Wattle good to turn or not?

[Pac man]

Helping FIL cut down some wattle trees. Is it worth stashing away until it is dry to turn? Branch in photo is 60-70 mm round. Trunk about 100mm.

[Avery]

If you can stop it from splitting, you can get some nice pieces out of it. I have had little luck in stopping it from splitting.

[John T]

HI PACMAN,
Silver wattle is good to turn green in larger sizes i turn a lot wattle bowls 300/450mm leave in corner of the shed for 4/5 months then finnish it has a very nice grain and nice lusture with danish oil.
john.

[hughie]

Sally wattle is fine

[wheelinround]

Black Wattle also good :2tsup:

[pommyphil]

Black Wattle, Green Wattle and of course A.melanoxylon, Blackwood with the usual care to avoid splitting.

[smiife]

hi pacman,
i have had a few attempts at turning sally wattle and all have ended the same way:oo:


Sally wattle is fine

if you can cut out the centre it might be alright
if it's only 60mm/70mm it is probably not worth it
if you want my opion i would burn it rather than turn it :o:o:o
just my two bobs worth
cheers smiife:2tsup:

[Cliff Rogers]

Wattle is an acacia & there are somewhere between 950 & 1000 different sorts of Acacia in Australia & more than 1350 worldwide.

It all varies, some of it is magnificent if you cut it & store it the right way.

I love the side grain of Brown Salwood AKA Sally Wattle but the end grain isn't so good.

Blackwood & Gidgee probably the best, Mulga is pretty inside but the stuff I have tried cracked.

List of Acacia species - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acacia_species)

[Cliff Rogers]

Oops, I forgot about Raspberry Jam but I haven't tried it.

[chuck1]

I was given part of a tree the old farmer called it hickory wattle and it turned up nice!

[Cliff Rogers]

There are 4 things called Hickory Wattle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_falciformis
Acacia implexa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_implexa)
Acacia mangium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_mangium)
Acacia penninervis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_penninervis)