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What excites me.

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Three of my favourites grown in Australia I guess I could bore you with several hundred more but I just walked past these three scraps.

I wiped them with Organoil an Australian finish it nearly removed the colour detail from the Conkerberry, then the Grove timber Olive then relly special brown mallee.

Watching all the man made coloured pens I have an arsenal timber that I love.

OK pics not ideal etc walk past flash.

Peter.
 

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I understand you are excited, Peter!
Is it the same olivewood as the one we have in southern old Europe? It is very similar...
The wow orange conkerberry should lead you to beauties, and it is big enough to play with the angle of the grain and with the sapwood... Is this beautiful colour stable?
I recently got a big parcel of aussie woods, and I'm playing with brown mallee, a pleasure!
 

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I understand you are excited, Peter!
Is it the same olivewood as the one we have in southern old Europe? It is very similar...
The wow orange conkerberry should lead you to beauties, and it is big enough to play with the angle of the grain and with the sapwood... Is this beautiful colour stable?
I recently got a big parcel of aussie woods, and I'm playing with brown mallee, a pleasure!

I was given free range yrs ago in a disused Olive Grove of 60 yr trees that had been polled at 8 feet yrs later grain was hard to find but I cut most of 3/4 of aton and brought it home a few hundred miles. Of course the Olive would be a derivative of what commercial growers would seek after, certainly one time from Europe.

Conkerberry occupies a very special place in my reckoning,a bush tree that only grows a few metres in rough tough territory in the nth of Australia. The termites love it just as much. To me it is beautiful. The colour is firm, in our summer sun it fades but when cut and used comes up again. I have seen it up to a foot across that timber would be hundreds of yrs old and mostly eaten out right up the middle. I try for cross grain mostly only get two piece pens this way.

I totally agree Brown Mallee is fantastic it can be a bear to photograph sometimes in bowls. Stunning grain.

Peter.
 

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Mark and I are enjoying his visit off touring around. Saturday he gets to see the finished Burl etc I have photographed before the Hand Made mob will be here from interstate. I will take him to my Burl Getting Mates place usually about 20 ton of burl there.

Peter.
 
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