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Thread: Silky Oak Mango Black Wattle
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24th May 2013, 09:51 PM #1
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Silky Oak Mango Black Wattle
The nieghbor of where I was doing some milling a while back had cut some trees down, right, so that meant I had to have a look! the logs and branches all pushed up in a pile waiting to be burnt, managed to get back there before that, smallish size but still worth the effort, all of the logs had a few forks so hopefully I can find some nice flame pattern, a few pics from the days efforts....
mango with dark stripe.jpgmango nail.jpgsilky oak.jpgcloseup SO.jpgugly brown wattle.jpgfork pattern.jpgmain log first cut.jpg
The Mango has an interesting dark stripe and of course a nail or two, I thought it was going to be a lot worse for blue/green stain but it's not to bad, the SO is nice and clean, the Black Wattle is a horrible looking thing but once the smashed bits and forks were trimmed off I should get some nice 300ish wide boards and maybe some more flame once I get down into the middle a bit more, that's tomorrow!!
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24th May 2013, 10:00 PM #2
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The mango gets the stains through it after it is cut.
I love the timber, I hate the stains.
I have tried all sorts of things to stop it.
Best results I had were from cutting it into bowl blanks for turning & then soaking & washing it over & over to get as much sap out as I could & then rough turning it & sticking it in a plastic bag in the freezer for a couple of months.Cliff.
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25th May 2013, 08:11 PM #3
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Wow. That's a lot of messing about.
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
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25th May 2013, 09:45 PM #4
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Cut the rest of the B. Wattle today, unfortunately no crotch figure, the two branches were too close together resulting in a bark inclusion, I guess that's the way it goes!
smashed piece.jpgfiddleback.jpgmango fork.jpgcrane.jpg
The first pic is of a split section, I guess from when it was felled, pity cos it has what looks like some nice fiddleback, won't throw it away just yet tho
, some nice crotch pattern in the Mango and I do like my crane on the trailer
I think with the blue stain as Cliff says it starts when it is cut, but I think conditions have to be right for it to completely go thru it, like I said I was suprised that there wasn't more of it in the log, maybe because it was cut some months ago in the warmer months, we have had a bit of rain tho, I am going to bung these bits of Mango into the kiln and dry them in preference to air dry as I would normally, that may stop any further developement of stain, I'd like to see if I can get some nice clean white stuff.
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25th May 2013, 09:47 PM #5
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Hilyte 80 works a treat but it is poisonous. Originally Posted by Bushmiller
Cliff.
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26th May 2013, 06:53 AM #6
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one of the guys at my local club gets heap of mango and uses them for making fishing reels , the method he uses is really easy but hard labour , it involves bashing the crap out of the bark debarking the timber as soon as he cuts it down or goes to where it has been cut down as then seals it at home he gets it to stay a beautiful nice creamy colour with none of the black stains Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
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