Thread: Black wattle

Here's the Black Wattle stacked and ready to be weighted down. So far no warping or cracking (fingers crossed).

The logs were 1/4 sawn (including 2 qtr sawn slabs) so yield wasn't great but still some beautiful timber there.

Originally Posted by WillBrook

Here's the Black Wattle stacked and ready to be weighted down. So far no warping or cracking (fingers crossed).

The logs were 1/4 sawn (including 2 qtr sawn slabs) so yield wasn't great but still some beautiful timber there.

Make sure you cover it up. So the sun and rain don't affect them.
Regards
Jamie

Nice job, milled some Acacia Shirleyi Lancewood in the NT a few years back quarter cut, used boards to deck a forty foot trailer cross wise hard timber loaded a D7 dozer on that trailer and where the steel tracks had slipped on the boards it put burn marks on it. This timber has a bad rep for splitting usually the first twelve inches or so and grows with a twist in the trunk in the larger specimens which certainly dosen't make it any easier. But beautiful timber all the same.

I wonder is it Acacia melanoxylon or Acacia mearnsii or Callicoma serratifolia? Tried to googled it but getting confused here.

It will be Acacia mearnsii. Acacia melanoxylon is the proper name for Blackwood. Acacia dealbata is commonly called Silver Wattle in Tasmania. I read somewhere that in the past, dodgy timber merchants would mill Silver and Black Wattle, them sponge it down with a solution of Hydrated Lime and water. This made it a lot darker and they would sell it as Blackwood. Big problem with this is that it would fade if exposed to light and if you resawed or thicknessed it, you would see the real colour and realise you had been had.