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22nd November 2003, 11:52 PM #1Member
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Picking Jarrah from a Jarrah and Karri rack
Much to my delight, my local Salvage yard has a constant supply of 8x2 Jarrah and Karri boards but I find it difficult to pick Jarrah. All boards are rough sawn but fairly clean.
I've heard a few techniques like:
1) snap a very small piece of jarrah in your fingers and it will snap clean. Karri being a longer type grain will not snap easy or will snap but not seperate.
2) Burn Jarrah and get white ash, Burn Karri and get black ash. Starting a fire in a wood yard doesn't go down that well !!!
None of tese techniques are easy to do or fool proof.
Any Ideas.
Regards
Greg
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23rd November 2003, 01:24 AM #2
Drive a splinter of each into different fingers. The Jarrah splinter will cause pain, the Karri splinter will cause the finger to drop off.
Place a piece of each in the ground. The white ants will go to the Karri.
Does that help?
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23rd November 2003, 12:47 PM #3
From my experience burning is the only way.
All you need is a fine splinter of the wood and a match light the splinter and it will be very quickly obvious which wood it is.
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23rd November 2003, 10:05 PM #4Senior Member
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So which does what when burnt????
Pete J
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7th December 2003, 03:24 PM #5
Hi..............burning a small splinter is still the best method but contrary to what gmcginty said, you will find that it is Karri that burns to white ash and Jarrah will burn to a black ash.
You don't need more than a small shaving from the edge of the 4x2 etc with a knife and a box of matches. Not much chance of burning down the woodyard with this method
Macca
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7th December 2003, 11:52 PM #6New Member
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where do buy the jarrah and how much is it?
Always looking for timber in Perth, where do you buy your timber.