Thread: Spalted Mango ?

Originally Posted by Pariss

Hey guys. My next door neibour is a fanatical woodworker like me. He specialises in unusual fancy box's, and has a bunch of offcuts of Spalted Mango he collected from a large tree knocked over by cyclone Yasi. Just wondering if it's any good to turn ?. It looks unreal !!!!!!!!

Nah! no good at all Pariss just send it all down here. Ha ha just kidding it is great to turn and gives some interesting patterns in the blanks

Pariss mate,

Believe me some of the most exciting blanks ever are Mango it can be incredibly figured, twisted, colourful and mind bending, go for it.

Kind regards Peter.

I'll try anything once!

Grab it.

Just give it a try you might be pleasantly surprised.

I have some offcuts from our Bowen Mango Tree that I have used for some pen blanks that I am donating to some members of the North Queensland Cowboys Supporters Forum as a competition prize between all of us.

For the uninitiated, one of the Cowboy players is Matt " Mango" Bowen hence why I have chosen the Bowen mango wood plus because I had some for free from my back yard.

it has a really great spiraling grain with a bit of spalting. As it turned the grain just stood out. I am pleased i kept some when I pruned the tree a couple of years ago and not just burnt it like where it was destined to go.

Pete

Yup, go for it.

OK, I was given a nice 1/2 log of Spalted Mango this morning by my woodworking buddy neibour, and thought I'd share the start to finish process for anyone that is even more of a beginner than me, ha ha ...... Log into a Gentlemans Pen. This half log has some nice 'scribble' spalting through it. Ended up getting 18 full size pen blanks + some off cuts for a couple of box lids.

What about the last picture? You know, the bit where you take a photo of the package containing some of the spalted mango blanks with my address on it?

How many pieces are you sending me ???????????????????