Some ozzie timbers

[Penpal]

I have a friend coming to visit me in the next while from overseas,these one piece pen blanks are for him. The exercise for us is how to name stray timber, I am guessing but I have a couple of hundred more to test anyone out. This is not the reason but here they are named and not named in the same order.

Peter.:wink:

 

[flexi]

Some really nice pieces there.....i do love some of the names too

 

[bigbob]

Lovely blanks. Wonder if the Dorrigo oak is named after Dorrigo near Coffs harbor was out there a few years ago and went to Danger falls.

 

[Penpal]

Yes it is,we have family in Coffs Harbour. Dorrigo is in timber country,steep hilly and winding road.

Peter.

 

[crazylegs]

What about a group buy ? Get your relative to send some over.

 

[Penpal]

These are getting to the last of two hundred I bought for a member in the UK he renigged on them, all so badly bitten I will not get involved in any buys.

Peter.

 

[Bill Mooney]

 

[wm460]

Great blanks Peter.

Bob, A lot of trees in Aust have local names from that area, some where else a different tree will have the same name.
I have 3 or 4 types of black wattle, all different tree.

Lovely blanks. Wonder if the Dorrigo oak is named after Dorrigo near Coffs harbor was out there a few years ago and went to Danger falls.

Alloxylon pinnatum is most commonly known as the Dorrigo Waratah, though it is also variously called the Dorrigo oak, Red silky oak, Tree Waratah, Pink Silky oak, Red oak, Queensland Waratah, and the Waratah oak. Alloxylon, like the better known Sydney Waratah (Telopea speciosissima ) belongs to the Proteaceae family.

Alloxylon pinnatum - Growing Native Plants

 

[Dalboy]

Great blanks Peter.

Bob, A lot of trees in Aust have local names from that area, some where else a different tree will have the same name.
I have 3 or 4 types of black wattle, all different tree.



Alloxylon pinnatum is most commonly known as the Dorrigo Waratah, though it is also variously called the Dorrigo oak, Red silky oak, Tree Waratah, Pink Silky oak, Red oak, Queensland Waratah, and the Waratah oak. Alloxylon, like the better known Sydney Waratah (Telopea speciosissima ) belongs to the Proteaceae family.

Alloxylon pinnatum - Growing Native Plants

NO wonder you poor old Aussies are a confussed lot can you remember what you call a shed and more inportant can you remember where it is, and no it is not the little building with a seat and paper roll hanging from the wall or should that be news paper

 

[Penpal]

Thats a dinkum Dunny,c/w red back spiders under the seat. When I was a kid there were out in the back yard Dunnies, this allowed the night soil removal via lanes in Melbourne and Sydney.

Peter.

 

[Penpal]

All trees all over the world have local and botannical names ,it was ever thus. these blanks mostly came from a member of the World Wood Collectors group inclined to be pedantic about naming timber.

Peter.

 

[Bammer]

Some really nice pieces there.....i do love some of the names too

I liked the Highly Figured Maple Silkwood ...... what if you found a piece that was more figured .... it could be called

Even More Highly Figured Maple Silkwood ....

Conkerberry made me smile

 

[wm460]

Thats a dinkum Dunny,c/w red back spiders under the seat. When I was a kid there were out in the back yard Dunnies, this allowed the night soil removal via lanes in Melbourne and Sydney.

Peter.

Like that here till the 70's, there is a few still standing.

 

[bigbob]

Yes it is,we have family in Coffs Harbour. Dorrigo is in timber country,steep hilly and winding road.

Peter.

Hi Peter I visited and stayed with friends of my Mothers at Macksville near Coffs Harbor back in 2011 they took us out for a trip round the hills country at Dorrigo. I remember we had diner in the Dorrigo hotel then headed up to Danger falls it was a lovely day out. I have had dinner several times at the RSL club at Coffs harbor.