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Thread: Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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26th May 2013, 05:01 PM #1
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
Hi there,
My mum is taking out some Tulip Woods (Harpullia pendula) one is too small for anything but one looks just hearty enough to get some pieces from.
It's 85cm around at chest height but it's quite oval in section so in one orientation it's more than a foot in diameter.
I want as much as I can get but any would be nice. Is it worth troubling someone with a bandsaw mill to slice it up?
Cheers
Matt
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1369548065.471434.jpg...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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26th May 2013, 06:34 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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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.
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26th May 2013, 06:55 PM #3
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.
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26th May 2013, 07:40 PM #4
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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26th May 2013, 09:08 PM #5
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.
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PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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26th May 2013, 09:11 PM #6
What do you intend making from it?
It rots and spalts very quickly, but I like it like that for turning.Neil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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26th May 2013, 11:24 PM #7
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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27th May 2013, 12:09 AM #8GOLD MEMBER
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There are some pics of beautiful pens in tulipwood on the forum. Looks like a goer.
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27th May 2013, 09:02 AM #9
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PM sent, Paul
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27th May 2013, 11:48 PM #10
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.
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28th May 2013, 12:39 PM #11
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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28th May 2013, 12:49 PM #12
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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28th May 2013, 05:58 PM #13
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
CheersNeil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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28th May 2013, 09:54 PM #14
Tulip Wood - worth slicing?
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...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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28th May 2013, 11:32 PM #15
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