Curly Forest Red Gum

[MAPLEMAN]

Milled these boards today,from a from a short Butt section,which stood about 1.5m high.Some 4x1's are shown here,with nice grain i reckon

[NewLou]

Droooooooool......................................

Thats simply stunning timber and came up a treat

Regards Lou

[Mr Brush]

How come you get all the good stuff??????

Does anything ever fall off the back of your ute?????

[Mr Brush]

Err... "I'm looking for some cranky grained timber to test out my new high angle plane blade. Send a piece over, and I'll send back photos of the finished product together with some shavings..."

[artme]

Err... "I'm looking for some cranky grained timber to test out my new high angle plane blade. Send a piece over, and I'll send back photos of the finished product together with some shavings..."

Lovely stuphph Mapleman!!!

[springwater]

Very specy, you need to give to me

[MAPLEMAN]

How come you get all the good stuff??????

Does anything ever fall off the back of your ute?????

Always looking out for that gnarly,old log.I think the back is about to fall off my ute!!

[pjt]

I like the middle pic, the gnarly old logs always have the best stuff in them


Pete

[nifty]

In the words of Bruce Macavaney, "Thats Special"

[MAPLEMAN]

Your right Nifty,they are 'special',sadly though didn't recover much sawn board from the 'ol log'.Has given me a new respect for Forest Red Gum though!

[groeneaj]

Beautiful

[nifty]

The thing is though mapleman, you can see the potential on the outside and just have to have a look Where i am in WA its not uncommon to come across marri logs that are curly on one half of the log. So its half furniture from the curly bit and half flooring from the other

[MAPLEMAN]

The thing is though mapleman, you can see the potential on the outside and just have to have a look Where i am in WA its not uncommon to come across marri logs that are curly on one half of the log. So its half furniture from the curly bit and half flooring from the other

There always seems to be a side of the log that cuts better than the other,as a rule of thumb. iI generally flitch the average side of the log first,then board remaing half .Qld Maple will often have curly grain down one side as well.sometimes all over.

[nifty]

If you ever have the chance to fall the tree before you mill it, mark the side of the log that faced north as it grew. You may be surprised every now and then that that side feels more difficult to cut. Ive found this in young jarrah