Thread: Good looking wood

um er......very nice wood??
nice stuff for sure
sorry
Pete

It almost looks like Banksia.

I'm with , the last pic sure looks like Banksia.
Cheers
Barry

Originally Posted by glenn k

I'm a bit short of work at the moment.......

Glenn,
if the economy really goes down hill rapidly and work is not forthcoming you might want to think about heading north for a while. Stuff grows so quickly around here that there are teams of contractors doing work for Ergon doing "vegetation management". Somebody with your arborist/climbing skills would get work easily. Bring your Lucas mill with you!

Mick

Glenn,
What do you do for a living, ive been quiet past month and im doing handyman, carpentry and cabinet making. In my last job we were always quiet in December, January coz of the holidays and June, July coz its tax time.

Originally Posted by Baz

I'm with , the last pic sure looks like Banksia.
Cheers
Barry

It does look like Banksia but more like a timber I have on my computer desk, which is a Northern Hemisphere spruce/birch pine stuff (really don't know for sure). In fact the third board down looks identical except mine was full of worm holes. Was it significantly heavier than a pine and what was the bark like? that will tell you if its banksia. Bloody good log if it is the Big Bad Banksia Man.

Cheers

Glen K,
Never mind the rest man. It's good to see someone who really knows how to make a decent pile of sawdust!!!! Love the wood too.

Cheers

Munchkin

and Baz you got the family right but it is actually Grevillea robusta (Silky Oak) the bits in the pic were full quarter sawn. This log was a little darker than your average Grev robusta though. The bloke who owned it had driven bits of ½” copper pipe into the trunk trying to kill it a few years back. I was thinking that this may have made the wood darker. I’m glad that the copper nail thing is an old wife’s tale; it would have been a hard tree to cut down if it was dead for a few years.

Squizzy spruce/birch pine stuff :confused: :confused: spruce and pine can be similar but birch is a hard wood with little contrast.

Mick I don’t think the wife and kids would like me going north. I got a job for next week dropping a few cypresses amoungst other things and there are a few good logs so I may make a sauna for the back yard. Was thinking of Swiss style with horizontal planks crossing on the corners.

Some bastard came and cut up 3 other Grev logs for firewood last weekend and a Paulownia log. This was my first decent Paulownia log ever about 2' diameter 10' long what useless firewood that would be.

Guy a lot of people I have talked to in various industries are quite at the moment. If my work doesn't pick up in the next month or two I may have to advertise. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Glenn, do and I get a slab for picking the right family (Proteaceae)? Yes very dark for Silky Oak, interesting if the copper pipe caused that.
Cheers
Barry