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  1. 19th October 2006, 10:39 PM #1
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    fellas I need a bit of help with a block of wood .
    While looking around under the metal lathe bench for a lost just made bush for my penmill I found a block of wood I bought about 10 years ago its labeled Native tassie olive...its a 7 kg piece and I will probably take a slice off it tomorrow as it is still waxed to see how the grain looks.
    any idea of its botanical name and if its good for bowls or some such?
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    Pete, Native Olive, Olea paniculata is quite a hard and dense timber, greyish in colour. Not one of my favourites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rowie View Post
    Pete, Native Olive, Olea paniculata is quite a hard and dense timber, greyish in colour. Not one of my favourites.
    maybe make a mortar and pestle out of your block
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    thanks for the feed back ....I may make a pen out some of it ...for those that find it hard to write
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