Thread: Blue gum grinders?

dosent seam dark enough for blue, could be flooded.

Would Flooded have held up so well in the drying process?

No matter. Beautiful grain and great grinders.

Dring the seasoning process,there was very little collapse.Bark was silver/blue,and quite thick at the base of the tree.Also,the entire tree was very highly figured.

Could be blue. I've just cut a small log of blue that was no darker than that. Just on the subject of flooded gum; it will dry ok if it's small section and well stickered and strapped, although for mine it still collapses too much.

From the bark description it could be Blue or even Grey.

The figure is quite intense,does this factor narrow the possibilities?All the sawn timber has seasoned out fairly honestly,with very little twisting,or shrinkage(radial or tangential) Will post photos tomorrow.Cheers

might be a young blue.

i have some slab here that look just like that (only no sap wood) its putty ironbark.

Its not true wood from sydney blue gum, flooded gum or forest red gum unless its sapwood from those species. Young Flooded gum is at least a light pink colour right up to a moderate red in some mature trees, Some sydney blue gum goes from a moderate red to a deep red colour. The reason its hard to distinguish between the two at the moderate red colour just by looking. They are not blonde timbers like the pics.
regards inter

blond?

what pics are you looking at?

The ones with the red velvet background, where the timber is neither red or pink. With that wavy grain it could be blackbutt. (blonde)
regards inter

Will post pics of sawn timber tomorrow.Colour of grinders are caramel/blonde,with a heavy figure,though undressed the wood appears almost red/dark brown.The butt log was about 800mm d.b.h,but only a few metres long,however,it was figured all the way(head included).Still have a few bits of head log to mill,and after sitting out in the weather for over a year still hasn;t cracked.Certainly one of the most figurative hardwoods i have come across.

Originally Posted by MAPLEMAN

after sitting out in the weather for over a year still hasn;t cracked.

Definitely not blackbutt or flooded gum then.

This is timber rough sawn,has a pinkish/red colour which it seems to lose once it is dressed.

This sample looks very much like a piece in my shed .
The piece I have was given to me by a sawmiller at Woolgolga he called it Maidens' Blush. It is a north coast hardwood very similar to Flooded Gum.
Rowlry.