Thread: Some nice wood.

Hi All,
A couple of years ago I started getting into woodworking and turning and was looking for free wood wherever I could. I picked up a bunch of Cassia fistula, aka Indian laburnum or golden shower tree. Grows like a weed around Townsville.
The timber is beautiful. The sapwood is quite pale and the heartwood yellowish through to pinkish when first cut, but the heartwood darkens with exposure to light to a rich chocolate brown. The sapwood is borer heaven, but they can't or won't eat the heartwood. I've had pieces so chewed up on the outside you can crumble the sap with your hands - heart was solid.
It is heavy (800kg/cube) and quite hard but turns nicely and takes a beautiful polish just with wax.
Some pix;
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First pic is a cutting board I made 18 months ago, next 2 are a carved bowl I did for my mother's birthday.