Thread: Mangrove sierra

beautiful coloured timber, and a great looking pen

I don't know what the laws are on removing mangrove, even driftwood mangrove in South Australia, but I know that you can not remove any living or dead mangrove in Queensland. Just be careful mate if there are any people that lean the green way. Might have to give it a different name. In saying that, it has an amazing colour and has a great fit and finish.

Cheers
Darren

Definately a nicely figured piece of driftwood Matches nicely with that kit as well ,now if a bit of twisted horrible stick of "black Coral" should sully your beach,just let me know and I will come clean it up for you ,lol, cheers ~ John

Originally Posted by bdar

I don't know what the laws are on removing mangrove, even driftwood mangrove in South Australia, but I know that you can not remove any living or dead mangrove in Queensland. Just be careful mate if there are any people that lean the green way. Might have to give it a different name. In saying that, it has an amazing colour and has a great fit and finish.

Cheers
Darren

Hmm, thanks for that, mykpenturner mentioned this as well in another thread. The driftwood in question was a stick probably about 600mm long 60mm at the thick end tapering down to about 20mm, so I would think it would be a fairly pedantic officer to ping a bloke for that. Not to say it wouldn't happen. The sort of thing you would pick up and use as a walking stick to poke around with.
I appreciate the heads up and will look into what is allowed, cheers, seriola.

Originally Posted by gawdelpus

Definately a nicely figured piece of driftwood Matches nicely with that kit as well ,now if a bit of twisted horrible stick of "black Coral" should sully your beach,just let me know and I will come clean it up for you ,lol, cheers ~ John

no black coral but did pick up some other treasures I am willing to part with, including half an old black steel cap boot and an empty plastic bait bag. pm me your address if you want them, I will save you a trip and post them to you

bloody beautiful
now where's my bit

Seriola,

Pens made from timber such as yours have character and your pen has it together with a neat colouring. Well done.

Years ago I received some from the Everglades in the States a rare according to the label colour form not unlike yours. A couple of years ago I received timber from Qld coast Monkey Puzzle tree for all the world identical in lightness and grain to Red Cedar indeed they are closely related.

Thankyou for showing and I am in the line for that coloured Coral in fact tomorrow there is a Gem Affair I will attend solely for that reason.

Kind regards from a fellow Sand Groper.

Peter.

Lucky find and beautiful pen!

Talking of driftwood I have a piece of what looks like Hairy oak that turned up in a load of tumbled sandstone gravel. Put it aside for later attention.

Certainly some nice colours going on there

If anyone asks where you got the wood from, just tell them from an aquarium shop, they sell mangrove roots all the time. I still have a few from Darwin when we cleared heaps for a new freeway, with the necessary enviro clearances/permits, for table stands I was making at the time.

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Sitting on my bench. Can send them in with the loml Monday or Tuesday if you like, if that suits let me know and I will pm you where to collect them.

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Certainly some nice colours going on there

If anyone asks where you got the wood from, just tell them from an aquarium shop, they sell mangrove roots all the time. I still have a few from Darwin when we cleared heaps for a new freeway, with the necessary enviro clearances/permits, for table stands I was making at the time.

Thanks for that. I will also see what I need to do to get some legitimately, it looks so good and is a treat to work with, be nice to share some around.

Originally Posted by seriola

Sitting on my bench. Can send them in with the loml Monday or Tuesday if you like, if that suits let me know and I will pm you where to collect them.

no hurry need to buy some pen kits first,
went for a walk down to the swamp past the nursing home lots of living trees there but didn't go far into the mangroves will will do some time into the future.
I believe that one should be able to use some of the logs laying rotting away othr wise how will our grandkids kids know what beauty some of our timber is

lovely piece of timber, beautiful colourings great work.