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    Quote Originally Posted by Ross Nolan View Post
    Thanks Gents

    I'll go and have a good look at the tree, and proceed very carefully from there. I think a detail section in the middle of the table and possibly using it in the stretchers could be a good compromise.

    Fortunately I'm in no hurry.
    A thin overlay or insert, it’s a bugger it doesn’t burn, great for protecting water troughs though
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    I made a chair out of it once and coated it with a thick two pot resin that I have forgotten the name of, you see the same stuff on the swamp kauri clocks. It made the grain pop!

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    I've heard it is the NZ "ebony" in regards to hardness and difficulty to work. However it can be an awesome native timber for carving with some incredible grain according to a expert carver at work.

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    spoke to old woodwork mate table no likely to split usually used as small pieces of veneer very difficult to work with

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    I have seen it used for turning and carving, but it is prone to the surface feeling rough from what I understand.

    It does have incredible grain / flecking
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    Quote Originally Posted by NZBeeMan View Post
    I have seen it used for turning and carving, but it is prone to the surface feeling rough from what I understand.

    It does have incredible grain / flecking
    I worked with a wood that behaved like that, eventually I sealed it with Tung Oil then sanded to the finish surface. Took much longer but got a great finish in the end.

 

 

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