robutacion
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Hi everyone,
I will give a few hints to the wood species it belongs to, it is one of the first woods I found when I moved up here, therefore is in my timbers list (the first 30 numbers in the list, do not represent the order they were found...!).
Is one of the Native trees of Australia and actually the tree symbolizes one of our States. When green, smells like flowering Gidgee, for those that have experience it and I can tell you that me smell is not nice...!:frown:
Relatively short life expectancy, this one is believe to be about 35 years old and of of its bigger killers is a particular type of wood borer that eats the wood inside out, filling its channels with sawdust, as it goes...!
Spalts very easily, with some of it happening while the tree still stands and alive, such as this one. The bark is very dark, the leafs are medium green and the flowers yellow. Produces some nuts/pods the size of a small hazelnut.
Lots of clues, huh...???
I had this wood cut in all sorts of blanks sizes and shapes but, all of the wood I ever had was from trees that were very dead, most felt to the ground. This is the first one ( and the biggest one) that I manage to get when it was still half alive. What I mean is that, the tree being so old, the main trunk was pretty punky and eaten away, but one side of it has re-shot long ago from the side of the root growing a new smaller trunk that it became attached/melted to the old trunk but feeding from the old root.
This tree did became a hazard and marked as condemned by the council so, I offer to cut it and remove all its remaining's. I had my eye on this tree for some years as it was located at the main entrance of my auto-mechanic's property. Its location was no more than 2' from the mechanics fence, 2 meters from the main road (high traffic) and about 4' from the entrance itself, this meant that the tree had only one 1 safe fall direction (over the fence into the mechanics land) of the 4 possible, that was a risk that no one was willing to take, including myself that use that road and the mechanics driveway, to damn often...!
The dead wood is pretty much what I was expecting and have plenty of but, the alive/green stuff, did show an increase in the bright reds typical of this wood but this time, the sharpness of all the colours was amazingly obvious so, a tree that was still standing yesterday, is now cut, stored and with some of the green wood, in processing.
I've got a small log cut last night when we got home, and then took some of the pen blanks upstairs to the house to microwave and see if the colours would stay sharp. This morning when I picked one the the now dry blanks and put it in the lathe, did become obvious that the colours were still there and certainly enhanced as soon as I put the first coat of this CA.
I have now 3 samples done but was to late/dark by the time I finish the last 2 so I only have pics of the first (crotch wood) and certainly, the most spectacular one. The other 2 are cut with the grain (straight cut) one a 2 tone and the other a heartwood one. I'm yet to cut some in diagonal and cross, and from the colours of the wood, they will be also very interesting, I'm sure...!
So here it is...!
What wood species could produce such beauty...???:wink::biggrin:
PS: The numbers in the sample, correspond to each of the blanks faces, only...! I didn't write the more important identification number, for a reason, huh...???:wink:
Cheers
George
I will give a few hints to the wood species it belongs to, it is one of the first woods I found when I moved up here, therefore is in my timbers list (the first 30 numbers in the list, do not represent the order they were found...!).
Is one of the Native trees of Australia and actually the tree symbolizes one of our States. When green, smells like flowering Gidgee, for those that have experience it and I can tell you that me smell is not nice...!:frown:
Relatively short life expectancy, this one is believe to be about 35 years old and of of its bigger killers is a particular type of wood borer that eats the wood inside out, filling its channels with sawdust, as it goes...!
Spalts very easily, with some of it happening while the tree still stands and alive, such as this one. The bark is very dark, the leafs are medium green and the flowers yellow. Produces some nuts/pods the size of a small hazelnut.
Lots of clues, huh...???
I had this wood cut in all sorts of blanks sizes and shapes but, all of the wood I ever had was from trees that were very dead, most felt to the ground. This is the first one ( and the biggest one) that I manage to get when it was still half alive. What I mean is that, the tree being so old, the main trunk was pretty punky and eaten away, but one side of it has re-shot long ago from the side of the root growing a new smaller trunk that it became attached/melted to the old trunk but feeding from the old root.
This tree did became a hazard and marked as condemned by the council so, I offer to cut it and remove all its remaining's. I had my eye on this tree for some years as it was located at the main entrance of my auto-mechanic's property. Its location was no more than 2' from the mechanics fence, 2 meters from the main road (high traffic) and about 4' from the entrance itself, this meant that the tree had only one 1 safe fall direction (over the fence into the mechanics land) of the 4 possible, that was a risk that no one was willing to take, including myself that use that road and the mechanics driveway, to damn often...!
The dead wood is pretty much what I was expecting and have plenty of but, the alive/green stuff, did show an increase in the bright reds typical of this wood but this time, the sharpness of all the colours was amazingly obvious so, a tree that was still standing yesterday, is now cut, stored and with some of the green wood, in processing.
I've got a small log cut last night when we got home, and then took some of the pen blanks upstairs to the house to microwave and see if the colours would stay sharp. This morning when I picked one the the now dry blanks and put it in the lathe, did become obvious that the colours were still there and certainly enhanced as soon as I put the first coat of this CA.
I have now 3 samples done but was to late/dark by the time I finish the last 2 so I only have pics of the first (crotch wood) and certainly, the most spectacular one. The other 2 are cut with the grain (straight cut) one a 2 tone and the other a heartwood one. I'm yet to cut some in diagonal and cross, and from the colours of the wood, they will be also very interesting, I'm sure...!
So here it is...!
What wood species could produce such beauty...???:wink::biggrin:
PS: The numbers in the sample, correspond to each of the blanks faces, only...! I didn't write the more important identification number, for a reason, huh...???:wink:
Cheers
George
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