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Thread: What can you use milky pine for?
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2nd September 2008, 06:27 PM #1
What can you use milky pine for?
I have quite a few slabs of milky pine.
Today we played around with a small piece.
It is nothing like pine at all.
It is a light brownish colour, sort of like meranti not white like pine, hardly any grain pattern and BOY is it dense. It was like cutting concrete.
Almost impossible for the bandsaw to keep a straight line despite have a resaw blade mounted. I haven't got a decent tablesaw
Put it through the thicknesser and it stopped the machine. No, I was only cutting 1/2 mm deep. Put it through the jointer and the surface was like silk.
I wanted to make an entertainment unit, just to last until the white apple we cut down 6 months ago has cured and I can make the unit I want.
The figure in the white apple (sysygium) is absolutely fantastic. We cut a small piece up and treated it. I cannot wait for the slabs to be ready, patience was never my strangest forte.
Can't take a pic, my camera has karked it.
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2nd September 2008, 11:21 PM #2
Wolffie,
milky pine used to be used for butter and cheese boxes, patternmaking, toys and painted (usually) mouldings. It's not a grat looking timber and tends to have latex veins in it which show up as elliptical voids about 10 -15mm long. It's pretty soft and I'm suprised your thicknesser struggled with it. Perhaps it clogged it up? I've run some through my machines and didn't have a problem.
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
- Henry Ford 1938
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3rd September 2008, 08:18 AM #3
Wolffie, I reckon you've got a case of mistaken ID. Any MP I've encounterd is as Mick says, soft - its alternative name of 'Cheesewood' sez it all. (Forest Trees of Aust. gives the ADD as .44, so it certainly shouldn't be 'heavy'.) You sure you haven't got a chunk of Penda??
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3rd September 2008, 09:56 AM #4
Here is a scan of the chunk I made yesterday. Sorry the first one is so dark.
It measures 585x110x60 mm and weight 2.7 kg, so it is is quite heavy.
It was felled by Cyclone Larry and I bought it as chesewood just to have something cheap around with.
I have absolutely no idea what Penda is.
Thanks for helping me identify it.
Wolffie
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3rd September 2008, 10:03 AM #5
Common names can cause confusion.
Milky Pine Alstonia scholaris
Milky Pine Cerbera floribunda
Milky Pine Cerbera inflata
Milkwood Alstonia actinophylla
Milkwood Alstonia scholaris
Northern Milkwood Alstonia actinophylla
Cheesewood Nauclea orientalis
Cheesewood Pittosporum bicolor
Cheesewood Sarcocephalus cordatus
Cheesewood Xanthophyllum octandrumCliff.
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3rd September 2008, 10:13 AM #6
Doesn't look like Penda (I was just being flippant - Penda is one of the hardest & heaviest rainforest woods around your parts). But it doesn't look like the MP, I'm used to, which is A. scholaris. There are several other species of Alstonia, as Cliff has just pointed out, & one of those may be the culprit in this case. It's not unusual for two closely-related species to have entirely different working properties!
Common-names can be a right PITA....
Cheers,IW
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3rd September 2008, 10:38 AM #7
thanks for the replies
We just went and checked the other slabs and, yes, they are as soft as butter. This one must have been mixed in by mistake and we just happened to pick that one first .
Now I will go back and play with my new tambour router buts and the cheap timber.
Woulld love to know what that piece is though.
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3rd September 2008, 06:31 PM #9SENIOR MEMBER
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Does that work out to 700kg per cubic metre?
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Is that odd slab perhaps brush box ?
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3rd September 2008, 11:53 PM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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It certainly is pretty wood. The weight might help rule out what it isnt.
Donna
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4th September 2008, 07:41 PM #13
Problem solvered
It is Melaleuca aka ti-tree.
Still have no idea how it ended up among the milky pine.
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I have 3m/3of milky pine been stacked for 30 years. I no longer will use it. 210mmX 155 x 3m to 4m long plus300x 40 planks.
Does any one have an Idea of what its worth cubic metre and who might be interested in it?
Thanks Col
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short answer is that its worth not much.
Treated Milky is regarded as about the best fascia timber you can get (being all sapwood it takes up a lot of treatment chemical so is far more durable then most anything else while still being light and stable)
Untreated its good for pattern making which is a dying art so not much call there.
Also makes excellent concrete formwork.
But mostly we sell it for door cores. Again being light and stable lends itself well to being a veneering substrate.
For all the above uses it has no more value then any other cheap timber.
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