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Thanks ubeaut. It is use as that sanding sealer, diluted down, that interests me most - it's ability to help resist staining from handling, it's ability - or not, it sounds like - to take other kinds...

I've been getting back to some bush 'stick' furniture making after a long hiatus.
At my best, like this (local acacia "sally wattle")
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For all that the shaped sanded parts bring out...

I got myself a bandsaw recently and was curious about which blades and how well the Tungsten ones work. My internet searches seemed to find TCT bandsaw blades intended for metal but I didn't find any...

Hi, I do a bit of "stick" furniture (using thin poles, saplings etc) that makes use of the abundant acacias and regrowth eucalypts and am curious about small scale kiln drying. Mostly I use "sally...

Hi Neville, I'm new here myself and live not far from Tenterfield. Actually the chair I sent a pic of in my intro a couple of threads back is one of a pair, with a table, that is currently in the...

Actually glad I could get that pic up without problems - if it involved resizing I'd have struggled.

For those interested, this one uses a local acacia, species unknown. People just call it 'sally...

Thanks for the welcome. I just had a quick look to see if the post was up. I will probably put up a thread about small kiln drying later - and links will be appreciated.

Hi, the name is Ken and I make a bit of what gets called bush furniture, although I think it's more correctly referred to as stick furniture - ie made using small poles. I have lots of regrowth...

Dave, I'm kind of assuming that it is Lyctine borers - small holes with borer frass (powdery ####) coming out of them - these are the ones that affect the timbers I use.

The CSIRO has some info...

I use borax very successfully to prevent powder post borers in the poles I use for stick style furniture; they like sapwood and what I use is saplings that are mostly sapwood - including some...