Tassie Blackwood (fiddleback) being talked about UB forum

[kiwigeo]

Check out following thread on Ubeaut Forums. Tim or Bob you might want to get involved.

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au ... post923964

Cheers Martin

[kiwigeo]

IMHO this lovely wood needs to be "rescued".

[Kim]

Could not agree more the blind leading the blind?

[graham mcdonald]

One of you who can post on that forum should point out as loudly and forcefully as possible that to cut up blackwood into thin slices when its wet will just lead to potato chips. It will warp as you look at it as it comes off the saw. 1-2" thick chunks and leave them for a year per inch of thickness before even thinking about resawing

This timber should be saved!!!

graham

[Kim]

Yes Graham, that was sort of suggested early on the first page.

Unfortunately the bloke who now has the wood and the saw appears as if he is going to be foolish enough to try and keep all the people happy all of the time, even though most of them offering directions clearly have only enough knowledge to be dangerous. He will no doubt waste much to gain little and then those with their hands up now will be nowhere in sight when the time comes to make good with collecting their demands.

It's sad but you see this happen a lot. People see what a good set of tonewood sells for and immediately think to themselves, 'I will have me a bit of that!' and they begin to convert the log in their mind with the dollar signs rolling in their eyes. But most never stop to consider 'WHY' tonewood should demands such a high price in the first place, and sadly, by the time the hens roost, much has been wasted in giving a lesson to an opportunistic student who will never repeated the process again, not just because of the lack of gain, but because they still do not understand what went wrong, and that is because they have never understood the basic fundamentals of wood to begin with.

Nothing more dangerous than a fool with a tool.

Cheers

Kim

[Stephen Kinnaird]

Nothing more dangerous than a fool with a tool.


Kim

Kim, with your permission, I'll post that saying over every dangerous device in our shop.

(There will be some Blackwood sawed up here later on in the year!)

Steve

[sebastiaan56]

Nothing more dangerous than a fool with a tool.

Thats what my missus says.....

[Kim]

Go for it Steve

[Bob Connor]

Just to be a contrarian

I cut my Blackwood when it's reasonably wet (around 20%) and have had no problems with around 80 sets from 6 different trees.

Mind you most of it has been cut in the autumn so it will dry slowly over winter.

I've just cut 20 sets of Tassie Blackwood in the last week and am about to tackle 125 super feet of Otways stuff which was cut 3-4 months ago.

So I wouldn't discount it totally.

[Kim]

That was pretty much my advice Bob, break the log down into 2 to 3" thick billets, wax the ends, sticker and allow to settle out for a few month, then when it's a little more stable, resaw into sets and sticker out until completely dry.

Cheers

Kim