Thread: Turnfest Wood Swap??

Originally Posted by Little Festo

Good to hear you might be there. SheOak is from the same family as Silky Oak (I think). Tends to be quite splitty but the smaller pieces I have are fine. I'll get a small collection of longer pen blanks for you.

Got some good sized silky oak the other day, will bring a few of these too for swapping.


Peter

I looked up sheoak and then kicked myself. Sure I know them - as a tree anyway. Only by their name Casuarina. We had them on a property I lived on at Peak Crossing - they surrounded the bottom paddock by the creek and when the wind went through them they sang. The ends of the leaves go brown - that's the "flowers".

Don't know them as the timber. I don't think that they are related to silky oak, but I could be wrong.

The Sheoaks normally belong to the Casuarina, but the Silky around here is a Grevillea