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Thread: South American red cedar?
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27th May 2005, 07:28 PM #1
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South American red cedar?
Some years ago a retired timber merchant gave me a piece of rough sawn hardwood furniture timber (3.6mx300mmx50mm), which he said when finished would closely resemble Aus cedar. Unfortunately I have lost contact with the chap and can't recall the name. He said it was a South American rainforest species. I have yet to put it to the saw, so to speak, so can't provide any photos yet. Any ideas?
Cheers, Micro
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29th May 2005, 12:56 AM #2
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More likely to be a SE Asian timber called Kalantas (Toona Kalantas) the closest timber to Aust Cedar and a real pleasure to work.
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2nd June 2005, 01:28 PM #3
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Yes, sometimes passed off as the real thing.
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Cheers, Ern
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2nd June 2005, 02:40 PM #4
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Well, it IS the 'real thing' in a manner of speaking. Some of it (the imported stuff) can be ok, and some of it like cotton wool. And I've had a few bits that were crisp, and worked ok, but the grain structure was different (more coarse) and it rejected every type of finish known to man. Originally Posted by rsser
I'm not passionately fond of any of it, meself - too damn soft, but the 'customers' like it! Some of the very old trees from the Atherton Tableland where I hail from (way, way back), had much harder wood and was better to work with.
Now good NQ Maple, THAT's a wood to get passionate about......
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8th June 2005, 06:37 PM #5
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Yes, thank you all, kalantas sounds like what I have. I started processing it last weekend (jointer then thicknesser then saw) and am having some problems with tearing out on the jointer/thicknesser.90%of the 2mx100x50 piece I am working with comes out fine. In fact I am quite impressed with the finish except at both ends where the grain turns up to the surface it tears out, i.e. whichever way I try it ends up I'm planing against the grain! Does this mean I have to finish with a hand plane for part of the length or is there likely to be something fundamental which I doing wrong?
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9th June 2005, 09:15 AM #6
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Micro, there are worse things in life. Originally Posted by microcorys
Planing this stuff does demand a very sharp blade for good results (and going with the grain). Scraping is a dead loss on cedar, too soft.
Sometimes you just have to accept reality and blugeon the mongrel stuff into submission with a few grades of paper. :eek:
It sands well (but use a good-sized block to keep tings flat if hand-sanding) .............
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