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23rd August 2012, 09:28 PM #1Member
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Hardwood sleepers for furniture???
Hi all,
Just a general question for you all on the suitability of the 200x50x2400 hardwood sleepers you cn get get from timber merchants for around $20 each. Basically I was wanting to know if there is any point in exploring their use as a cabinet timber. From what I can tell they just seem to be green hardwood ( some type of eucalypt). Now if you were to resaw them into 25mm planks and then sticker and dry them for a year would you get the equivalent of a common grade dried board or is this timber just not going to cut it.
As timber isn't exactly cheap in Sydney I thought it would be worth asking the question.
Cheers
David
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23rd August 2012, 10:02 PM #2
Sounds like treated hardwood if it is green, no good for furniture
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23rd August 2012, 10:31 PM #3
There is in town (Tamworth) a hardwood miller who sends most of what he mills to Sydney to be sold in to the landscaping trade. It could be some of his. If it is he is cutting hard woods (mainly stringy bark he gets from private land owners) that are probably not furniture grade but would resaw OK and drying? well expect a large % to bend and twist itself into firewood. You could probably recover some quite usable lengths but you will have a lot of rejects. The main reason is the timber is "young", the trees are only about 400mm diameter so they may only be 30 years old and quite "sappy", which equates to a lot of movement while drying. The logs are not usually number one quality, that's why they go to the landscapers.
If you do go down the seasoning path, I think I would sticker them as is, and see what they look like in 12 months. If you were to cut them down to smaller thicknessses I think they would really bend all over the place
Well that's my 2 bobs' worth
PS Should you decide to give them a go, select from whats offering only straight grained planks, especially steering away from any knots and defects like gum lines,Just do it!
Kind regards Rod
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24th August 2012, 08:28 AM #4Member
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Just to clarify Dai Sensei. By green I actually meant unseasoned or wet. The label does specify that the wood is untreated.
As for the warping comments is there any way to reduce this as I thought warping was normally due to uneven or rapid drying as occurs in kilns.
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