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Thread: Camphor laurel
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20th October 2005, 08:17 AM #1New Member
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Camphor laurel
I'm just about to have a bloody great camphor laurel chopped done in my front garden. Its about 20 m high and approx. 800 mm in dia.
I'm in Brisbane.
Two questions. Is this a suitable wood for you woodturning types and does anyone want bits of it before they cart it away?
Mark
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20th October 2005, 08:29 AM #2
I just paid $250 for a 2.8 x 1.2 metre slab for a bar top, so hope it's a good wood to work with?
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20th October 2005, 10:09 AM #3
Mark
Make sure the tree guys grind the stump right back. Also suggest you put whatever your favourite poison is on the exposed stump base when they're finished. Do it whilst still wet and sappy.
I got rid of 4 monsters CL trees 12 years ago. I find it inexplicable but whats left of the roots still send up suckers even now!
These things have a pact with the Devil. Maybe you should shoot the stump with a silver bullet too.Bodgy
"Is it not enough simply to be able to appreciate the beauty of the garden without it being necessary to believe that there are faeries at the bottom of it? " Douglas Adams
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20th October 2005, 01:44 PM #4
I personally really enjoy turning camphor luarel and if I was anywhere near Brisbane I would be there like a shot *sigh*
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21st October 2005, 10:57 PM #5Intermediate Member
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Up and down the Easy coast (and maybe elsewhere?) probably the most available quality turning species and best of all it's a win win, the councils hate it and turners love it! It's a tougher ask when you come to sell pieces made from it - it has a bad rep as a tree and, perversly, punters won't pay for it in the made piece - fools they are!
Mike Jefferys
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6th December 2011, 08:56 AM #6
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Two questions. Is this a suitable wood for you woodturning types and does anyone want bits of it before they cart it away?
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/emb...laurel-143157/
Depending on where it grows the CL can have fantastic colour to the heart wood.Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
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6th December 2011, 09:22 AM #7
Three pieces two at the rear and the lolly pot in the middle
dig the root ball out and cut it up too you'll be amazed at the colour.
how i wish i had a bl&&^big shed and lived closer
Oh be warned the smell is beaut but wear a mask, eye protection if turning wet a and possibly a raincoat LOL