Thread: Lost slabs found

A couple of months back my brother asked me if I had any longish slabs that he could use the timber from to make some kitchen bench tops for his house reno. We visited the tree loppers yard where I mill/store slabs and found some grey weathered slabs that were about 3.6m long and I said I thought they were Rose gum and he took away two of them to have them processed and this is what they ended up looking like.

So not rose gum but Silky Oak! This is one half od the kitchen bench.
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I milled 3 silky oak logs in 2010 and I know one log was eaten out by termites and the other two logs disappeared. I thought they might have got mixed up with slabs that had been sent out for use as park playground timber or maybe were nicked. Anyway a slab of it mysteriously turned up a few few weeks ago under a pile of Himalayan cedar slabs and now it looks I have found the rest.