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Nice Pulsar. What's that shinny silver thing infront of it that does nothing?

[buzzda]

silverbeast did lots.... back then.

Pulsar Dad bought of the next door neighbour for $150. He'd had one of his grandiose ideas and was gonna build a slasher out of it and an old colt he had out.... was never more than a good conversation topic over a few coldies. anyway it sat in that spot for bout 2 yrs then they got rid of it and the colt to the wreckers.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

I'll catch some benchtop images for you ASAP Buzzsaw. That's some fine lookin' bar you be holding there, much respect to your Ma 'n Pa.

Cheers,
Nik

[buzzda]

Thanks mate. Look forward to seeing yours.

I should add that Dad's done that all himself, even the stained glass in the door. Built the house from the ground up, from digging the footings by hand (he was a stubborn prick)to putting the roof on to the final touches... I'll have to get some pics of his timber handbasins.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

As requested, here are some pictures of my wood //pause// bench tops.













All local Marri, or Redgum to you eastern staters.

Something I had a strong hand in making;



Cheers,
Nik

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Nik,

Your wooden floors have a hard on.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

Don't ruin our thread.

Cheers,
Nik

[buzzda]

Alex, the best wood is hardwood!

Looking good Niko, big benches are awesome!!

Dunno why they call that Redgum over there, it's Spotted Gum.




Was the main timber we ran at the mill when I was working there. Comes in a huge variety of colours (usually depending where it comes from) from white to red to grey to green and brown or a mix.

The tell tale features are the coarse ball like gum vein and that shimmer in the grain (that goes sort of diagonal across).

[skillionaire]

Hi,

We call it Marri, I thought you guys called it Red Gum?

Cheers,
Nik

[buzzda]

Here's our problem solved:

Red Gum may refer to any of a number of species of Eucalyptus or the closely related Corymbia, including

Corymbia calophylla, Red Gum or Marri, native to Western Australia
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Red Gum, Murray Red Gum or River Red Gum
Eucalyptus macrorhyncha, Red Gum, Red Stringybark, Cannons Stringybark or Capertee Stringybark
Eucalyptus tereticornis, Red Gum or Forest Red Gum

Those benches of mum and dads are what we know as Redgum over here.

The pics in my last post were of Spotted Gum flooring.

The Marri "redgum" looks more like what we know as spotted gum.

[buzzda]

Another thing I'll mention is it is common practice in the timber industry to "substitute" timbers that can be grown in plantation, ie spotted gum, for rarer timbers such as Marri. We used to do it all the time with blue gum as red mahogany, red gum or grey gum as red iron bark, greybox as grey iron bark, flooded gum as blue gum, the list is endless.

Here's another Marri floor


IMHO looks like the bench tops are Marri, tho I'm bit suss on the table. There's 2 boards right in the middle of the floor pic that look like the Marri floor above but the rest looks like Spotty.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

Surprisingly interesting. Thanks for the information.

High five!

Cheers,
Nik

[buzzda]

*e-high fives Nik*

No worries brotron.

Just wanna make clear I'm NOT trying to take anything away from what you've done, it looks FREAKING AWESOME!!

I just have an unusual interest in timber.

[skillionaire]

Hi again,

I know you're not having a go mate! I like the input.

Table is not Marri, the floor under it isn't either, that's just Tassie Oak (Bluegum?). That's an older room that I've converted to a whisky tasting area.

The main floor is definitely Marri, I went and saw it milled myself. The levels I played with on pShop forked it out a little bit. The image you posted looks to be standard or below in grade? I went for s-premium 19mm so it has a bit less grain but retains more integrity on heavy traffic? Or is that not quite right?

Cheers,
Nik

[buzzda]

Yeah, less feature (gum vein etc) = more strength. haha, can't argue with that (if you saw it milled).

And on the Tassie Oak, it doesn't exist. There isn't a Tasmanian Oak tree, it originally was a mix of light coloured eucalypts coming from Tasmainia but is now just any mix of light coloured wood, we used to use blackbutt and northern beech alot for it.

Tassie Oak info

[skillionaire]

Hi,

I have to laugh when people say 'Tassie Oak' like it's some sort of exotic wood. I think most people by now know it's just a term for plantation crap. Usually pretty soft too!

Cheers,
Nik

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Hai!

[buzzda]

Hi,

I have to laugh when people say 'Tassie Oak' like it's some sort of exotic wood. I think most people by now know it's just a term for plantation crap. Usually pretty soft too!

Cheers,
Nik

I laugh at the price difference between TO & Black butt at bunnings.

While we're showing our woods I thought I'd dig up a few pics of a couple of the coffee tables I've made, one of the few perks of grading the timber is I had 1st dibbs on any usual bits that came thru.

"Birdseye" feature black butt with red iron bark border:





This one's my favourite:





is grey iron bark with red iron bark grown around the grey. brush box legs

[buzzda]

Cheers mate. Yeah iron bark is a really nice timber, it takes some working cause it's so hard but comes up beautiful.