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7th July 2020, 04:48 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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I have a timber story you will all like
Just while I'm here in another forum, I thought I would post this.
I was in my shed a few months ago and needed a small piece of light colored timber. I walked down the street to Anagote and looked through their offcuts pile and got some huon pine.
While I was cutting it up on the bandsaw, one of my teenage girls wandered out to see what I was doing.
I held up some of the huon pine and said, 'Here. smell this timber.'
She said, 'Hmmm. Smells like Tasmania.' And wandered off.
This is a kid who knows nothing about wood and has no interest in it but who clearly has a good sense of smell. She went on a school trip to Tasmania two years ago and did a walk and hung around Hobart for a few days. The smell of that wood must be so present down there and must be a part of her 'smell memory' of that trip. I quizzed her afterwards and she had never heard of huon pine so had no idea of the significance of it to Tasmania.
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7th July 2020, 06:08 PM #2Senior Member
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A bit quirky
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7th July 2020, 06:22 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Whatever you do don’t let her smell any whiskey - she just may embarass herself.
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7th July 2020, 07:15 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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It’s quite true, many of the old buildings along the waterfront In Hobart are full of huon pine, it was plentiful back then and easy to work.
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8th July 2020, 09:37 AM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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They would have walked along the waterfront in Hobart. And they probably went to the Salamanca Markets which I think should be called the Huon Pine Markets because every second stall has stuff made from huon pine. The scent would have been present there - mixed with the smell of takeaway food, which would have been the allure to those kids. They probably went to that museum in I'm keen to get back to Tassie myself to see if I can detect the smell of huon pine just walking around.
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10th July 2020, 10:00 AM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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The air is sweet all through the apple isle!
Cheers Wayne
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