Toon

[ren-lathe]

This one is made out of Toon an exotic from Hawaii. The grain and color set it apart.

 

[1dweeb]

Awesome

 

[mrcook4570]

Beautiful grain! Nice work!

 

[alamocdc]

Cool! You ain't really gonna spit in it, are you? :biggrin:

 

[nava1uni]

Very beautiful.

 

[Tom T]

Wow and wow

 

[Bob Wemm]

Absolutely beautiful, wood and workmanship.
Congratulations and thanks for showing.
Bob.

 

[Fishinbo]

Special grain. Special bowl.

 

[Ed McDonnell]

Pretty wood, but it looks more like tropical ash to me.

Hawaii Island Hardwoods - Certified Hawaiian Hardwood Lumber

Ed

 

[Kalai]

Very nice bowl and a nice wood too, I like the way the shape shows off the grain. I have been harvesting a lot of Toon lately, for me and I got 12 logs for Hawaii Island Hardwoods. It is a very nice wood, the Toon is a nice reddish color and the Tropical Ash is white, you can tell by the color. Aloha.

Kalai

 

[ren-lathe]

This is toon the interior is almost brick red the outside of the bowl is a very very light pink

 

[bench1holio]

im pretty sure "toon" is australian red cedar or toona ciliata var. australias.
It is one of Australia's few native deciduous trees. The timber is red in colour, easy to work and very highly valued. It was used extensively for furniture, wood panelling and construction, including shipbuilding, and was referred to as "Red Gold" by Australian settlers.[5] Heavily and unsustainably exploited in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, almost all the large trees have been cut out and the species is essentially commercially extinct.[6] However, the timber is relatively fast growing and following on from a wave of tree cutting in the 1950s, regrowth and timber from forestry sources currently provides trees up to 1 metre in diameter for the furniture trade in Australia and timber is not difficult to source.

 

[Kalai]

im pretty sure "toon" is australian red cedar or toona ciliata var. australias.
It is one of Australia's few native deciduous trees. The timber is red in colour, easy to work and very highly valued. It was used extensively for furniture, wood panelling and construction, including shipbuilding, and was referred to as "Red Gold" by Australian settlers.[5] Heavily and unsustainably exploited in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, almost all the large trees have been cut out and the species is essentially commercially extinct.[6] However, the timber is relatively fast growing and following on from a wave of tree cutting in the 1950s, regrowth and timber from forestry sources currently provides trees up to 1 metre in diameter for the furniture trade in Australia and timber is not difficult to source.

Yes you are correct, Toon is from Australia and it grows here in Hawaii, just like a lot of other woods that grow here in Hawaii, a lot of them come from Australia.
There is a guy from Hawaii that sells pen blanks and bowl blanks and he says everything is rare, Toon is common here in Hawaii. I actually sell a lot of it and cheaper than the guy on ebay. I wish we has some of those Box trees over here in Hawaii, that is some real nice wood you guys got over there. Aloha.

Kalai

 

[Rcd567]

Just Beautiful.