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1st November 2022, 09:18 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Hairy Oak Bowl blanks? - Where to source
Team, does anyone know where i can obtain any Hairy Oak bowl blanks? (Moderator, please switch me if i'm in the wrong spot).
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2nd November 2022, 11:27 PM #3Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
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3rd November 2022, 09:25 AM #4
Hairy Oak is not readily available and less so in reasonable bowl blank sizes.
As the link to Vern's TTIT pages shows it grows in a rather contorted manner, with twists, fissures, bark inclusions, and a quite irregular cross section. To top it off it splits as quick as you look at it. Also, as Vern states the hairy oak bark hides everything, so purchasing logs is a bit like putting money on a horse - you may get a return. Been there -out of four "logs" 150 mm dia x 1.2 m long - not one blank larger than 50 x 50 x 300 and even that had good "character" features. Good news is that hairy oak pen blanks are popular.
The stuff we get in FNQ is quite small mainly due to the fact that it was heavily exploited to fuel the steam boilers for mining in the hey days of mining around the Herberton / Irvinebank area. The best Hairy Oak I have seen has all come from the southern highlands of Central Qld.Mobyturns
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9th November 2022, 08:08 PM #5
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9th November 2022, 08:28 PM #6
All relative I guess, some wonderful HBO has come to me through members of the Rocky woodturners. Lucky enough to win a nice chunk in a Turnout raffle last year.
About 3 years ago a post on Gumtree appeared for a pallet of logs of HBO for around $1500. The vendor was around the south end of the Atherton Tablelands. Sadly, I slept on it overnight & the advert disappeared in the meantime. A timber business in Cairns used to sporadically get lots of HBO logs and rarely with anything over 125 mm dia. That business no longer exists.Mobyturns
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