle gum veins. Oh yeah, spot the Mallee Burl in the background.
This timber is heavy, bloody heavy, can't wait for it to dry
I have turned stunningly curly sugar gum for pens, twas nice to turn
Cheers
Willy
Jarrahland