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Basically if you are running small blades then you can run them a lot faster than bigger blades. With the bigger blade cutting heavier material you need more torque and less speed.

Na, this stuff is like light pine and sands beautifully. I just can't think of anything that looks like that but is heavy.

It looks to me like some kind of auracaria but that would be light rather than heavy. I'll put up a photo of a bit of Norfolk Island Pine I have just been sanding.

Maybe an archtop rosewood guitar with a couple of those panels...When you get around to it.

think it would have to be tallow wood to last that long. Also the right colour and grain.

I think we need a much closer picture to be able to have a guess at the species.

I always thought that holes in the timber are an indication of borers. Most of the time they only go for the sap wood so you can often cut that bit off and solve the problem. The other thing with...

I have just finished some wardrobe sliding doors with the last of a pack of red cedar. It is very variable stuff, some quite heavy some very light. It seems that the further north it grows the...

Wow, this thread is still engaging people. Battlebosun the thing is that the finish is purely cosmetic. I have been using wooden chopping boards for more than forty years with no finish. but they are...

What a job! It looks to me that it might have been made with european veneers. The dark one in the middle could be walnut then the next highly figured one looks like english oak cut just off the...

My guess is some kind of mangrove. It is hard to tell from the photos but mangrove does have a distinct grain with clumps of vascular bundles. It often smells bad from marine worms and stuff rotting...

That is an excellent present, being both functional and decorative so I am sure she will treasure it. And I am a bit inclined to rail against material possessions too, especially around Christmas.

As far as I can see butchers are all still using end grain wooden chopping blocks. It seems that the wooden blocks are actually germicidal while nylon or other plastics can harbour the nasties deep...

Hi, I am just moving out of Newey for a year and a few things have to go - bandsaw, tung oil, wood, kayaks (red cedar Chesapeake 16s) etc. send me a PM and you are most welcome to come and have a...

Hi, I have a stash of timber - red cedar boards, rosewood, hairy oak, about 100kg of various burls, a nice lump of huon etc. Now it is time for me to move them on but I am so out of touch that I have...

That veneer looks like red cedar and the wood behind it looks like hoop pine.

Hi, does anyone know of a small (bandsaw preferably)miller in the Hunter? We have a big Norfolk Island pine down and I would love to salvage a few slices of it. PM me with a number if you can. Thanks...

I think it would dry flat if you keep enough pressure on it while drying. Certainly worth a try and if it twists too much you might be able to flatten short lengths and make a table with the boards...

Yes it is great timber and has a long history of use. The Romans prized citrus wood and often the most valuable thing in a roman villa would be a citrus wood table. My personal favourite is almond...

Its not so much the rot that I would be worried about but the splitting. All the stone fruit woods are brittle, prone to radial cracking and really have to be at least split down the middle when they...

I have a pneumatic drum sander and a series of flap sanders which leave a beautiful finish on compound curve work. Doing piece work by hand can be very quick and accurate once you get it set up and...

Potential buyers are not going to be worried about a couple of patches of paint

The tension guage is usually useless. Try bumping the tension up in increments and do some test runs in scrap timber. My bet is more tension will improve it. Also have a look at where the blade goes...

Looks like there isn't enough tension on the blade. Bigger blades need lots of tension.

We had exactly this dilemma when doing up a house back in 2011. After a couple of talks with real estate people we decided to go full removal rather than just cover. The real estate people reckon...

Definitely a eucalyptus ripple, you are going to need a belt sander.

Too good to pierce. That piece is just about perfect as it is, nice delicate balance of thickness/thinness and curves.

We did look at using the aluminium sandwich panels for lining and fittings but it turns out to be very fragile wherever it has been bent and even around screw holes etc. I'm pretty sure it would...

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We did a camper van in 2016. We put stic-on bitumen on aluminium paper into the wall cavities for insulation and sound deadening and then lined the inside with plywood (3mm ish) with a laminate white...

Thanks Ian I like you remedy for delamination and that is probably the way I will go. I know the hulls are not designed to take the stress of a catamaran hull and I intend to make a very light weight...

I don't have the name of the epoxy any more as I gave the leftovers away. It was just a generic couple of litres from a local supplier called Trojan Fibreglass though. Something they package...

Thanks for that advice Bob. I wouldn't be able to sand this back because the veneer is incredibly thin, much less than a milimetre. The story is that we had six sheets of 3mm red cedar veneer on 3mm...

I've made these kayaks from 3mm red cedar ply (stitch and glue, epoxy on 6oz. cloth, linear poly varnish) and after about four months these unsightly blotches have appeared on one of them. I guess it...

The basic thing is that the bandsaw is not a precision instrument. (maybe with a very good machine and a very good operator) You really need to mark your lines very carefully with a sharp scribing...

We built a dry composting toilet. Its just a big plywood cube basically with a toilet lid on top and a long bit of down pipe out the back to ventilate it. Worked a treat and the poop all but...

I read an article that said NSW had quietly dismantled their Parks based remote area fire response team although they were all fully trained and Park employed volunteers. So, a bit hard to respond...

And if you can't understand that there has been a huge propaganda effort to protect fossil fuels have a look at this...New IMF study says the 'true cost' of fossil fuels is actually about $5...

[QUOTE=Toymaker Len;2173978][QUOTE=Beardy;2173838]Really? You are checking to see if I have logged on as you are busting to win an argument :C

"I am not particularly a fan of the whole CC mantra /...

[QUOTE=Beardy;2173838]Really? You are checking to see if I have logged on as you are busting to win an argument :C

I am not particularly a fan of the whole CC mantra / religion

The thing here...

Have a look at this Paul, Innovation - Sundrop I am no expert but I have just read Tim Flannerys' latest book ( and yes I do find it a bit disgusting that such an honorable man (Australian of the...

Sorry Doug I should be more clear. I am not referring to the formulation of the actual metal I am using the generic term "low carbon" to indicate a manufacturing process which does not rely on fossil...

This is just not true. At the beginning of the industrial revolution steel was made with charcoal and it was only replaced with cokeing coal as forests were decimated and charcoal became more...

1-" What is this golden opportunity that Australia is presented with? I hear this touted a bit but don’t understand what it is".
-We have massive amounts of free energy that we can pump up into asia...

[QUOTE=woodPixel;2172794]Doesnt biochar (or simply burning) produce CO2? (Biochar - Wikipedia)

No biochar made by pyrolisis doesn't produce carbon dioxide, it is made by heating carbon rich...

New renewables became cheaper than gas or coal power back about 2014 on a cents per kilowatt hour basis. (Don't even think about nuclear,,,triple the cost and politically suicide) The trouble is, as...

So...you go to the doctor and after a few tests the doc says "you've got idiopathicthrombocytopenicpurpura. Its a rare disease and it will kill you most unpleasantly if we don't treat it. The only...

Elm is one of the great timbers of all time. Beautiful grain, creamy sapwood running into chocolate heartwood, legendary toughness and durability. Seat timber for windsor chairs, Cooks Endeavour was...

If it doesn't leak and it doesn't break you are good to go. Especially in safe inland waters. Just wear a Personal Flotation Devise.

There are lots of other sources of timber. I break up a lot of pallets and get some really nice stuff -coloured exotics, pine, mahogany. There are also lots of tree surgeons around who are happy to...