robutacion
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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to catch up in bringing all my info about my timbers, already available at other locations, here for you folks to have a look...! It would be a totall confusion and madness to only use the links, you would be jumping from one place to the other like a grasshopper...!
On this thread, I will be talking and showing the Olive wood that grows around here. There are basically 3 different types of olive trees in the area, and they are, the older ones the Majestic olive trees planted from middle to late 1800's by the first Settlers, some have been planted more recently 50 to 100 years old, and they are the same species as the original ones. Then we have the modern plantation olive trees, which are more like a miniature tree of the European type large trees we normally see. These have been generically modified to stay low to the ground (special prunings are required every season) but the trees are different, very light silver colour thin bark, the trunk is short and not very wide, they don't grow much timber as such, generally will stay a small tree easy to reach for olive picking. Finaly, we have the Wild olive, which is more like a bush/shrub then a tree. They normally grow from an old olive root left buried on the ground for many years. A large number of branches shoot up from the root, forming a medium to large bush, capable to reach 5 meters high. The number of branches varies from 10 to 50 or more, depending on the size of the old root, they produce small quantities of totally unusable fruit (olives, birds don't touch them!), the life expectancy is low of about 15 to 25 years, and the maximum diameter on the healthier branches, could reach approx. 7" with about 3" to 4" the most common. The heartwood on the wild olive is small, compare with its royal descendants, the browns are not as dark, black lines are rare but the sapwood as brighter yellow and the growth rings are quire visible, making this timber very attractive also, extremely heavy and tremendously strong!
I have a good amount of all these species, particularly the Majestic Olive that come from trees planted around the 1860.
I have catalogued my olive wood in the following way;
Blanks size - approx. 21mm square X 130mm long.
Double length are available for perfect match double pen sets.
#20 in the list - Wild Olive (straight cut) - $1.20 each
--#20Z (diagonal cut) pen blanks - $1.50 each
#21 in the list - Majestic Olive
--#21A1++ = Highest grade (straight cut) - $2.00 each
--#21A1 = A1 grade (straight cut) - $1.50 each
--#21A2 = A2 grade (straight cut) - $1.00 each
#22 in the list - Old Olive Root (one type cut only) - $2.50 each
I may sometimes offer a special on various blanks groups, like some on eBay at the moment (free freight offer is only for Australia)
All amounts are in Australia currency!
The number of blanks shown on each pic (small pack), are equivalent of 500gr weight, the number of blanks also varies depending on the timber species, as some as a lot lighter then others.
Now the pics...!
If you see anything of interest, or if you have any questions, just let me know!
PS:I have added the Australia Post calculator link so that you can work out the various possibilities and costs http://www1.auspost.com.au/pac/
Cheers
George
I'm trying to catch up in bringing all my info about my timbers, already available at other locations, here for you folks to have a look...! It would be a totall confusion and madness to only use the links, you would be jumping from one place to the other like a grasshopper...!
On this thread, I will be talking and showing the Olive wood that grows around here. There are basically 3 different types of olive trees in the area, and they are, the older ones the Majestic olive trees planted from middle to late 1800's by the first Settlers, some have been planted more recently 50 to 100 years old, and they are the same species as the original ones. Then we have the modern plantation olive trees, which are more like a miniature tree of the European type large trees we normally see. These have been generically modified to stay low to the ground (special prunings are required every season) but the trees are different, very light silver colour thin bark, the trunk is short and not very wide, they don't grow much timber as such, generally will stay a small tree easy to reach for olive picking. Finaly, we have the Wild olive, which is more like a bush/shrub then a tree. They normally grow from an old olive root left buried on the ground for many years. A large number of branches shoot up from the root, forming a medium to large bush, capable to reach 5 meters high. The number of branches varies from 10 to 50 or more, depending on the size of the old root, they produce small quantities of totally unusable fruit (olives, birds don't touch them!
), the life expectancy is low of about 15 to 25 years, and the maximum diameter on the healthier branches, could reach approx. 7" with about 3" to 4" the most common. The heartwood on the wild olive is small, compare with its royal descendants, the browns are not as dark, black lines are rare but the sapwood as brighter yellow and the growth rings are quire visible, making this timber very attractive also, extremely heavy and tremendously strong!I have a good amount of all these species, particularly the Majestic Olive that come from trees planted around the 1860.
I have catalogued my olive wood in the following way;
Blanks size - approx. 21mm square X 130mm long.
Double length are available for perfect match double pen sets.
#20 in the list - Wild Olive (straight cut) - $1.20 each
--#20Z (diagonal cut) pen blanks - $1.50 each
#21 in the list - Majestic Olive
--#21A1++ = Highest grade (straight cut) - $2.00 each
--#21A1 = A1 grade (straight cut) - $1.50 each
--#21A2 = A2 grade (straight cut) - $1.00 each
#22 in the list - Old Olive Root (one type cut only) - $2.50 each
I may sometimes offer a special on various blanks groups, like some on eBay at the moment (free freight offer is only for Australia)
All amounts are in Australia currency!
The number of blanks shown on each pic (small pack), are equivalent of 500gr weight, the number of blanks also varies depending on the timber species, as some as a lot lighter then others.
Now the pics...!
If you see anything of interest, or if you have any questions, just let me know!
PS:I have added the Australia Post calculator link so that you can work out the various possibilities and costs http://www1.auspost.com.au/pac/
Cheers
George
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