Thread: African Wild Olive

Fantastic looking timber Andy. Pity I'll never find any around here. Lovely work mate!

Finally managed, I hope. At half time, Frank 1, senility 0

G'day - thanks all for the real nice comments.

I believe that mediteranean/european olive is very similar in how it looks - certainly should do as ours is a sub species - the pictures I've seen of other work using it look very close to it.

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Hi Rayc. Yes, I have timber that would look good as in your photo. I made a few photos of a couple of old items made on the ancient equivalent of a GMC lathe to show you the figure (not the skill unfortunately ) but i can't work out how to post the @#$% things yet. Virtually identical to Caveman's bowls, though. (Again, the figure, not the skill . Well done C!) As he says, this timber is hard and rather unforgiving. Large pieces tend to crack, although 1/4 century of natural drying should be a reasonable bet. Are you sure it is suitable for what you want? If you are, let me know what size pieces you are after and we will see what we can do.

That timber looks real nice. the size of a guitar top is roughly 480mmm X 200mm by as thick as you like minimum of 20mm to resaw into bookmatch set. Obviously thicker gives more sets. Got anything that size ? The more figire the better That guitar shown earlier has a cap of big leaf maple which is as hard as the hobs of hell and twists in front of your eyes as soon as you put a machine near it.
Absolutely a nightnare.

like to see pics if you have.anything

Hi everybody. My apologies for having hijacked this thread, later on I might open another under timber if I want to flog some. Just not to leave this hanging, here are a few more explanatory photos. The first one is another gobled turned fom a smaller branch of the same trees. All three are 186 high, the goblet is 96 wide at the top and the balloon glasses in the previous photos are 110 wide. Wall thickness 3mm for the goblet, thickening to about 10 in the middle for the balloons.

The other pics are of a small log 500 high that I have had cut (don't own a bandsaw yet) to get a 105 thick slab from the centre, with the idea that it could be cut in the middle to get two 50 thick, or squared off to get a 105x150x500 blank. The outside pieces I was thinking of cutting crosswise in 3 roughly 150x150 <> 200x200 pieces for shallow bowls, to take advantage of the rounded back. (TTIT and other aussies: if you like, you could send me a prepaid addressed postpack <500 grams and i'll give you one - you will have to post the picture of what you got out of it though! )

Any ideas about this and how to get the most out of the trunks and the gnarled huge boles would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Frank

real nice grain in those bowls ,first one is a stun ner.