Thread: Descent sized Marri

Noice Marri
But where are the photos of the slabs?
Cheers
Willy
Jarrahland

Looks good, hopefully you won't get too many big kino lines through it.

dont look like hes slabbing it to me.

looks good, seams as thow it might be a bit gummy.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

dont look like hes slabbing it to me.

looks good, seams as thow it might be a bit gummy.

Which part of it looks good?? Shakes and fault lines throughout,seriously a log worthy for burning i'm afraid Crikey

the mill

that is what i thaught when i saw it to but at least he using his mill there is enough around not getting used.

Originally Posted by MAPLEMAN

Which part of it looks good?? Shakes and fault lines throughout,seriously a log worthy for burning i'm afraid Crikey

That's how all the local millers and fallers used to talk 50 years ago, because they were mainly milling for structural timber, but these days their tune has changed. Marri is now used in fine furniture including the faults and shakes if they're not too bad, and the chinese are willing to pay big bucks for this stuff. There's a "Wealthy" church that seats about 800 people a few km from here where all the pews are made from this stuff and it looks stunning - somebody made a serious killing from that job. The miller just has to learn how to operate around the major faults but does not have to remove them all because marketing has talked consumers around into accepting minor faults as being part of a natural product. Just stick "Marri furniture" into Google images and it will show what I mean. I'd much rather see this wood turned into something useful like furniture than being burned.

For once (and maybe the only time ) I reckon the marketing people have got it right.

Originally Posted by BobL

That's how all the local millers and fallers used to talk 50 years ago ,because they were mainly milling for structural timber, but these days their tune has changed. Marri is now used in fine furniture including the faults and shakes if they're not too bad, and the chinese are willing to pay big buck for this stuff. There's a "Wealthy" church that seats about 800 people a few km from here where all the pews are made from this stuff - somebody made a serious killing from that job. The miller just has to learn how to operate around the major faults but does not have to remove them all because marketing has talked consumers around into accepting minor faults as being part of a natural product. For once I reckon the marketing people have got it right.

Bob,those faults are not minor,and milling around them would compromise recovery greatly.That grain is seriously ugly,have burnt prettier timber.As for furniture grade,this log would not produce the goods.Again,crikey!!

Originally Posted by weisyboy

the mill

that is what i thaught when i saw it to but at least he using his mill there is enough around not getting used.

Yep,at least the mill is being used,and that's a good thing

Originally Posted by MAPLEMAN

Bob,those faults are not minor,and milling around them would compromise recovery greatly.That grain is seriously ugly,have burnt prettier timber.As for furniture grade,this log would not produce the goods.Again,crikey!!

Well it may be ugly but it's still worth milling.

Did you actually bother to go and look at the google images of the marri furniture? It's full of kino - sometimes there is not a single board in a piece that doesn't have serious kino in it. The customer like the kino - lots of it too. The furniture manufacturers spent a fortune on oxide filled epoxy filling the voids but that's the way the customers like it.

Here is the link in case you can't drive the system.
marri furniture - Google Search

I have seem much uglier logs that gtrmoshs turned into furniture that sells at the $5 - $10k per piece. I guess they have to recover the cost of all that epoxy )

Hi all,

I'd like to say I recovered an abundance of useable timber from this log, sadly however this was not the case.
I did however get one good slab 1200 wide, but had to cut length down to 2.2m to take out some problem areas.
Also by working around the major faults I was able to recover a reasonable amount of bits and pieces of various sizes. All for furniture use, just like Bob explains, the furniture is attractive and in high demand faults and all.
That said I did have a good sized burning pile.
I mill for enjoyment, ( I have to admit I am also becoming a chainsaw and sawdust junkie ) and for the fact I have an abundance of material at my disposal that would otherwise be turned to ash.

Cheers
Mosh

Originally Posted by gtrmosh

Hi all,

I'd like to say I recovered an abundance of useable timber from this log, sadly however this was not the case.
I did however get one good slab 1200 wide, but had to cut length down to 2.2m to take out some problem areas.
Also by working around the major faults I was able to recover a reasonable amount of bits and pieces of various sizes. All for furniture use, just like Bob explains, the furniture is attractive and in high demand faults and all.
That said I did have a good sized burning pile.
I mill for enjoyment, ( I have to admit I am also becoming a chainsaw and sawdust junkie ) and for the fact I have an abundance of material at my disposal that would otherwise be turned to ash.

Cheers
Mosh

Sorry to hear that you didn't get much out of it,would have been a challenge to mill.I milled a few Blue Gum last month,the grain separation was that bad,only recovered a few narrow boards out of them,so it happens to the best of us.And yes,as Bob advised,had a look at a few images of Marri on the net,the curly grained stuff looked very nice indeed! Not one for gum veins though,however,other folk love it.Thanks for your honest reply mosh,and keep enjoying making sawdust

The log in question here was a bit on the Elvis *(all shook up) however thats how punters like marri furniture, with heaps of keno in it. The thing to look for in marri logs is that they have plenty of bridging veins through the heavy gum veins, that enables them to hold together