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Thread: Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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30th May 2013, 06:37 AM #16
Matt
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30th May 2013, 10:56 AM #17
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3rd June 2013, 12:33 AM #18Neil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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3rd June 2013, 09:51 AM #19
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
Well if it's got a bit of that figure hopefully I can find some good bits for tools.
...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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8th June 2013, 09:40 PM #20
Well,
A huge thanks to Bushmiller who turned up on Friday, did a Clark Kent-esque change from mild mannered gent to boiler suited chainsaw wielder and we got some likely bits of the log onto the tray of his ute in a snap, and then he hauled them off to meet their fate.
I will have to have a look at your list Neil and see if I can work out whether my tree was any of the others on your list because when Paul cut it in half (Mum had dutifully painted the cut ends) the wood was indeed yellow!.. Just as you said it would be. My father insists it was a Tulipwood so it may well be the same species as yours. In any case it will be interesting to see if there's anything of interest hiding in there for Paul to ferret out.
Cheers
Matt...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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9th June 2013, 07:05 PM #21
Matt
I'll have to pass on to SWMBO the superhero thing. I can just see her first question "And just what aspect do you imagine is super? " .
Anyhow here are some pix. The log was cut in half at about 1500mm for convenience of handling. It is quite heavy. Also I took away a couple of Spotted Gums to see what can be salvaged from them. They had been dead for many years and all the sap wood has come off them.
As Matt is primarily looking for timbers to make hand tools and perhaps some box size boards I'm hopeful we will salvage something. They will have to wait until the end of July before I get back to the mill. So I gave the TW a coat of paint where we cut it in half and the Spottys got some paint too.
Tulip Wood 005.jpgTulip Wood 004.jpgTulip Wood 002.jpgTulip Wood 001.jpg
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PaulLast edited by Bushmiller; 10th June 2013 at 12:38 PM. Reason: typos
Bushmiller;
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8th August 2013, 03:34 PM #22
The cutting
I have to say I was sceptical that these small logs would yield anything worthwhile, but Matt was philosophical and just hoped for a few useable pieces.
Firstly the timber was as blonde as anything I have ever cut and secondly it cut like butter despite being quite a dense timber. This is what came of the the two tulip logs:
tulip 002.jpgtulip 001.jpgtulip 008.jpgtulip 003.jpgtulip 004.jpgtulip 005.jpgtulip 006.jpgtulip 007.jpgmisc T 002.jpgmisc T 005.jpgmisc T 004.jpg
So not a huge quantity of timber, but enough for some box making material and perhaps some handtools like small planes and saw handles.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I called in on Trent Powrie of Harold and Saxon on the way home and he was intrigued by the Tulip Wood as like me he had never heard of it before. We grabbed a small offcut and he planed it up with a No 7 Stanley equipped with one of his blades. Despite being green, only seven days off the saw, it dressed silky smooth. There seemed to be a rather nice grain too' although very subtle.
Tulip planned 002.jpgTulip planned 001.jpg
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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9th August 2013, 09:05 AM #23
Wow! Not at all what I pictured but beautiful! I do indeed have a bunch of small boxes (trays really) for my tool chest that will look much nicer in Harpullia than ply and I'm lining up a few saws and other littel tools too, so that stack should do very nicely.
All hail Bushmiller!
Cheers
Matt...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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