robutacion
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Hi everyone,
Has mentioned on my last post of the Apricot wood thread here, I'm now getting some rewards from the years waiting to get some woods from the local timber mill, bits and odds that I may or may not ever get myself from the paddock or someone's private property/yard so, and how we say it here in OZ land, "better 1 bird in your hand than 2 flying...!".
The Silky-Oak was my first score, and last Saturday(16/7/11) I got 3 scores, some more Silky-Oak, half of an Australian Blackwood tree, cut recently and finally (for this time...!:wink
a full medium size Walnut tree that was cut from the local(ish) Walnut farm 25km away.
The old fellow cut this tree, slabbed the biggest log but short (about 4') and the rest was piled up outside. He brought home pretty much the full tree as all the branches over 2" on diameter, are/were there. Still with some bark that is rotten and loose to the touch, the wood is absolutely dry as a bone and solid rock, I mean hard as hell...!
Even tough it all has been in the rain and mud for years and years, with tonnes of other woods on top, this was one of the treasures he knew he had, but not exactly, where...! Moving woods around as he has to do, now that the oldest son is in charge, the son wants the place clean and wants space, something that the old fellow filled with woods that are no good for the son's business so, the old fellow (Bill) has been busy, and I'm sticking to him like a tick...! well, wouldn't you...???:wink:
We got most of the small stuff from it on Saturday, as the pile is a tangled mess that has to be sorted by hand before the forklift can get near so, we got a trailer full of it for now, the rest next Saturday, hopefully...!:biggrin:
Bill, doesn't have any other name for it than the local Walnut tree that produces nuts, I'm not familiar with all the Walnut varieties so is difficult to put an exact name to it, maybe a little search at some time, will give some results.
The wood is more Grey(ish) than brown, very dense but not extremely heavy. Not the most "busy grained" or colorful woods I've seen but, there are areas that have some interesting spalting and other areas with some nice "eyes' that look like bark dots with some orange coloration around in between...!
So I would say that, from this wood, I will be producing 5 types of pen blanks, straight, cross and diagonal cuts, spalted and burly type blanks...!:wink:
I've got 4 of these 5 samples done, I need to get the straight cut done and then shown them here...!
Works very well, and finishes with little effort.
This wood is more than ready to be worked on, water didn't affect this wood in any way, shape or form...!:biggrin:
I know where this "Walnut farm" is, in fact, I was told that the name of the property/farm was due to the fact that, once upon a time, the place was a walnut farm but no longer so, I should stop by sometime and see if those people leaving there, are still the original owners, relatives or complete strangers that bough the place recently(ish), and hopefully get a little more story to had to this wood.
The farm is located near the road where I travel sometimes, the farm wooden sign's name was nicely carved in Walnut but, due to its age, is difficult to actually work out what the wood is.
There are no walnut trees that can be seen from the road but apparently, and according to Bill, there are still a few old trees left at the very back of the farm, where this one come from. I have been told that are a couple of Walnuts trees in my Town but I don't know where they are...! Gotta go looking, again...!:wink:
So here they are, some pics of some of the Walnut. They were taken after I took most of it to the open storage paddock, but took some home to start working on. I will get some more pics, some from the pile hopefully, unless he gets there during the week and sorts it all out to a better loading location...!
Enjoy...!
PS: If you can identify this type of Walnut tree, that would be great...!:biggrin:
Cheers
George
Has mentioned on my last post of the Apricot wood thread here, I'm now getting some rewards from the years waiting to get some woods from the local timber mill, bits and odds that I may or may not ever get myself from the paddock or someone's private property/yard so, and how we say it here in OZ land, "better 1 bird in your hand than 2 flying...!".
The Silky-Oak was my first score, and last Saturday(16/7/11) I got 3 scores, some more Silky-Oak, half of an Australian Blackwood tree, cut recently and finally (for this time...!:wink
a full medium size Walnut tree that was cut from the local(ish) Walnut farm 25km away.The old fellow cut this tree, slabbed the biggest log but short (about 4') and the rest was piled up outside. He brought home pretty much the full tree as all the branches over 2" on diameter, are/were there. Still with some bark that is rotten and loose to the touch, the wood is absolutely dry as a bone and solid rock, I mean hard as hell...!
Even tough it all has been in the rain and mud for years and years, with tonnes of other woods on top, this was one of the treasures he knew he had, but not exactly, where...! Moving woods around as he has to do, now that the oldest son is in charge, the son wants the place clean and wants space, something that the old fellow filled with woods that are no good for the son's business so, the old fellow (Bill) has been busy, and I'm sticking to him like a tick...!
well, wouldn't you...???:wink:We got most of the small stuff from it on Saturday, as the pile is a tangled mess that has to be sorted by hand before the forklift can get near so, we got a trailer full of it for now, the rest next Saturday, hopefully...!:biggrin:
Bill, doesn't have any other name for it than the local Walnut tree that produces nuts, I'm not familiar with all the Walnut varieties so is difficult to put an exact name to it, maybe a little search at some time, will give some results.
The wood is more Grey(ish) than brown, very dense but not extremely heavy. Not the most "busy grained" or colorful woods I've seen but, there are areas that have some interesting spalting and other areas with some nice "eyes' that look like bark dots with some orange coloration around in between...!
So I would say that, from this wood, I will be producing 5 types of pen blanks, straight, cross and diagonal cuts, spalted and burly type blanks...!:wink:
I've got 4 of these 5 samples done, I need to get the straight cut done and then shown them here...!
Works very well, and finishes with little effort.
This wood is more than ready to be worked on, water didn't affect this wood in any way, shape or form...!:biggrin:
I know where this "Walnut farm" is, in fact, I was told that the name of the property/farm was due to the fact that, once upon a time, the place was a walnut farm but no longer so, I should stop by sometime and see if those people leaving there, are still the original owners, relatives or complete strangers that bough the place recently(ish), and hopefully get a little more story to had to this wood.
The farm is located near the road where I travel sometimes, the farm wooden sign's name was nicely carved in Walnut but, due to its age, is difficult to actually work out what the wood is.
There are no walnut trees that can be seen from the road but apparently, and according to Bill, there are still a few old trees left at the very back of the farm, where this one come from. I have been told that are a couple of Walnuts trees in my Town but I don't know where they are...! Gotta go looking, again...!:wink:
So here they are, some pics of some of the Walnut. They were taken after I took most of it to the open storage paddock, but took some home to start working on. I will get some more pics, some from the pile hopefully, unless he gets there during the week and sorts it all out to a better loading location...!
Enjoy...!
PS: If you can identify this type of Walnut tree, that would be great...!:biggrin:
Cheers
George
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