Thread: Redgum pricey?

Nice looking bit of timber, but $56 a l/m seems fairly pricy to me.

Dan

Dan, by my calculations that works out at $6,738 a cube, very pricey, still a beautiful piece of timber. I can buy kiln dried Red Gum for $4,000 a cube, or less for green.
Cheers
Barry

Well it's not cheap but for one piece with no wastage the price is not too bad , especially considering the excellent figure shown in your photo. And checking goes with the territory with red gum.

Working on stock size of 150 x 75 that's over $5K a m3! :eek: I don't think I've ever paid that much for any timber.

Mick

Martrix .... just keep telling yourself .....

I got a good deal .... I got a good deal .... and everything will be ok ..... then never by timber off that trader again.

On Friday I went down to a small tool shop .... you know the ones .... no prices on anything .... to pick up some sanding pads for the ROS ..... I only really wanted a few 80 grit. When I arrived they had only one 80 grit left ..... last time I was there I was charged $1.00 ..... as I didn't have any cash I thought I would get a few other grits (that I didn't really need) to make it least $10 to put on the card .... I also picked up two screwdriver bits for $1.00. When I went to pay the guy mumbled the price as I handed over the card ..... I thought it didn't sound like $11.00 so I thought I would check the slip before I signed .... the slip said $25.00 :eek: I questioned how much the pads were .... $2.00 each was his reply .... I said I only paid $1.00 last time ... nup $2.00 each for the 150mm. Whatever I just signed the slip and got out of there. When I got back to the car I thought for a second 10x $2.00 + $1.00 = $21.00 even if they were $2.00 ex gst it still doesn't add up. I though of going back and having a go at the guy .... then I thought I will never go back and that will teach him.

I just told myself .....
I got a good deal .... I got a good deal ....

Admit it. You got spanked. :eek:

All the above re price of redgum is true Martrix and if you happen to find yourself out on the Darling or Murray or Murrumbidgee etc with a trailer and a chainsaw you can pick up as much fiddleback redgum as you care to for nothing but half an hours conversation with the landholders. But for someone in Melbourne... firstly the piece has come through two or three dealers before it got to you and they all have to make a living, secondly that is no ordinary piece of redgum it has a beautiful depth of colour and a rare quilted grain so is the potential raw material for an exceptional piece of furniture. Don'y worry be happy.

Expensive piece of wood, but the figure makes it special. You could probaly have got boring straight grained board for 1/2 the price, but it wouldn't have been special

Sometimes the difference between a $200 table and a $400 table is $50 more spend on the wood.

If it turns your project into something special then it's worth the extra $$

Cheers

Ian

help me with my calculation.... i use super feet for my prices???

2.5 meters = 102"
0.13 Meters = 5.5"
0.065 Meters = 2.6"

102x5.5x2.6
/
12
=
121 super feet.... No????

$141/ 121
=
$1.16 per super foot... good??? No???

Help i'm confused... wish i had have paid attention in math.... grrr.

a super foot is 12"x12"x1", multiply the final line by 12

Originally Posted by PAH1

a super foot is 12"x12"x1", multiply the final line by 12

Ha!

ooooo... almost $14 a super foot... ouch.
Sorry Matrix... but it is a nice peice, make sure you use it well. Good luck

Nice bit of timber.......where does it grow.

Red Gum (marri) in W.A (part of Australia) is almost white and with lots of gum veins.

Ugly {(

Typical of the confusion caused by the use of common names for tree species. In WA, Redgum is the common name for the Marri, but over east they are talking about River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis).

We get the River Red Gum here in WA, but being similar in colour to Jarrah, it is rarely used. I remember reading somewhere that the famous leaning trees at Greenough (south of Geraldton) are River Red Gums.

There are a lot of different spcies called Red Gum. The most common being River RG (E. Camaldulensis) and Forest RG (E. tereticornis) But there are many, many more. I heard on a doco one day that there are something like 90 Euc species known as Red Gum.

Dan