Thread: Latest stick

Beautiful "stick"!

yes very beautiful

Nice , very elegant looking.
That Huon pine looks like no type of pine I've ever seen !

Originally Posted by Mike the knife

Nice , very elegant looking.
That Huon pine looks like no type of pine I've ever seen !

Yep, and we've got it all!

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.

nice one well done

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.

Originally Posted by tasbloke

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.

Thanks tasbloke. If Bruny weren't in the way we could potentially see each other!

I was thinking the same thing about pine . a bit naff but now wish I could lay my hands on some

Very nice mate