Thread: blue fig

Your way to far for me to consider this;
but I would love to see some pics of what's under the bark, pls.

Popular with boat builders back in the day
Good steam bending properties
And also very stable...particularly quarter sawn
This material ideal for instrument making
Milled a bit in the past
Beware pinhole borer loves the stuff
It also has a distinctive smell
Brown Quandong is my favourite... (Eleaocarpus coorangooloo)
Good luck...looking forward to the milling pics
Log Dog

Go as wide as you can for any quarter sawn areas and remove the heartwood. Luthiers would be interested in pieces 50-60mm thick and 900-1000mm long x 300+wide.
Anything close to quarter sawn would be more desirable for anyone making furniture too. If you are going to cut it at 50 mm thick, by the time it’s resawn and put through a thicknesser it may be a bit thin for furniture.

It's good stuff and well worth milling. I'd be inclined to go a bit thicker than 50mm and set the saw for 60mm. The closer your timber is to full dimension when dry the better. It makes it moe interesting to potential buyers.

At the moment I'm building a hall table with drawers from silver quondong. I came across seasoned/dry 55mm x 450mm slab (milled to 40mm legs) and some rough milled 200 x 25+mm boards locally some of which which were a bit twisted and cupped, so it was a squeeze to mill to 20 x150's. Timber is mostly a lovely pale cream, straight grained and easy to work, so overall I'm happy enough and will probably use more when wanting a pale timber. I'd say its well worth milling as suggested by others.

Thanks to all for replies....I will mill 60 thk. as suggested and I will be able to get at least 1 full width slab from each length .
Cheers.

This used to be the timber of choice when way back I was a cabinet maker very little movement when dry and a beautiful grain to work.