Thread: Tea Tree Box?????????

A great looking box and very nice timber. Well done.

very nice timber and great work = a beaut box
les

Has turned out great. Like the timber.

that's a beauty. did it smell nice while you were working it?

That sure is lovely timber. And the box turned out real nice too.

from beautiful timber!!

Tea tre, Ti-tree and Mellaleuca are terms that are often used to describe or name members of the Mellaleuca family.
From what I've experienced the grain is attractive like that in the pics., particularly if cut the right way.

Thank you for your comments.

This is the first box made of a timber unknown to me. I didn't really know what it was, as I had no bark or leaves. I was told it was tea tree, but when milled on the bandsaw, it only had a dank dusty smell, so I was a little puzzled.

However the grain was great and was easy to work. And there is half a trailor load waiting for me to pick up when I next get down the coast. Only small branches 3 inches and less though.

Robert

Nice box and timber

Lovely box, showing off the natural beauty of the wood.

well done specialist,
box looks great, how often we overlook aussie timber,black wattle has a similar grain
& look, it's just a shade darker.how big does tea tree grow up there, most of the tea tree around where I live die's after about 6-9 years old' thus it is only around 20-25cm in dia, got given some "molga" from a mate at brokenhill once, enchanted timber....