Thread: river oak

Great score Texx.

Sweet Texx!!

I can just imagine the grain in some f those branch forks.

nice sore

Wow thats nice grain it would look great bookmarked.

That is some great looking wood. Suggest you rough turn and seal as many bowls as possible as soon as possible. If your oak is anything like ours you might want to spray the lathe bed with oil and cover that with plastic before turning wet oak. Others will probably follow here with better advice.

Really good score there Texx

I'd be roughing out some bowls and then cutting the rest down for handles, pepper grinder blanks etc - ie 75, 60, & 50 mm slices etc and wax the lot. Much easier to cut when it is wet, dam hard and full of silica when dry. After drying they can be cut down further as required.

Nice score Tex
I think you have too much wood, so I'm going to have to visit

Nice haul Texx.

My two bob's worth is to take out the pith when you're dividing the logs.

Yeah, not all that easy when you're under the pump but it's easier to do it with a whole log than with a half log, and lots of mischief starts from the pith if you leave it til later.

So are there other names for River Oak?

nice score, have heard that its pretty hard to dry and loves to split. Best of luck with them though

I have two in my garden but they have only been in for a bit over a year

Originally Posted by Texian

That is some great looking wood. Suggest you rough turn and seal as many bowls as possible as soon as possible. If your oak is anything like ours you might want to spray the lathe bed with oil and cover that with plastic before turning wet oak. Others will probably follow here with better advice.

Not like your Oak Texian. Your Oak is a true Oak a Quercus.

This is an Alocasuarina (Spellin?) Called Oak because of the medullary rays.

Originally Posted by rsser

Nice haul Texx.

My two bob's worth is to take out the pith when you're dividing the logs.

Yeah, not all that easy when you're under the pump but it's easier to do it with a whole log than with a half log, and lots of mischief starts from the pith if you leave it til later.

So are there other names for River Oak?

yep it is
casuarina cunninghamiana

no other common name that i know of

Hi Texx,
My $'s worth is to work out which way it was growing, & turn it upside down, & the water will just run out of its own accord. I would also lay it up against a North East Wall somewhere, so as the UV Rays kind of pass over the wood as that appears to be one reasons why wood splits.
Wouldn't leave it to long before you would use the Mobilcer.
A lot of Turners usually just mix up really old paint & use that.
Have you had the Mobilcer long & what may have been the price.
If it is anything like English Oak , then you are going to have a great time with it.
Regards,
issatree.
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i have had the mobilicer about 6 months and i got it for nix on the condition that the guy i got it from can use some if he needs to < ( but i am pretty sure he wont ) he had it for years he was the local mobil depot owner and he got it to seal the ends of a few sleepers and never used it again after he did that job.
on the wax sealing thing i have only done it only once before on some olive wood i think it was and half the wax lifted off in sheets of its own accord a few days after dipping it , anyone shed any light on why that happens ,'\
its a mix of bee's wax with just a little bit of parrafin wax melted in with it .

So you'll be dropping some of that at my place right?