Thread: Anyone know where to buy Mallee Burl - have included pic of latest piece I have done

Don't know where to buy any Mallee Burl, but the carving came up really well. You should be proud of that.

Hey Cheers,

Many thanks for your reply. Well heres hoping that someone knows someone who knows someone or has some laying around.

Cheers,

Steve

Have you tried firewood suppliers?

I would post this over on the woodturning forum.

Those members are more likely to know about burls.

Here's some http://www.popsshed.com.au/Product_L...cid=20&scid=42 but there are more around down your way

Very good save from the fire.

One source would be the person who put it in the fire. They seem to know that it burns very well.

Nice carving. How much sanding did you do after the CNC machine finished cutting?

Been a long time between drinks, no sanding at all. 2mm ball nose. Only used a pointy ss piece of wire to dig out some bits caught in grooves.. Apart from that all my work effort is put into the mesh to make sure my cnc isn't wanting to carve things that are not there or make unnecessary pits.

Cheers,
Steve

That is very interesting and looks great!
How long did your CNC machine take to make it?

Hey G'day,

From start to finish - I had to lvl the piece front and back that took about 45 min of juggling it around. The actual carving about 2.5 hours. I could have probably done it in less time and could shave 30/40 minutes off the carving but I had never carved mallee root before so it was go slow till I worked out how it cut.

No rough cut was done so its straight ball nose/finishing pass as the depth of cut was just under 16mm.

I still haven't found a reliable source of Mallee Root yet. I am looking at giving Boab wood a shot as well it look interesting and has a nice grain, only came across Boab by accident bought a none functioning clock one of those miserable plastic clock things people put on really nice pieces of timber.

Cheers and avagreatday.
Steve

try this mob they seem to specialise in Mallee Root firewood

Firewood | Pimpala Landscape Supplies

Try Barry Moon, (Moon Mills) he will be taking mallee burls to the Melbourne WWW show in a month or so I think.
Tel: 0428569181
greg

Gentlemen ty very much for the info, much appreciated. I'll give Barry a call see what he has to say and have on offer.

Ill give pimpala a call as well even though they are in SA maybe they have something of interest.

Cheers,
Steve

I use mallee root charcoal in my charcoal bbq, burns rice and hot. It comes in 20/30kg bags I think so someone up the chain of production may know.

Originally Posted by Greg Ward

Try Barry Moon, (Moon Mills) he will be taking mallee burls to the Melbourne WWW show in a month or so I think.
Tel: 0428569181
greg

Hey G'day,

Just spoke with Barry, he seems to be a decent old sort.. He was interested in the type of work I did so will send him some mail with pics. Will be catching up with him in Caulfield in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Steve