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Hi Poley
I've been collecting and using "driftwood" from our local beaches for about 10 years. It is mainly Coastal Teatree:
Melaleuca quinquenervia,Leptospermum laevigatum, I'm not sure at the mo...

Thats "Tim The Timber Turner" not "Tim The Timber Man" you idiot, not to say that Tim isn't a Man though, I'm outta here, see ya

...the search continues; Vic Wood hasn't/didn't answer my email which is cool I left him with the option not to considering the tiny amount I need, just about to email Tim at Bowerbird but finding it...

The old Uni in Sydney trick eh?

Thanks to all for the info, I'll let you know the results.

Cheers
Harry

I have been making braclets from small wooden beads in the shape of hearts I carved from Huon Pine, Tassie Myrtle and some really old Jarra. All have been soaked in Linseed Oil for a week and have...

About 8years ago I had to cut an old Nectarine Tree down as it wasn't producing well and had lost most of the sunlight as a Oak was musceling over it. I was only just starting to keep an eye out for...

Who spent the time getting the EYE?

Thanks Eastie my fears confirmed.

Better late than never, printers use a spray on product which is silicon based as a anti- corrosive (sorry I forget the name but it's used extensively in the printing game). Be careful with any...

Don what do you call manageable lengths? I'd look around for someone with a portable mill to slab or board your tree up for you then take advice of the posts above as you will. What do you intend to...

Western Red Cedar would be a good choice: light, good out in the weather, looks good, relatively cheap but may be a bit soft for your use but in plank form say 22mm thick, tongue and grooved I reckon...

Pumas Stone and teeth gritted, maybe a scotch or two before.

I'll get around to making a jig for the same purpose as yours Vonrek, the plans in my head but have I have wondered about the max size router bit you can safley use so as to maximise cutting area. I...

I used to know a place that made pallets and they used to chuck their waste into bins for all to have. Albeit a bit on the green side but definately OK for practice and handy when you just want a...

getting there, go for gold gold gold

Thanks for the info doorstop I knew I should of explained things; I don't want to make craypots I live in an area where I can get crays wholesale anyway, I have always lived near the sea and have...

Yeh Yuk too much yella making it all look too cheap fella

Thanks ubeaut and doorstop, can you tell me where to get cane from?

...and steel wood from?

Can anyone tell me what the wood they use in Crayfish Pot construction is named?

I need a small quantity of waterproof glue that has a strong bond, any suggestions?(Resonal maybe?)

It's late OK. Goodnight

..and I had my first...on it, com to think of it that's when my back started playing up and hey that's when Marys did too...MARY!

The birch high tensile forked leg connector was hand picked.

I loved that table.

Their the bastards that stole it.

It's got to be time to consider the source of AUSTRALIAN OAK. I've been guilty in the past of buying it and I've seen the log trucks and I see the drivers and loggers and I've got a family too you...

Sorry for the late reply but I just had to have a say about this topic.

If you have to have red gum bench tops, then make very sure that the timber is very dry. I've heard one story that would...

Why not just start again?

Cut the handle off about 2 inches before the head, position the head and what's left of the handle over a vice that is open enough to clear the handle coming through and beat the cut end of the...

The reason for the two botanical names Huon Pine goes by is because there is/has been a transition from the old name: H. Dacrydium franklinii to H. Lagarostrobus franklinii the reason I do not know....

Thanks for the info Kev, I just needed to label a table I made with the correct botanical names of the wood I used and because I can't remember how to spell things the two names came up for both Huon...

Theres a big opening for some common Tasmanian humurous slur here (if anyone is game?) but why the two names?

Another one:

Coast Banksia Banksia attenuata
Coast Banksia Banksia integrifolia

What's the diff?

Huon Pine Dacrydium franklinii
Huon Pine Lagarostrobus franklinii

What's the diff?

You know sometimes when you try and ask a serious question about something your heavly into and someone (Neil) has to go and spoil it by having a sense of humour, how was I to expect in reply a...

G'day all
Can anyone advise on a type of wood that I could use to make small pegs for joinery. I don't mean dowel like you can buy usually made from Hoop Pine, Radiata, Vic Ash etc,I mean something...

Can anyone suggest a suitable finish for a hall table which has a Coastal Banksia top? I have retained a 'natural' edge on the front which has a very open grain where further in the heart while the...

Thanks for all your help. It looks like I'm going to have to use the old trial and error method before I launch into production. Better say a few hail marys now. I'll let you know how I go.

Thanks Ian, considering who makes this great site possible could you advise on a non-flamable finish for desklamps?

You people are definately crazy!
Thanks for the entertainment.
The crazyest thing I've seen are bananas and other fruit made from Huon Pine.

Thanks Dave, your advice gives me a point of reference to how tight the tension should be but I'm sure if I do as you say then the tension seems a bit "slopy" which makes the blade wonder therefore...

Your a fairdinkum gem Westie.

Thanks Heaps

Can anyone suggest where I can any info on making hand planes, spokeshaves and scorps etc.
Thanks Jonno for the direction on scrollsaws.

I bought a second hand Ryobi 16" scrollsaw and the first weekend I used it the tension adjustment gave way possibly because of my heavy handedness but maybe it was on the way out, anyway it's fixed...

Sorry I stuffed the last post up, I was so happy to find my password after a momentary lapse in memmory, once I found it I bunged it in and hit the enter button without even replying good one. Anyway...

Cheers Dave

Without going down the shed to see what your talking about I think I know what you mean but was the chip deflector specifically intended to do its job with the router upside down? This...

I reckon you would still have a go at your lathe if you were in a full body cast.

Give it heaps Glenn but please be careful and keep writing your stories a classic.

I treat Huon Pine like gold - precious. People have been ripping it from its home for 200 years - it does not grow natually anywhere else but in Tasmaia - it's very very very slow growing - and it...

Hi Glenn
Couldn't help reply to your words as I know what your going through. Sounds like Graeme is a good bloke wish there was more of them although I must say woodworkers in general have good...