Thread: Brains Trust - Help Id my NEW wood please

Hello and welcome..

I will have a guess at Spotted Gum..

Heres something I made from Spotted gum

Matrix

Thanks for your help. I like the look of the table and agree that the timber I have stumbled across has a very similiar look / texture / colour as the photos you were kind enough to attach.

Cheers

GT

yes looks like spotted gum, if not its in that variety of timbers, blackbutt, brushbox, tallowwood, coachwood etc

Thanks Reeves

Appreciate you taking the time to help me ID the species. Is spotted gum or (blackbutt, brushbox, tallowwood, coachwood ) OK for use in the construction of outdoor furniture ?

yes, they would be popular timbers for such uses

Pic one and three look a lot like the blackbutt that I used on my boys bed rails. Hard and heavy wood but not near as dense as the blue gum and brushbox that I am currently re-sawing .

Corbs

Brush box is high in silica and that's what blunts your tools fast On a shallow bowl of about 10" diam I was having to freshen the edge after every full pass.

I'll say blackbutt

What you have there young fella is good old growth Sydney bluegum (e. Sal)
endgrain, and surface checks are a dead giveaway, the colour will refresh with assistance of planing or sanding.

Thanks to everyone for their assistance in giving my new wood a name.

In my own mind, I am now going to think of the timber has "Sydney Blue Gum" based on the fact that Bruce's email seems so definitive with references to "endgrain, and surface checks " whatever they are.

Off today to Carabatec to get myself a new metal detector before pressing my new Ryobi Thicknesser into action.

Thanks again,

Glen T

Hi gthome,
I can id the wood for you send me a piece. If it is spotted gum that would be corymbia maculata. Picture you have is good but it is not posible to tell without further examination.
Please conact me [email protected]
Best regards.
kyw_ilic

Originally Posted by gthome

The collective brains trust.

I have recently begun making some novice quality furniture. A copy of my first and only project is attached. I had heaps of funning making it and now plan to make so more. However, I have been shocked at how expensive DAR TAS Oak / all Hardwood is and would prefer not to use Pine.

To this end, I have recently sniffed out 75 lengths of 3000 * 40 * 70 of very dense hardwood. I am lead to believe from the previous owner that it is approx 60 years and was used in the internal roof of an old factory. The guy that I got it from thinks it came from the North Coast of NSW.

The wood itself has a slightly orange / red / brown tinge and is very dense. In fact, the cheap circular saw that I own which easily cuts TAS Oak started to whine at me when pressed into action. I have attached some poor quality photos and would be grateful if any of the learned brains trust COULD HAVE A GUESS AT THE SPECIES.

PS. I plan to make a workbench, small book shelf and if I have enough left, a small out door garden setting. If anyone knows the species, I would be grateful to know if in their view the wood would be suitable for outdoor use.

PPS. I have been enjoying this site over the past 18 mths or so and have been surprised at the collective bagging of Bunning’s. I have one up the road and find it convenient as it is always open, has virtually everything I need and is reasonably priced. I for one would miss if it was gone.<O</O

Originally Posted by E. maculata

What you have there young fella is good old growth Sydney bluegum (e. Sal)
endgrain, and surface checks are a dead giveaway, the colour will refresh with assistance of planing or sanding.

Bloody Hell.
Bruce got one right for a change .

yep. Blue Gum. E.Saligna.

See this stuff all the time. God I hate Hardwood.

Hugo. Mate, Spotted gum has been and always will be E. Maculata.
C. Maculata is a bastardisation started by the banana benders and carried forward by uncle Richard and his cronies at the CSIRO.

I have tuned Red at QDPI&F on this as well.