Log slices

**ojame** · 15th May 2015, 08:46 PM

Not sure if this is the right place to post (thought about it for 10 mins!), so apologies.

I'm based in Melbourne, Victoria and I'm looking for some log slices. Not sure if that's the right terminology, but they look like this. I've looked online and haven't found much (apart from stuff in the USA). They're to serve pizzas off on our wedding night. Chasing someone that has a stock of about 22 slices. Not fussed at all on the species, as long as it's okay to eat off of (we won't coat them). Dimensions roughly an inch thick, with a diameter of 350mm, roughly. Happy with different variety and different sizes (roughly the same size though). Needs to be dry and ready to use (wedding is only 3 weeks away!).

Does anyone know where I can go to source these? Happy to travel a bit, or order online etc.

Thanks, as always!

**BobL** · 15th May 2015, 08:57 PM

This shape (in the American timber trade they are called cookies) is very tricky (some say impossible) to obtain with Aussie trees without any splits in them .
Even when are cut from a dry unsplit log there is a chance they will still spilt.

If you get someone to cut them up and sand them, to get 22 cookies without a split they might need to cut ~100 because who knows how many will split either today or tomorrow.

The ones on that picture have been cut from a slow growing North American or European Species that are more suited to cookie making.

To increase the rate of getting whole/unsplit cookies out of Australian woods is a labor of love.
It requires they be dried out under mud or water for about 12 months and then dried slowly and even then the loss rate is high.

**dai sensei** · 16th May 2015, 10:04 AM

Terry at Tex Timbers cuts heaps for weddings and does post, send him an email [email protected] or ring on (02) 6665 3243

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