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    Default Native daphne, sweet pittosporum, mock orange, native laurel

    Hi all

    I got offered a Pittosporum undulatum tree to potentially mill up. Logs would be ~350mm round by 1m long (x2) without much taper. I make small projects. So my question is "Would I be wasting my time with this species to mill and dry?" Does it dry well? Is it a species ever used for timbers? Is it poisonous, or an irritant? etc

    Thanks for any advice you might have

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    CRaatz

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    While P. undulatum is a pretty common tree round here (I've got one in my yard), I've never used any of its wood. I would grab it out of interest, myself - free wood is good wood in my view, & most turn out to have a use sometime down the track, even if it's only to warm you for a while.

    Here's what Morris Lake has to say (paraphrased): "..heartwood cream to pale yellow, sapwood not clearly defined, texture fine & even, hard & tough. A.D.D. 865kg/cubic M. Popular carving wood, used for artificial limbs, kitchen utensils, turning & marquetry. It has also been used for golf & croquet mallet heads."

    Covers a fair range......

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    Grows on our area to plague proportion. I have square milled some of the bigger trunks for carvers and wood turners. They both seem to like it.
    Air dries easily, not prone to splitting and keeps it's shape.

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    Well it looks like i'll be making kitchen utensils next year sometime.

    thanks for your replies much appreciated

    CRaatz

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    One of my favourites from trees I've milled myself (not that I'm a "miller" of wood!)

    Colours are very nice, the ones I milled had excellent patterning, sands smooth and dries hard. I had some which split while drying, but these were the smaller bits.

    It makes EXCELLENT clubs.

    If there is ever a zombie apocalypse and one needs a ready supply of shillelaghs and bashers, this would be a good choice

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