Thread: African blackwood and african olive wood

Solaris:
You have left off the information considered by many to be quite important (including me). What does the timber cost? Are you selling it at a cubic metre rate? I'm interested... Regards.

hi

sorry about that.

the Pricing is as follows

BLACKWOOD

For Pen Blanks - 25mm x 25mm x 300mm - $10 plus postage

For all other sizes - priced at $12,000 per cubic metre

ie 100mm x 100mm x 1000mm - $120 plus postage (this is fairly heavy)
ie 100mm x 50mm x 1000mm - $60 plus postage etc

Almost all the larger pieces have no sapwood on them and are pure heartwood.

OLIVE WOOD

Pen Blanks - 25mm x 25mm x 300mm - $7 plus postage

For all other sizes - priced at $8,000 per cubic metre

ie 100mm x 100mm x 500mm - $40 plus postage

Hope this clarifies the pricing.

cheers
Jeelan

Look, I may be wrong here and feel free to ignore me, but if you mean $10 for a single blank, people are selling similar blanks for $11 for 5...

http://www.cws.au.com/cgi/index.cgi/..._id=1107369768

Just trying to be helpful.

Cheers

Cam

Originally Posted by CameronPotter

Look, I may be wrong here and feel free to ignore me, but if you mean $10 for a single blank, people are selling similar blanks for $11 for 5...

http://www.cws.au.com/cgi/index.cgi/..._id=1107369768

Just trying to be helpful.

Cheers

Cam

that is what i thought at first but look closer, 300mm long, thats enough for 2 pens and a letter opener, still a bit pricy but not as much as you made it out to be

also, they are a lot thicker, the ones you mentioned will be about 13/14mm these one are 25mm

cheers

hi Cam

thanks for that.

I see where you've coming from, however pls understand that the
Blackwood is a different ball game all together.

First, because it is by its very nature a very gnarly type of growth, its very hard to extract suitable pieces for commercial use that are of any decent length. For reasonable uses you are only really salvaging about 20-30% of the wood.

if memory serves, its current commercial value stands at about US$16K per cubic metre for processed pieces.

If you want more info on its uses and standing, you can visit

http://www.blackwoodconservation.org/tree.html

or

http://www.farmforestline.com.au/pages/5.2.2_some.html

Hope this clarifies things.

cheers
Jeelan

Hi

Looking at some of the pics it looks like they might include the pith (center) of the tree. Can you tell me if they do and what's the cracking like on the 100x100 blackwood.

Originally Posted by Toolin Around

Hi

Looking at some of the pics it looks like they might include the pith (center) of the tree. Can you tell me if they do and what's the cracking like on the 100x100 blackwood.

Some do include the centre of the tree, however from what i can tell, on these, most of the cracking runs on the outside face of the blocks and about a 10-15mm in on one face or so.

about two thirds of the larger blocks are fine though.

For the blocks that have cracked, i'll resize them as i've recieved some requests for thinner pieces of the same height (100m) for box making etc.

i'll post some detailed pics shortly of a few larger blocks.

cheers

Solaris,

I wasn't talking about the big stuff (as I am not qualified to do so - I wouldn't have a clue what prices they should be).

However, I just wanted to point out the pen sized ones seem dear, mind you, as Stirlo points out, you blocks are quite a bit larger than your normal pen blank too!

Could probably cut 8 blanks from a single piece.

hi all

as promised, here are some more pics. Hope fully these will address some of the questions that hv been raised earlier.






The following pics are of resized panels of approx 15mm x 100mm x 300mm - i ripped these because of requests for such panels for boxmaking etc.




Most of the pieces below the 100 x 100 size are squared ie 75 x 75, 50 x 50 and 25 x 25.

I also have several smaller pieces that have both the heartwood and sapwood together on them.




Cheers
Jeelan

I'll take a semi load.
Oh, this stuff does make good firewood, doesn't it?

believe it or not it actually DOES make awesome firewood....when i was young and stupid i burnt a few logs over the course of a winter and boy did it burn well!!! very oily though

cheers
Jeelan

Do you allow local pick up? And heres a question not being any good at math if say I wanted one of those 4x4s of Blackwood plus 1 4x4 of the Olive wood say a metre long what would I be lookin at price wise... I will pick up (on my way through to me ol mate Scottyk's place )

WOW!! Just read that link... interesting timber for sure... mmm wonder if it would be any good in a boat?

hi Wild Dingo

100mm x 100mm x 1m blackwood - $120

100 x 100 x 1m olive - $80

No probs regarding pickup.

PM me or shoot me an email on [email protected] to organise a time if you want see first.

cheers
Jeelan

No worries Jeelan will do... mmm may just have to pick up a couple of sixpacks too eh?? Never had Tuskers or Sarengti beer