Thread: Musical Instr / Spindle Turers - Squares - Specials some RARE WOODS

Items 3 &4 are both called Lancewood

#3 Desert / Dryland Lancewood (Acacia shirleyi)

small knot & sapwood & chip near corner, otherwise dry & sound
very dense & hard, strange greenish in tones of brown & often streaked

Size: 45 x 45 x 243 ........... $25

#4 Dead Finish / Red Lancewood

46 x 46 x 355 mm ......... $35

Very dense, hard, fine texture with a pretty wood colours in tones of pink-red-purple, with some dark lines.
Best when freshly turned & finished quickly as colours will fade in light

sapwood on edge at one end very small knot near one edge

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Item #5 & 6 are GIDGEE fine select (perhaps instrument grade)

cut from a quarter-sawn slab, dry hard, dark chocolate brown (except if freshly sawn, see on two faces), lustrous & oily,

one has a small fault end check which will likely turn out so its discounted a bit

#5 55 x 55 x 296 mm ... $50

#6 55 x 55 x 296 ............$40 (with small fault see pic below )

Gidgee are the 2 blocks / squares on right in pics below

Cooktown Ironwood (Red Ironwood)

Suit instruments of tool handles etc, Dry, deep red orange, very dense, tough & hard ,
no cracks knots or similar faults, almost straight grain but some mild wavy-ness evident on pics.

268 x 63 x 49 mm ..............$50 (on left in pic below)

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Above: Cooktown Ironwood on left & Gidgee (2) on right. Those are 2 freshly cut surfaces above

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Above: Cooktown Ironwood on left & Gidgee (2) on right

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Above Cooktown Ironwood (showing some wavy figure / grain)

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Above end check in lower priced Gidgee square

Please note COLOURS in real life are much brighter than shown.
My aim is show faults / sapwood as well as wood beauty ... colour is a letdown ... sorry

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