robutacion
Member
Hi folks,
This will be my first add since the changes on the Classifieds sections and despite my intention of starting with some of my new woods I have been working on these last 6 months or so (none yet listed on eBay, either but, will soon...!), I endup starting with one that I had no intentions to do anything with for some more time, as it has been safely put a side since the day I found it, a few years back.
There is, until I had recently (couple of weeks ago) someone from the Australian State of the Rum, asking me if I could provide some very old and very dark Red Gum wood for Rum "curing"...!
. I have at least 4 very distinct "reds" from this wood at different ages but, I though in check my private stash for that Red Gum that is, beyond any doubt, the darkest red I ever saw from Australian Red Gum, and also with those blackish strips through the grain and that I believe, was due the wood to be under water from a natural water spring and its pure minerals...!
Interestingly, this person has already bough some other Red Gum pen blanks and I didn't know that they were going to be used as such so, I decided to make him an offer, of cutting a number of pen blanks and send them free of charge, in exchange for the blanks been returned after used and 1 bottle of the Red Gum cured rum...!:wink:
He couldn't be happier and I am most intrigued in having a taste of that specially cured rum (I don't drink but, I will have a nib...!) and, the returned blanks will be almost black, I'm sure, something that will make them even more special to me...!
This was when, I decided to cut what I had into pen blanks, as the small single log was cut originally as round bowl blanks, (I wasn't into pens, in those days...) and sell most of them...!:smile-big: (don't worry, I kept a few for me...!)
Now, the total number of usable pen blanks that I cut was about 120, of these, I hand selected all the ones that had no defects or any flaws of any kind, making them, simply unique exhibition grade pen blanks and they are only 43.
There is no great colour/grain variations in between them, and group pics don't make them justice, reason why I turned a pen shaped sample finished with CA to demonstrate how they really look like, something that the close up pics show reasonably well...!
Now, people will ask...! what so special about this wood...???
Well, when I found this log, I wrote a full description of the story on the Australian Woodworkers forum (where I was very active at, at that time, until I was banned...!), with some nice pics of this amazing under water find but, unfortunately and after desperately searching for that "thread", I realized that, anything that I have posted under that forum name, was removed so no longer exists...!
If that wasn't enough, even the pics that I had from that post/find, where all lost in a major computer (hard drive failure) I had a couple of years ago where I lost about 6.000 pictures...! One of the positives of posting stuff with pics is that, you "normally" can copy those pics back if something happens to the original ones, which I did with many hundreds of them but, some were lost forever, as these ones seem to be part of that group.
I have no doubt that, many of the guys and gals that have been following me through the Internet on these type of forums, will recall a thread that I named "The toe find", as the log was detected/found with my toes, when I jumped into this old abandoned water spring, to cool myself down in one of those 40°+ days we have every so often in Summer. I hope someone remember that, and validate my claim...!
This was a natural water spring that was used by the very first Chinese Settlers in this area, they used some of the old and very large Red Gums trees (at least they have to be a couple of hundred years old) to construct most of what could be constructed with wood and this spring was "boxed in" like a small little pool (about 2 square meters) with some Red Gum logs, to keep some water at the spring base, instead of running all downstream, fast...!
The old house and everything else was built around this water spring, as all the cultivated land was supplied with this water. From what I could find out, this small Chinese farm was functioning from about 1860's to about 1950's, now all in ruins...!:frown:
Some how, of all the logs used as retaining walls in this hole on the ground, have come apart from lack of maintenance and nature forces, being very soft sandy soil, heavy rains have helped the sand to shift and the wood became loose and floated or got buried under the sand downstream somewhere, which I never found any other logs so, the only one I salvaged was the one that was still buried on the "pool" bottom, about 5' deep.
Any items found at this old property, and or the permission to be there in the first place, was granted by the current property owners (last 10years) that are well aware of my salvaging wood madness. As a result, I was nominated as the "guardian" of the large area of Pine forest planted within the property and or any other trees part of the farm. This allow me to do regular "runs" through the place and check things out, particularly all the fire-brakes around the Pine forest that I have offer to make and maintain, while I can, free of charge.
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Remember, the wood/blanks are in SA - Australia
-* Ship anywhere in the world, for locations other than USA or Canada, please request quote...!
-* 250gr small box parcel to USA or Canada - AU$12.00 Regular Air-mail, shipping only. Fit 4 blanks with all the square corners cut-off.
-* 500gr small box parcel to USA or Canada - AU$19.00 Regular Air-mail, shipping only. Fit 8 blanks some need square corners cut-off.
-* Parcels over 500gr to USA will attract the Custom sub-charge of extra $9.00
-* Each blank weights approx. 55gr.
All blanks have their 4 faces covered with wax (not dipped) for protection and colour enhancement. Wood natural/uncoated colour can be seen on the blanks ends and on turned samples square areas and in between barrels...!
Blanks are marked individually from #1 to #40 so, select the numbers/blanks you want and post a list with them so that I and everyone else can see what is sold and what is still available...!
Blanks are AU$4.00 each.
Paypal is the only payment acceptable.
Soon after your order request, you will receive a PM with payment details and or other info necessary.
For any other inquiries, please send me a PM...!:wink::biggrin:
Thank you.
