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14th August 2017, 04:58 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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Latest stick
This isn't an attempt to channel Robert 'Mousey' Thompson but I guess anytime you carve a mouse that my be a reasonable assumption. Supposed to be the Tasmanian endemic long tailed mouse. Huon pine with black heart sassy eyes. Feels fantastic in the hand!
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14th August 2017, 09:41 PM #2Woodworking mechanic
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Beautiful "stick"!
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17th August 2017, 11:10 PM #3
yes very beautiful
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19th August 2017, 02:20 AM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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Nice , very elegant looking.
That Huon pine looks like no type of pine I've ever seen !
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20th August 2017, 12:36 AM #5GOLD MEMBER
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20th August 2017, 12:27 PM #6Novice
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Hey Phil, great little mouse, clever fella you. That beautiful huon looks too good to use as a stick, unless it was a candy stick! I lived down the Huon for 40 years, am in White Beach now, looking across Storm Bay at the Channel. Lovely place, and wonderful wood.
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21st August 2017, 04:36 AM #7
nice one well done
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22nd August 2017, 04:11 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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Back in the 80's when we first arrived in Western Australia I worked with a Tasmanian who had an oilstone box made of HP, and waxed lyrical about this wonderful almost mythical timber. Obviously being a callow youth fresh off the boat as it were, I heard 'pine' and dismissed the stuff quite disparagingly as just another pine. Ah well we live and learn!
Not actually a pine (as in Pinus) at all. Looking at the growth rings on end grain you see how slow growing the stuff is. When you see the cold miserable places it grows you understand why it grows so slowly. You walk into a building where the wood is and smell it instantly. Even a couple of hours after putting my stick down I can detect the scent of it on my hands. Perhaps the thing that is not so great is the way so much of it gets turned into cheap tourist rubbish. I'm not sure how it's price compares with other timbers available to you but it is well worth trying a piece sometime.
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22nd August 2017, 04:14 PM #9SENIOR MEMBER
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24th August 2017, 10:58 AM #10
I was thinking the same thing about pine . a bit naff but now wish I could lay my hands on some
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5th September 2017, 08:36 AM #11Novice
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Very nice mate
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