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16th August 2010, 12:05 AM #16
Post all entries here to this thread and lets just say under 500 words (seems hard to get poetry outa you blokes) but I want to hear about you and your passion for timber like this and exactly what it can be in your eyes, dont be scared....best entry at end of month gets it....
Mate it is dry as....
Matt
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16th August 2010, 12:13 AM #17
Depending on the project I can throw in a few extra bits to see it complete.... Bevan yours is very nice start cant wait to hear more. A bit of white bait could be included with the slab to venear for a contrast hmmm
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16th August 2010, 01:09 AM #18
Nice offer! Kudos to you for making it!
That'd make a beautiful bowl, using a simple form to let the grain speak for itself.
Not that I'm tendering a bid, mind you. Woodturning is too "lossy" and I'm sure others would be able to make more... efficient use of it.
Still, it's nice to think about.
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16th August 2010, 01:28 AM #19Banned
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Yep , with a good set of coring tools that would make a great nest of bowls
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17th August 2010, 07:55 AM #20
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26th August 2010, 07:43 PM #21
Surprised I am!!!
Well here we are on the 26th of the month and no-one has come up with a proposal.
I would have thought that such a magnanimious offer would have had more takers!!!
Cheers
BevanThere ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
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26th August 2010, 08:24 PM #22
I wish I had a bandsaw . I'd use the wood to make a traditional leather skived writing box with a set of matching pens, and maybe some pen boxes like Dave Lim's.
Unfortunately I can only resaw using a Triton WS or a good old fashioned ripsaw, so the wastage would be unacceptable.
I visited NZ back in '99 and was fascinated by the kauri industry. I visited the Kauri Museum, the Kauri gallery that was showcased in AWR a few years ago, even went to the Waipoua Kauri Forest and saw Tane Mahuta. In the Kauri museum they have a piece of kauri that is still recognisable as being a piece of wood, despite the fact that it's about 5 million years old and stuck in the middle of a coal seam! Swamp kauri has a beautiful grain even without the figure shown by your piece.
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27th August 2010, 08:39 PM #23New Member
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A rough idea of what i'd do with the timber:
I'd get a couple of platters out of that timber.
Around the edges I'd inlay 2 concentric stone inlays using one of these combos calcite and malachite, tigers eye and malachite or calcite and lapis lazuli depending on what the grain looks like in person and the colour once polished. Possibly have an inlay at the very centre.
Finish it down to about 1000-1200 grit, cut with Triple E and Shellawax Polish.
@ Skew Chidamn: Turnings only wasteful if you make it wasteful. When I'm done with that I'd use any offcuts to make some knife handles or small containers etc.
Amazing piece of timber which would make some amazing turned pieces.
Cheers,
Jarrod
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28th August 2010, 06:14 PM #24GOLD MEMBER
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Where are the instrument makers ? This block has the makings of half a dozen fantastic violins, maybe guitars, maybe a cello or two. What about an ANZAC acoustic guitar with the ancient kauri soundboard and back, blackwood sides, NZ black myrtle neck and gidgee fingerboard... huon pine bridge, whalebone nut, paua shell or jade inlay... Come on fellas get a bit stirred up this really is a once in a lifetime offer.
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28th August 2010, 06:25 PM #25Banned
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28th August 2010, 07:12 PM #26GOLD MEMBER
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Um dunno what its real name is but we walked under masses of them on the shore of lake Rotoiti on the south island. The leaf and the shape look just like tasmanian pink myrtle and an information post called them black myrtle. The bark is a sooty black from a mould that grows on them. To be honest I was just dying to slice a bit of it up but I didn't get to see any of it as timber.
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28th August 2010, 10:52 PM #28New Member
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A pink myrtle
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28th August 2010, 10:59 PM #29
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29th August 2010, 01:10 PM #30
It is a great generous offer Matt
I'd love to have a go at such a beautiful hunk of timber, but I would need to see and feel it, then perhaps think about it for a few years before deciding what to do with it . Even then, it may take years to finish it, to give the timber its due.
My first thought was a rocking chair, one of Rocker's design, but I have Osage Orange sliced up in the shed still waiting after 2 years to become a rocking chair. I also have some logs of Blackwood waiting for the same fate that has been there for 4 years
Can't wait to see what someone does with it.
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