Thanks mate. Looking forward to being an active part of this great community.
Thanks mate. Very nice timbers you have in that lot. Enjoying the articles/posts and pens immensely. If can help with a few bits and pieces always happy to.
Definately the place George! Oh sooo many great places around the world on my wishlist of where I would like some timber from. So much wood envy even more so after a quick looksie in the gallery.
Alan, thanks mate. What a place for a lad from Ireland to end up for a dozen years, was once a regular traveller through the area. Lots to learn and feel like i am gonna spend quite a bit of time in the library, archives and searching.
Jim thanks mate. She's a friendly place, with great people. Looking forward to seeing you around the forums.
Hi Ironwood, see you are from one of my favourite cities. Beautiful wood up that way. A bit of a fetish... uh huh. We might have to get into that one day mate. Thanks for the welcome!
G'day Woodchipper, thanks for the welcome mate. Just lucky to be in a area where one or two nice bits of wood grow.
Thanks Tom, appreciate the welcome. Great user name... great musician.
G'day Fayed, thanks for the welcome. Since a little one the more I read of Oregon the more the state fascinated me. Such a great place here. Glad i bit the bullet and joined up.
G'day Alan, a couple hundred km's west of me at the moment. Be a nice time of the year to be visiting over there at moment I reackon!
G'day magpens, thanks for the welcome. The City of Churches and The City of Sin. Great place always loved up in the hinterlands amongst the historic villages.
Ooops yes I did indeed. Although being in the middle of the pacific on a boat with a lathe and stockpile of wood would be fanbloodytabulous!
Hi Roly, luckily might get a few weeks of winter up here! Also lucky the Myall stinks when burning. Beautiful country down your way. What wood do you like?
G'day John. Thanks for the welcome mate. Looking forward to drowning myself in everything hereWelcome to IAP Ken!
Oh yeah love me a bit of River Red Gum, have a few slabs been making into coffee tables. Havn't had the pleasure of Tassie Blackwood yet. So many timbers on my list.
G'day Roly,
Promise to pratter a bit about the imported stuff, only have some grapevine and mulberry at the moment but [emoji6].
Hahaha Mal, and I have been keeping silent reading about familiar stuff and one of the things I'm passioned about is great to see younger people taking on the challenge and actually stop for a minute and realise the resources all around them, finding the way to bring those resources home may be somewhat daunting but a bit of "Macgyving" goes a long way...!
That's no good mate. Be happy to help with some blanks if you want any, full or some chunks for live edges. PM me if you would like.
And a shilling or two... very good points George. Blackwood(s) are a great example another, and one of my favourite timbers, is Myall. Represented in many areas but each being a "unique" variety (the one in my area the best, of course). A lesser known one I have just discovered is Raspberry Jam Wood a beautiful wood variety. I do live my native timbers George, and those from PNG, and do what I can to promote them. I do like to read on what people are doing with their species overseas and always feel a pang of... strewth she'd be good to have a crack at that, or that one.Hahaha Mal, and I have been keeping silent reading about familiar stuff and one of the things I'm passioned about is great to see younger people taking on the challenge and actually stop for a minute and realise the resources all around them, finding the way to bring those resources home may be somewhat daunting but a bit of "Macgyving" goes a long way...!
This country has so many tree species that the world never heard of much less see and touch them, each state has unique native trees that fall in that same category, in this part of my "woods" I dedicated a great deal of time and effort to "represent" what is around, share them all with the world has been one of my priorities in these last 13 years so, I hope others are able the share with everybody what is "local" to them...!
There are many introduced tree species growing in Australia, each state tends to allow some introduced tree species to develop better than others one I don't believe grows in Australia is the Tasmania Blackwood, we have Black Wattle and Australian Blackwood both different than the Tasmanian Blackwood.
Anyway, that's my two bobs...!
Hi Ken,
but the second species I was after was the Raspberry Jam that in my timber list is #64 and also known as Acacia Acuminate, one wouldn't think that is from the "Acacia" family but it is, there is only a small patch of these tree species that I found near me, one of those native trees that is very patchy (at least in this part of OZ) I didn't take any recent pics of these trees but I should as soon as I have the opportunity. Beautiful wood but is only one problem with it, it bleeds a lot when is cut and soon after, it makes a nasty gummy mess but after is dry is a pleasure to work with...!
