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Thread: Liquid Amber
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24th May 2009, 11:55 PM #1Intermediate Member
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Liquid Amber
Hi all, I might be able to get my hands on some liquid amber. Two Trees ...... very old. Number 1 is about 600 thick and number 2 about 750.
Is it good for anything? Just thinking it would be a shame just to burn old trees like that.
Thanks
Reiner
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25th May 2009, 08:47 AM #2
mate grad it.
its brilliant timber.
i got a heap of blocks for turning blanks. wich tehy had of been logs.
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25th May 2009, 09:12 AM #3.
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I agree, It makes very nice timber.
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25th May 2009, 10:18 AM #4
Yeah Grab it Reiner LOL
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26th May 2009, 09:21 PM #5Member
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are they those trees with the little spikey "balls" that are always on the ground around the tree?
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26th May 2009, 09:29 PM #6
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28th May 2009, 11:05 AM #7
Anyone had experience with cuttin 'em? or pics of the sawn timber?
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Allan.
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28th May 2009, 01:07 PM #8
its brilliant to cut ill see if i can find some pics.
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28th May 2009, 08:26 PM #9Intermediate Member
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SO how are they different to plain trees? or is it the not so furry spikey ball?
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28th May 2009, 08:51 PM #10
Maybe they have heaps of yellow (amber) sappy (liquid) stuff in 'em LOL
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Allan.
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28th May 2009, 08:59 PM #11
i cant find any of my pics of liquid amber so here is one taken form google images.
really nice timber to work. hard to describe its almost rubbery.
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28th May 2009, 10:13 PM #12
looks an interesting colour/grain pattern - thanks Carl
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Allan.
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30th May 2009, 02:37 PM #13SENIOR MEMBER
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Nothing like each other Plane balls are fluffy where Liquidambar are hard and don't break up. Plane wood is sold as Lacewood and looks like fine structured Oak or very fine Silky Oak where as Liquidambar is a nothing looking wood but it is strong I have heard of a fellow who bought it to make axe handles.
It is also the worst fire wood I have ever tried to burn.
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30th May 2009, 06:41 PM #14Intermediate Member
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I'm still not sure if I get it or not. A friend of mine is a builder and he needs to get rid of the trees to built a Carport in Tamborine. The owner hired a tree lopper and I asked him what they do with the stumps. So he will ask the chainsaw man and if they don't have a use for them I might score the stumps. If not I want be to sad by the sound of things, it's not that I'm short on slabs since Sigidi was here )
cheers
Reiner
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30th May 2009, 10:06 PM #15
Reiner I'd be interested in slicing them up for me if you can secure the logs in a place for me to mill them some time in the near future?
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Allan.
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