Cheers
George
This will be my first add since the changes on the Classifieds sections and despite my intention of starting with some of my new woods I have been working on these last 6 months or so (none yet listed on eBay, either but, will soon...!), I endup starting with one that I had no intentions to do anything with for some more time, as it has been safely put a side since the day I found it, a few years back.
There is, until I had recently (couple of weeks ago) someone from the Australian State of the Rum, asking me if I could provide some very old and very dark Red Gum wood for Rum "curing"...!
. I have at least 4 very distinct "reds" from this wood at different ages but, I though in check my private stash for that Red Gum that is, beyond any doubt, the darkest red I ever saw from Australian Red Gum, and also with those blackish strips through the grain and that I believe, was due the wood to be under water from a natural water spring and its pure minerals...!Interestingly, this person has already bough some other Red Gum pen blanks and I didn't know that they were going to be used as such so, I decided to make him an offer, of cutting a number of pen blanks and send them free of charge, in exchange for the blanks been returned after used and 1 bottle of the Red Gum cured rum...!:wink:
He couldn't be happier and I am most intrigued in having a taste of that specially cured rum (I don't drink but, I will have a nib...!
) and, the returned blanks will be almost black, I'm sure, something that will make them even more special to me...!This was when, I decided to cut what I had into pen blanks, as the small single log was cut originally as round bowl blanks, (I wasn't into pens, in those days...) and sell most of them...!:smile-big: (don't worry, I kept a few for me...!)
Now, the total number of usable pen blanks that I cut was about 120, of these, I hand selected all the ones that had no defects or any flaws of any kind, making them, simply unique exhibition grade pen blanks and they are only 43.
There is no great colour/grain variations in between them, and group pics don't make them justice, reason why I turned a pen shaped sample finished with CA to demonstrate how they really look like, something that the close up pics show reasonably well...!
Now, people will ask...! what so special about this wood...???
Well, when I found this log, I wrote a full description of the story on the Australian Woodworkers forum (where I was very active at, at that time, until I was banned...!), with some nice pics of this amazing under water find but, unfortunately and after desperately searching for that "thread", I realized that, anything that I have posted under that forum name, was removed so no longer exists...!
If that wasn't enough, even the pics that I had from that post/find, where all lost in a major computer (hard drive failure) I had a couple of years ago where I lost about 6.000 pictures...!
One of the positives of posting stuff with pics is that, you "normally" can copy those pics back if something happens to the original ones, which I did with many hundreds of them but, some were lost forever, as these ones seem to be part of that group.I have no doubt that, many of the guys and gals that have been following me through the Internet on these type of forums, will recall a thread that I named "The toe find", as the log was detected/found with my toes, when I jumped into this old abandoned water spring, to cool myself down in one of those 40°+ days we have every so often in Summer. I hope someone remember that, and validate my claim...!
This was a natural water spring that was used by the very first Chinese Settlers in this area, they used some of the old and very large Red Gums trees (at least they have to be a couple of hundred years old) to construct most of what could be constructed with wood and this spring was "boxed in" like a small little pool (about 2 square meters) with some Red Gum logs, to keep some water at the spring base, instead of running all downstream, fast...!
The old house and everything else was built around this water spring, as all the cultivated land was supplied with this water. From what I could find out, this small Chinese farm was functioning from about 1860's to about 1950's, now all in ruins...!:frown:
Some how, of all the logs used as retaining walls in this hole on the ground, have come apart from lack of maintenance and nature forces, being very soft sandy soil, heavy rains have helped the sand to shift and the wood became loose and floated or got buried under the sand downstream somewhere, which I never found any other logs so, the only one I salvaged was the one that was still buried on the "pool" bottom, about 5' deep.
Any items found at this old property, and or the permission to be there in the first place, was granted by the current property owners (last 10years) that are well aware of my salvaging wood madness. As a result, I was nominated as the "guardian" of the large area of Pine forest planted within the property and or any other trees part of the farm. This allow me to do regular "runs" through the place and check things out, particularly all the fire-brakes around the Pine forest that I have offer to make and maintain, while I can, free of charge.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Remember, the wood/blanks are in SA - Australia
-* Ship anywhere in the world, for locations other than USA or Canada, please request quote...!
-* 250gr small box parcel to USA or Canada - AU$12.00 Regular Air-mail, shipping only. Fit 4 blanks with all the square corners cut-off.
-* 500gr small box parcel to USA or Canada - AU$19.00 Regular Air-mail, shipping only. Fit 8 blanks some need square corners cut-off.
-* Parcels over 500gr to USA will attract the Custom sub-charge of extra $9.00
-* Each blank weights approx. 55gr.
All blanks have their 4 faces covered with wax (not dipped) for protection and colour enhancement. Wood natural/uncoated colour can be seen on the blanks ends and on turned samples square areas and in between barrels...!
Blanks are marked individually from #1 to #40 so, select the numbers/blanks you want and post a list with them so that I and everyone else can see what is sold and what is still available...!
Blanks are AU$4.00 each.
Paypal is the only payment acceptable.
Soon after your order request, you will receive a PM with payment details and or other info necessary.
For any other inquiries, please send me a PM...!:wink::biggrin:
Thank you.
Cheers
George
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