Thread: Hairy Oak Bowl blanks? - Where to source

Originally Posted by Fumbler

Team, does anyone know where i can obtain any Hairy Oak bowl blanks? (Moderator, please switch me if i'm in the wrong spot).

Please PM me

Just hairy oak anything I think for me.

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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.

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

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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.

Ironic! The best log I've seen came from Herberton Didn't even realise it grew up there until my mining mate that was snooping around up there sent me a pic of the tree . . . and then bought the log home for me
For an idea of scale, the shorter section is 800mm long.

Originally Posted by TTIT

Ironic! The best log I've seen came from Herberton Didn't even realise it grew up there until my mining mate that was snooping around up there sent me a pic of the tree . . . and then bought the log home for me
For an idea of scale, the shorter section is 800mm long.

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.