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Thread: Unidentified timber
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28th October 2006, 03:46 PM #1
Unidentified timber
Hi, we have access to heaps of this timber, I mistakingly took it as Tuart, and attempted selling some. It is not tuart, does anyone have any ideas? It was cut down around 20 mins away from where we live. Pretty sure its a native.
I will try to get some pictures of the bark. Made a bowl out of it,
Sanded to 1200g, finished with shellawx cream. Very basic, but the object is what timber is it?
Any help much appreciated.
Joash:confused:
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28th October 2006, 04:04 PM #2
jeez dunno mate, was it a large tree, hard or heavy or light..
could be peppermint, marri, karri, its kind of yellowish, whats it smell like when cut..even looks a bit like camphor
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28th October 2006, 04:07 PM #3
Has a whitish bark, the most hardest timber I've ever turned when dry, but cuts beautifully. Huge tree, some of them what we cut are up to 9 feet in diameter. Smells....different.
It's not marri or Karri, and definatly not camphor.
Ole Dingo might know
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28th October 2006, 04:11 PM #4
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28th October 2006, 04:13 PM #5
No, its a great timber, with some really nice grain,
The bowl and this, were off the same tree
Look at this pic
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28th October 2006, 05:17 PM #6
Hi Joash, bit hard to tell the timber colour as your pix seem to be mainly yellow. I will have a guess at Wandoo,York Gum or Salmon Gum.
Cheers
BarryIf it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck then it's a friggin duck.
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28th October 2006, 07:05 PM #7
Is it realy hard, compact timber, shavings bright yellow.
Sorta seems to cut like its wet but is in fact dry.
And you can polish it past 1200 dry.
If so it's probaly osage.
If its osage it s weed but well worth cutting down, get every scrap inch you can.
cheersAny thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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28th October 2006, 07:38 PM #8
Everything you said, but the shavings are variable, according to grain. I'll stick some photos up soon.
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28th October 2006, 07:51 PM #9Everything you said, but the shavings are variable, according to grain. I'll stick some photos up soon
Check this site out it may be able to help you
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28th October 2006, 07:56 PM #10
ok, thanks
Was This made by the TTIT on here?
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28th October 2006, 09:25 PM #11
More pics
Ok, here are some more photos.
#1 The outside of a blank. This was off of a branch, as I mentioned before, they grow over 9 feet in diameter. Rough silverish bark.
#2 I quickly ran a block through the lathe. This is with a freshly sharpend gouge, I was holding it the way I usually do when I get long streams of shavings up to 30cm long. These are the biggest shavings I could get. It is so hard. Note that this timber was green. It may change to a different coulor when dry.
If anyone can help, I will be much obliged,
Joash
Last edited by RETIRED; 30th October 2006 at 04:29 PM.
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28th October 2006, 11:33 PM #12
The more I see & hear the more I think osage.
Although I've never seen a whole log so the bark is a mystery to me.
Even when well dry the ribbons come off it freely.
cheersAny thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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28th October 2006, 11:52 PM #13
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29th October 2006, 08:17 AM #14
hey good call groggy, definatley looks like osage
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29th October 2006, 12:44 PM #15
The bark doesn't look anything like Bois d'Arc from Texas. Ours have much rougher bark, and it's not silverish... but down deep in the bark crevasses it's sort of an orange color.
Al
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