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  1. 14th September 2008, 03:08 PM #1
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    So,

    I've been lugging this small pile of wood around with me for 10-15 years, without doing anything with it. Got it from an old Intarsia buddy at Cooroy from his property.



    Most of it's pretty boring. Some plain grained ash of some kind (Crows Ash? Silver Ash?), some other short log, fairly beefy, I cant tell it's grain it's too dark, will have to wait till cut it, a thin outer trunk slice of She-oak, or Silky Oak and I knew I had Camphor Laurel (and lots of it) but the grain and colour cetainly hasn't excited me for Intarsia. But then in the middle of it all, I came across this!!



    If my eyes don't deceive me, that's a big lump of Silky Oak, isn't it? And Silky oak would be good for Pens wouldn't it? It's about 55cm tall all up. A few flaws and a big cut in one side, but most of it seems good wood (what I can see, anyway).

    Assuming I can get it cut up nicely, how many blanks you reckon I could get from that? Conservatively, I reckon there's at least 20-30, possibly more.

    My only dilema now is, I originally got all this stuff for Intarsia, and if I convert it to pen blanks, it'll be no use for Intarsia anymore. What a dilema!

    Looks like I better get practicing on my resawing.

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  3. 14th September 2008, 03:19 PM #2
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    Dunno what "intarsia " is but send him a wooden pen ,after fifteen years he will be glad you are doing something with it
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  4. 14th September 2008, 03:32 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoomerangInfo View Post
    ...I've been lugging this small pile of wood around with me for 10-15 years... ...I originally got all this stuff for Intarsia, and if I convert it to pen blanks, it'll be no use for Intarsia anymore. What a dilema...
    15 years and you havn't done any intarsia work with it, no dilema to me
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    Dunno what "intarsia " is
    Examples of intarsia.
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  5. 14th September 2008, 03:45 PM #4
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    Aha! wooden jig-saw puzzles for adults
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  6. 14th September 2008, 04:47 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toasty View Post
    15 years and you havn't done any intarsia work with it, no dilema to me .
    LOL, maybe. But I've been saving it for those "special" pieces, like my sister's wedding present I started 10 years ago. Hopefully she'll still be married when I complete it

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    Either way it needs to be slabbed, yes?

    So start slabbing, put half aside for intarsia and half aside for pen blanks. Where's the conflict?

    (Of course, we all know that once you've finished turning the pen blanks you'll dip into the intarsia slabs and will have to buy more anyway, but that's a problem for another day... )
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