Thread: White finial?

Originally Posted by dai sensei

...... but I do have Bonewood, that works if you turn it carefully and do not scrape. It is not a fine grained timber, but with careful cuts and sanding can look good.
The below piece's finial, rim and legs are from Bonewood, some spalted slightly......

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Originally Posted by tea lady

Googles Norfolk island Hybiscus. Common name of "itchy Bomb tree" .........

Warning - DO NOT crush said bomb in hands to collect seeds - DAMHIKT

Originally Posted by TTIT

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Warning - DO NOT crush said bomb in hands to collect seeds - DAMHIKT

So how long does it itch for?

Originally Posted by tea lady

So how long does it itch for?

As a famous fruiterer once said . . . "cuppla days!"

Originally Posted by tea lady

That would be great! He's up that way soon isn't he! Exactly what tree is Bonewood from?

That would be the Bonewood Tree

Originally Posted by TTIT

Would that be Bonewood as in macropteranthes leichhardtii that grows in soft scrub in Central Qld???? - maybe not - it is a very dense, fine grain and my samples are nowhere near that colour

Nah, this is from the Acradenia euodiiformis. Scored my first trunk from amongst the paperbarks near the NSW border (see this thread), but I scored another tree from up on the plateau behind the Gold Coast amongst some ancient Jacarandas, so not sure of they were planted or self seeded.

PM me if you want some for your egg collection and I'll send you some.

Cheers

Model one in White Fimo (STAEDTLER FIMO modelling clays and accessories) it's great stuff.

Originally Posted by dr4g0nfly

Model one in White Fimo (STAEDTLER FIMO modelling clays and accessories) it's great stuff.

Hmm! that's an Idea! Then I could do a different shape!

TTIT
I thought privet grew just about everywhere but maybe not up north . The last bit I got was growing in my back yard .
Ted

TL, the best timber is the Tamarind tree, hard and white, turns crisp, grows up here in the tropics, but when I get one, I cut it into blocks and cover it with rotting organic matter and keep it wet to start the spalting, so untill the next one comes along, I cant help you,
regards,
Crocy.

+1 for Holly.

But don't let it sit green (as in wet) for any time as it spalts to green.
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Originally Posted by NeilS

+1 for Holly.

But don't let it sit green (as in wet) for any time as it spalts to green.
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You'd think I could find a holly bush somewhere isx the hills. A gardener friend of mine told me about this holly TREE they cut down, (cos its a weed and spreads everywhere. ) that was enormous! Really big trunk and everything...... I hate stories like that! Like the fisherman telling you about the one that got away!