Thread: Tulip Wood - worth slicing?

Anything is worth a look. Just cut it into logs with a chain saw and then at least split the logs down the middle to relieve the stress and seal the ends to prevent end checking. You don't really know what the colour will be until you have a surface to look at. Then you can take a small sample piece and microwave it down to nearly dry and finish it and see what you think.

I'd be happy to mill on my bandsaw for you but no idea where Nantes is, a quick search says France but I think you're in Australia.

Thanks Dj,

I must update my location. I'm in Brissie, so still a wee hike with a log

I'm glad to hear it's worth a look, i've got a bunch of little projects that it would be perfect for.

Cheers
Matt

Matt

I may be able to help depending on what you want out of the timber. The tree is small so if you go with some billets I may be able to cut them for you by taking them with me to NSW when I go, but that won't be until the end of July. You may recall from our discussions that the bandsaw mill is down there That's the negative side, but on the positive side I will probably be coming to Brissy during the intervening period so I could collect them if it suits you.

Of course you would probably never see me or your timber ever again .

Let me know if it is of interest by PM and I will send you a tel no. or you may still have it from the Brissy show.

I don't know anthing about tulip wood and a cursory search in my reference books has revealed zip. Looks like a bit of internet work is required. Don't cut them to length before speaking to whoever you envisage cutting them for you, because too small can be an issue.

Having said that, if they are really small, somebody with a small workshop style bandsaw may be able to cut them for you.

Regards
Paul

What do you intend making from it?

It rots and spalts very quickly, but I like it like that for turning.

Hi Dai Sensei,
I don't know what the tree will yield but I'm a handtool guy so I was thinking saw handles, marking gauge parts and plane bodies, that sort of thing. If there's anything big enough for draw fronts or box parts or that would be nice too but I'm not planning a boat

Do you have any photos of the timber because I haven't seen many images? I thought it was a quite dark timber, how does the spalting show itself?

Cheers
Matt

There are some pics of beautiful pens in tulipwood on the forum. Looks like a goer.

PM sent, Paul

The Tulip Wood we get here is different to the stuff from overseas usually found in the pen blanks. The stuff I used was a yellowish cream, not dark, I'll see if I can get a photo of a ball I turned a whole back.

Yellowish-cream? I'm in no way experienced enough to second guess you, only the two sources I've read say 'heavy, dark and durable timber'.

Was it perhaps Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum)? They have a similar bark if you only had a trunk to go on.

Cheers
Matt

This is a link to a great DPI NSW publication about rainforest trees, tulip wood is on page 59.

Forgive the mega URL

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&so...pD4qU9pNmaKv9w

Common names

There are a few:

Akania lucens	Tulipwood (10)
Drypetes acuminata	Yellow Tulipwood (13)
Drypetes australasica	Yelow Tulipwood (10)
Drypetes deplanchei	Yellow Tulipwood (13)
Drypetes lasiogyna	Yellow Tulipwood (10)
Harpullia pendula	Black Tulipwood (13)
Harpullia pendula	Queensland Tulipwood (13)
Harpullia pendula	TULIPWOOD (13)
Harpullia pendula	Black Tulipwood (10)
Harpullia pendula	Queensland Tulipwood (10)
Harpullia pendula	Tulipwood (1)
Harpullia ramiflora	Cape York Tulipwood (13)
Harpullia ramiflora	Claudie Tulipwood (13)
Harpullia ramiflora	Tulipwood, Cape York (13)
Owenia venosa	Tulipwood (10)
Harpullia pendula	Tulipwood (14)

Sorry I didn't notice you had said yours was the Harpullia pendula, which is the Black Tulipwood. What I have is probably the yellow Tulipwood

Cheers

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Common names

Never was a truer typed

I am just getting into the habit of trying to identify trees that I come across and I can see now just how common the common names are! How many bloody things are called Ash that look nothing like each other and certainly not like Fraxinus excelsior.

Matt

Originally Posted by Berlin

Never was a truer typed

I am just getting into the habit of trying to identify trees that I come across and I can see now just how common the common names are! How many bloody things are called Ash that look nothing like each other and certainly not like Fraxinus excelsior.

Matt

Matt

As you can see Neil is pretty good at digging up all the common names. I'v seen him do it for Black Wattle and Dead Finish too I think.

Regards
Paul