What Australian timber can be riven?

[mic-d]

I see a lot of references to riven oak in the old countries, along with ash and elm and mention made of riving being successful on timbers with obvious ray planes. So I'm curious to know what Australian timbers have been successfully riven, (is splitting fence posts riving?) I imagine grevilleas and casuarina would rive well?
found this interesting site
http://www.greenwoodworking.com/riving/riving.htm
Cheers
Michael

[sundowner]

Michael jarrah,remember 3d per post split a start,Graham

[Claw Hama]

Interesting Mickyd, I am (as soon as some of my commissioned work is out of the way) going to do some chairs of varying design and was going to do riven legs and panels as they make the strongest legs. Hope you get some info on timber etc if I find anything out I will post it.

[mic-d]

Michael jarrah,remember 3d per post split a start,Graham

Cheers Graham thanks for that. Since I'm a banana bender and still only a spring chicken I didn't know you could get jarrah split posts for 3d. I was born on the cusp of the decimal introduction. I bet they're a bit more than that now!


Interesting Mickyd, I am (as soon as some of my commissioned work is out of the way) going to do some chairs of varying design and was going to do riven legs and panels as they make the strongest legs. Hope you get some info on timber etc if I find anything out I will post it.
Ta, and I'll let you know of my progress too. Funnily enough, I started thinking about it for a chair design too.

Cheers
Michael

[flynnsart]

Used to be a fella at the Riverside Markets in Brisbane who used to use Brigalow for his riven chair legs. I think most wattles of the right size would be worth trying. We used to find the black wattle would split easily.

Donna

[weisyboy]

Grey gum, stringy bark and blood wood all split well.

i wouldn't know of others as we don't use them for posts

[Claw Hama]

Found this little tit bit where the guy made possum chairs from riven Tasie Blackwood which sounds good to me. So long as you can pick out your pieces by hand so you get nice straight grain.
www.woodreview.com.au/competitions/remade/winners/remade24.html (http://www.woodreview.com.au/competitions/remade/winners/remade24.html)

[mic-d]

Grey gum, stringy bark and blood wood all split well.

i wouldn't know of others as we don't use them for posts

Thanks Weisy, I might have a chat to you if you get some in.


Found this little tit bit where the guy made possum chairs from riven Tasie Blackwood which sounds good to me. So long as you can pick out your pieces by hand so you get nice straight grain.
www.woodreview.com.au/competitions/remade/winners/remade24.html (http://www.woodreview.com.au/competitions/remade/winners/remade24.html)

So you don't need to have 'tree wet' timber? Can you use seasoned?

Cheers
Michael

[weisyboy]

iv always got plenty of Grey gum and stringy bark.

did you want small logs or what?

[mic-d]

iv always got plenty of Grey gum and stringy bark.

did you want small logs or what?

Ahh, I don't know exactly, I should get a few other jobs out of the way and buy some tools for green woodworking, by that time I should know a bit more to know what I need.

Cheers
Michael

[mic-d]

Just some more greenwoodworking pages.
Start at the last link and work back, a guy doing a series on making a chair.
http://www.buzzle.com/authors.asp?author=8348
not very interesting


http://www.heartofthewood.com/riving1.htm

[mic-d]

an interesting pdf (http://www.woodworkforums.com/www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/staff/milesbl/australian-building/pdfs/timber-grass/timber-grass-shingles.pdf)on shingles in Australia

Cheers
Michael