Mixed Bag of Small Wood Curiosities - Batch #2

The Wet & Cold day continues…. More trimming of woods planned to offer to pen turners (most too small for anything else)

Here are more interesting species I planned to offer. Most are Aussie species but some exotics too. Wood information is provided as its a Timber Section.

Below from left to right…NOTE THESE ARE ALL ROUGH SAWN, with no finish applied or wetting of wood, unless specified.

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Spalted European Beech (Fagus sylvatica): This wood has always been a favourite European timber fro making tools but is used in Europe as a firewood too. It shows fine medullary ray figure (just visible) but this peice also shows bold black lines from a spalting fungal attack.

Amboyna Burl (Pterocarpus indica) A particularly beautiful wood with pink-red-orange colours and with nice contrasting sapwood. This piece shows fine birdseye figure and is highly desired with pens often selling in range $120-$150.

Coastal Rosewood (Dysoxylum fraserianum) defying its Latin genus name (evil smelling) this wood is called a rosewood became it has a pleasant rose like odour. It is a coastal species (in contrast to other Aust dryland species also called rosewood, one Alectryon oleifolius and other an Acacia rhodoxylon. This wood is red with a wavy figure. Another pic of wavy rosewood is shown below.. It finished a deep red, these are dry unfinished pieces. Also see separate pic of a figured coated block (below).

Ringed Gidgee (Acacia cambagei) Above far right.... with typical dark chocolate brown heartwood with fine rings / waves / ripples of fiddleback grain. Always a favourite and deservedly so as a beautiful wood.

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Inland Beefwood burl (Grevillea striata) is a slow growing desert species which grows for hundreds of years. It wood is a dark blood-red resembling beef meat. It has nice rays which in these pieces are twisted into a burl figure which some contrasting pale sapwood for even more drama. Sometimes it has a some resin. Some sides have a varnished coating.
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BELOW under the Coastal Rosewood: Queensland Woody Pear (Xylomelum species possibly X. scottianum), harder and heavier than the WA species but otherwise similar, with a dark red brown wood with prominent rays typical of Proteaceae family. A curiosity if you have the others and want to see how this Eastern species compares.

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Finally below from top to bottom

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Grey Mangrove: (Avicennia marina) a fascinating wood as it has "occluded bark" (wood overgrows the bark). This means it its open grained and needs care (filling) to strengthen it BUT is interesting and worth it in my opinion, A nice grey wood with white or darker blue grey areas, sometimes. I have some black mangrove which I provided to a member PH to test his skills )

CurlyMessmate (Eucalyptus obliqua) yes another boring eucalypt with a mid brown wood but its pretty when its figured. This one is curly

Curly Cheesetree (Glochidion ferdinandi) .. a curiosity for its colour purple grey, with medium grain / texture and light-medium density. Again one to try or have in your collection, IF you are curious. Called "cheese tree" because its fruit is shaped a bit like a tiny round of cheese.

Finally below Sandplain Mallee (Eucalyptus ebbanoensis) : an uncommon desert species from WA. These pieces both show curly grain and sapwood, and a interesting grey-brown heartwood,.

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