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Just a couple of instrument grade timbers I have been working with over the last couple of days.
This form of sheoak is rare so I secured enough material just in case anyone found them as stunning as I did. The other material is a desert eucalypt

regards

Tim

Nice, Tim.  Too bad you couldn't find something with a little interesting figure in it. 

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Sheoak in general is a very stable tonewood during the whole building process and beyond. This particluar birdseye sheaok appears and feels quite sound. All the birdseye section areas are solid with no parting of the grain.

The eucalypt is definitely a rrosette or head plate material. I will probably resaw it into medium thichkness pieces and rack it out then resaw it again at a later date.

regards

Tim

Tim,
As usual, yer killin' me!

Beautiful stuff there, mate.

Steve

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Wow Tim,

Where do you come up with this stuff?? I have worked with a lot of WA Sheoak over the years and have come across all kinds of variation on the usual grain patterns and all are lovely, but this billet really is something special the likes of which I have never seen before.

So despite my best attempts to not buy any more wood for a while (and believe me, the Don's GOOB Sale has been making this commitment a monumental challenge) I must on this occasion weaken my resolve an ask that you please reserve a set for me.....I may as well just set up a direct debit from my payroll account to your own Mr Spittle, I just do not seem to be able to escape the grip of Australian Tonewoods clutches

Cheers

Kim

When I saw that the first thing that came to mind was Freddy Krugger...... don't ask me why

                           Red

Holy guacamole, Batman!

Tim, I consider this to be cruel and unusual punishment. I'll take a set, please.

Kim is right, it is useless to fight it. You have hit my main W.A.S. vein with this one!

Noting that this is flatsawn wood, I was concerned about stability issues. So, I found this info, and that put my mind at ease. This stuff is VERY stable wood. Tangential (flatsawn) shrinkage from green to 12%MC is only 4.5%, which is more stable than some tonewoods fully quartersawn. If steam reconditioned, it rivals the legendary stability of American Mesquite.

This stuff reminds me of some cactus wood I found in the New Mexico desert - cane cactus. Only the holes are filled in! That is going to make some absolutely knockout guitars.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

[QUOTE=DennisLeahy] Noting that this is flatsawn wood, I was concerned about stability issues. So, I found this info, and that put my mind at ease. This stuff is VERY stable wood. Tangential (flatsawn) shrinkage from green to 12%MC is only 4.5%, which is more stable than some tonewoods fully quartersawn. If steam reconditioned, it rivals the legendary stability of American Mesquite.
Dennis[/QUOTE]

You have hit the nail right on the head Dennis.

WA Sheoak is incredibly stable wood and as your link mentions, prior the metal kegs, it was favoured by Coopers/Barrel Makers, as a material form which to manufacture beer barrels. Indeed it was this legendary stability which led me to choose this particular wood for my Sunset Box, a "hand tools only" traditional rounded lid chest which I made about 12 years ago and yes, I know, I know, I have shown it here before.






The lid of this box is made up of 10 x 1" wide x 1/2" thick hand bevelled slats which have been bore drawn using Tassi Oak dowels to lock them into rebated cut into the end plates and rails and, as they have not budged in a dozen years, this box remain testament to the stability of WA Sheoak, the strength of bore drawn joinery and the magic of PVA glue.

Cheers

Kim

Looks like ye olde Pirate's Chest that does. So what be in that there chest me hearty???

That thar chest be me sooper anya aaashun Maa'en me lad, Aaaaaaarrrrrr!

Cheers

Kim

You obviously haven't paid the 15% tax on contributions and you're trying to hide same from the ATO.

SSSSHHHHHHH!

Too late mate, the ATO "Big Chest Squad" is onto you.

Oh no...not the BCS from the ATO! I had better POQ before the SOB's make me pay GST on my GDP

Cheers

Kim

    

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Tim,

Please save the side-offcuts (if any) from this billet.

I could use anything about 20" long, whatever width, as long as the piece is thick enough to resaw into 2 slices at back thickness. I'm a symmetry nut, and I have started looking for beautiful pieces that can be made into wedges for 3-piece guitar backs. In reality, they will be 4-piece backs, but the wedge piece will be bookmatched and so the back will appear to be 3-piece.

That means the offcut does not even have to be a rectangle! (It could already be a wedge shape.) Pieces that are quartersawn will yield great symmetrical bookmatched wedges. Another good possibility is a fingerboard blank with a defect that makes it too narrow for a fingerboard (that's where the curly Katalox came from.)

Thanks in advance!

Dennis

Here's an example in Cocobolo with a curly Katalox wedge:

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Dennis Leahy
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7th Sense Multimedia

Beautiful set Dennis, got a nice chevron going on there with the Katalox.

Cheers

Kim