Thread: red stringy from tree to furniture pics

Nice , that has to give you some satisfaction from milling to making furniture from it. There's something more from starting with rough sawn stock than dressed I reckon.

Natural Edge, they look like terrific sticks of timber, great feature in them

Mind you its got me jiggered, doesn't look anything like the 'red stringy' we get up here...







Might be a common name thing in different areas, but the 'red stringy' I've cut up here is a deep warm red colour, deeper than bluegum and good even close grain too.

Still bloody nice work taking it from tree to bed - probably the closest I'd get to having Bo Derek sleep in our bedroom

very different than the normal stringy the pics last pics in my kiln are the norm for red stringy

Lovely timber and great furniture.

natural how long did it all take? it's a lot darker than our red stringy

1 day to mill 18 month air drying one of the forum members brought half the timber about 3 months ago

Good on you Natural Edge

Very nice!!

Yes Allan, what we in Queensland call red stringybark is Eucalyptus resinifera or Red Mahogany and not Eucalyptus macrorhyncha which is the real red stringybark and is a southern species. But my father is 85 yo and he calls it red stringy, you call it red stringy and today I milled two logs of red stringy but we are Queenslanders and probablaly the laziest people on earth so we we don't use a four syllable word when a
two syllable word will suffice and I'm sure our red stringy is better than the real red stringy anyway. While I'm on the subject our Yellow Stringy is actually White Mahogany, Eucalyptus acmenioides and its better than the real one too.

Originally Posted by THE BARON

Yes Allan, what we in Queensland call red stringybark is Eucalyptus resinifera or Red Mahogany and not Eucalyptus macrorhyncha which is the real red stringybark and is a southern species. But my father is 85 yo and he calls it red stringy, you call it red stringy and today I milled two logs of red stringy but we are Queenslanders and probablaly the laziest people on earth so we we don't use a four syllable word when a
two syllable word will suffice and I'm sure our red stringy is better than the real red stringy anyway. While I'm on the subject our Yellow Stringy is actually White Mahogany, Eucalyptus acmenioides and its better than the real one too.

Good onya Baron

I knew about the whole white mahogany thing and red mahogany thing - I hear what you're saying though - stringy is easier to say Admittedly when I sold a heap of feedstock to a sawmill I told them it was white mahogany