Thread: Nice Blackwood

Originally Posted by Emit

This is outstanding!
Love the quilting in that one piece. That's a serious gold mine for luthiers!

Yeah dark as also. Got quite a few blocks like that. Unfortunately, I was so intent on cutting the log on the quarter for the compression figuring that I failed to notice what was happening on the back sawn face. so that extra good quilting is on narrow faces mostly (50mm). Oh well its all a learning curve and I will be ready for it next time.

Some mores samples from recent weeks.

Originally Posted by TasSculptor

Milled a knarly blackwood last week. Full of figure. Doesnt look like it in the pic but it has some extra deep 3D effect when you move it around.

gday everyone, tas ,that is some fine wood you have there,do you have small size blocks that could be used to make knife handles and would they need to be hardend,great photo's

Originally Posted by useit

gday everyone, tas ,that is some fine wood you have there,do you have small size blocks that could be used to make knife handles and would they need to be hardend,great photo's

It is beautiful wood and makes really good knife scales. It is a good Acacia hardwood, so doesn't need hardening, but I always recommend all knife scales to be stabilised.

Another big old Blackwood getting milled this week.

Now to dock, resaw and rack this sucker. Lots of figure and colour in this one.

Got it all sorted and racked now. Took a couple of pics first.

Some Quilted Blackwood. Going to make some nice boxes out of some of this one day.

Im cutting a big old blackwood at the moment that has some extra nice quilted figure. I couldnt resist putting a little slab through the planer.

A few more and you can join Mapleman!!

A couple more quilted blocks.