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7th August 2009, 04:14 PM #16GOLD MEMBER
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7th August 2009, 05:01 PM #17
Frank very nice carve like the spoon great
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7th August 2009, 07:14 PM #18Novice
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nice work
i have two gidgee stumps i think ? very hard and has a very strong smell sort of like turps mixed with something ,got them from forest near Moonee or Mooree not quite sure on way home between Queensland and South Aust, got lost and ended up heading for Birdsville
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10th August 2009, 10:59 PM #19Member
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Gidgee - new suggestion
Hi Frank
Looking at the 2nd picture and thinking a little it could be mulga
It is still very hard, a better match for the grain and the colour
I can't see it being blackwood from furniture I have made using blackwood
Regards
Peter
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Thanks Peter, I agree that the two timbers are very similar if the yellow sapwood of mulga is not there to distinguish them. Photographs on the web show variations that do not allow a clear distinction either, but at least narrowing down to these two we can definitely say "Australian desert timber".
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14th August 2009, 09:02 PM #21Skwair2rownd
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Great work F&E! the spoon is a real showpiece,
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24th August 2009, 05:38 PM #22
Nice work, the growth rings on the spoon look far to wide for what I think Gidgee is. A hard timber with very dark colour bordering to almost black, dense as all heck and tight grained, very heavy by weight.I would imagine very slow growing. The spoon doesn,t seem to fit that category to me. That's the best I can do.
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