Thread: Redgum house stumps - useful or PITA?!

You'll need to scrub the outside real well with an wire brush before putting power tools over it.
You'd be better buying new stuff for an entertainment unit depending on the design.
The stumps would be great for one of those rolling butcher blocks.

Please don't burn it..

Yeeeaaaah, give 'em a pressure wash, and a scrub. You may be surprised at the prize that lies beneath. Often see lovely fiddleback in the humble fence paling.

I have found it very useful for turning also makes great coals in my woodfired pizza oven but it is a PITA to saw, screw, drill as it is very tough on the otherhand it does come up real well polished and seems very stable . I have run some through my bandsaw and thickie to see how it came up and it was very nice, hard work though.
What lengths do you have that you could make furniture from?

The tools at Knox woodworkers get blunted quite often with red gum stumps. People don't seem to want to blunt the tools they have at home for some reason. And one guy had to replace a busted doodad for the morticing machine. Having said that some beautiful furniture seems to be made from it too. Maybe it is worth it for the price of some tool steel. Thank god for HSS.

Redgum is tough stuff, especially the well aged gear. Once it settles down after being cut, it does become a beautiful wood to work. Grain can be a bit tricky at times, but often has some gorgeous figure. If your stumps are big enough to resaw boards from or even get turning blanks out of, don't burn them by any means. It burns brilliantly, too. But there's plenty of other bits of crappy wood to heat our bums with . As others have said though, you will want to give them a good clean before attacking them with any fine tools.

Tom.

Cheers guys. Sounds like the end result can be rewarding but there is a little hard yakka and maybe a few tool casualties to contend with. I am not sure what I am going to end up with in terms of quality or size but maybe some outdoor furniture might be more suitable.

I wouldn't hesitate to make something out it. OK there may be hard yakka involved and maybe a few sharpenings need during the creative period but I am sure it will be worth it.

Worst comes to worst - members will be falling over each other to purchase it from you, at good coin.

Everybody should build furniture with seasoned hardwood at least once.

I have not used stumps but made a blanket box out of red gum fence posts. Total cost $52 for camphor base and a bit of time cutting and machining. It is amazing what is underneath the grey outside colour.
As I am not sure how to link back to my thread on it you should be able to see it by searching for "redgum blanket box"

Thanks again to all. I think I will give it a go. Just quietly, it is a great way to justify the purchase of a thicknesser to the Chief Finance Officer!

Or join a mens shed or woodworking club and use their equipment (they will want you to scrub it)

Originally Posted by _fly_

Or join a mens shed or woodworking club and use their equipment (they will want you to scrub it)

That's a good idea too. There is one not too far from me.

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Check out my thread:

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f11/re...stumps-164720/

Don't burn them!