Thread: Gidgee?

Frank very nice carve like the spoon great

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

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

Originally Posted by The Hun

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

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".

Great work F&E! the spoon is a real showpiece,

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.