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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Cowan View Post
    Hi Ben. not sure where you are getting your info from, maybe its out dated. Ill post some pics of a great plantation in Nuhaka once I get hold of them.
    That's great to know, all the Paulownia I've seen have been as I described, a picture of a good plantation would be good to see. My trees are so totally outclassed by the good quality Eucalyptus spp I grow nearby that perhaps I'm just biased in views. I would imagine there would be some prime paulownia growing sites in Nuhaka, the trees really like horticultural quality sites with high summer moisture and no wind. Good fertility helps a lot too. Most of the trees planted around this way back in the day ended up on dry windy hillsides where (in hindsight) they had no chance of performing. We had the same problems with Robinia, that were sold to farmers as hardy trees which is true to a point, but actually only do any good in horticultural quality sites. Usually those best hort quality sites get used for something like kiwifruit with much higher returns than timber.

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    so are these the fast growing tree that has pink blossums not unlike wattle that fall all over the show making heck of a mess???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    so are these the fast growing tree that has pink blossums not unlike wattle that fall all over the show making heck of a mess???
    No, they have large purple inverted trumpet flowers in large clusters, smell good too. look up paulownia foliage. I think you might be thinking about Albizia julibrissian?
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    interesting,the seeds,roots and foilage suseptable to rot but not the timber...so maybe it is just the ticket for stock making.....now who was it that had that duplicater???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gibo View Post
    Scott check out the blade @hotbarrels on here made me. Its the shiznit for carving paulownia

    https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....-making-55651/
    So you haven't thrown it away in disgust then @Gibo ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hotbarrels View Post
    So you haven't thrown it away in disgust then @Gibo ?
    Mate its the gift that keeps on giving! Sneaky lick every 3 months on the 600grit and its razor edge again

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    Awesome work Gibo, and yeah a slicing blade is a great idea on this stuff. you must keep it sharp. my chisels are all too blunt to use on this timber...
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    all set for the wrap... just waiting till the resin gets tacky... nervous... no turning back now... should I have done a test?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Cowan View Post
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    all set for the wrap... just waiting till the resin gets tacky... nervous... no turning back now... should I have done a test?
    Have you had a play with teasing the dry carbon cloth around corners and such?
    Every machine is a smoke machine,
    If you use it wrong enough.

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    Na, just decided to go for it... and go for it I did. was a stressful evening to say the least... when my blood pressure returns to civility Ill post some more. its currently curing inside with the fire warmth. biggest issue was that the resin didnt tack up at the same rate. some was perfect, some too far dry with no stick and the odd patch still wet.
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    So I as said.. that didn't go smoothly. due to the forend not sticking I employed some superglue, and also at the odd patch that fibers wouldn't go down in joints. the tutorial used spray glue but I didnt have that... and given right down at the but under the bottom it was still wet I decided to gladwrap the whole thing and then insulation tape from top to bottom to try help the bond. then put it in a warm room to cure
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    I certainly needed to have some pressure under the butt to get it to hold down
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    the suspense! this was the scene in my lounge after a prayer and coffee time. priorities. a decaf coffee at that, the adrenaline last night was not flash with chest pains to boot. Me and adrenaline have a love/freakout relationship..., anyways I finished to wrapping at 10pm and by 1am I was calm enough to go to sleep lol. Now I have to head off to work.

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    Can't wait to see how it turned out.
    Be like unwrapping a Christmas present

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Cowan View Post
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    So I as said.. that didn't go smoothly. due to the forend not sticking I employed some superglue, and also at the odd patch that fibers wouldn't go down in joints. the tutorial used spray glue but I didnt have that... and given right down at the but under the bottom it was still wet I decided to gladwrap the whole thing and then insulation tape from top to bottom to try help the bond. then put it in a warm room to cure
    The white look is very russian snow camo.

    Possibly not much call for that up north though.
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