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Thread: Silky Oak Figure
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12th August 2005, 06:44 PM #1
Silky Oak Figure
Does anyone know which timbers exhibit the figure renown within silky oak apart from silky oak, forest oak, rose sheoak (Allocasuarina torulosa), flame sheoak, hairy oak (Allocasuarina inophloia)? Just wondering as I believe a blend of timbers with similar figure in furniture/boxes etc would look stunning and want to know what there is. From what I have above it almost looks like it is just an oak thing?? Any help appreciated. Maybe there is some useful literature out there or just a wealth of knowledge within this forum.
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Teejay
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12th August 2005, 07:21 PM #2
Only other wood that I know with a similar figure is NZ Rewarewa.
I dont know where you will get any outside NZ though?
http://generation-4.co.nz/specs/rewarewa.html
Cheers
Ian
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13th August 2005, 01:01 PM #3
I've got some pieces of beefwood which have the same lacey pattern as silky oak but in a very deep red. I made a couple of boxes from heavily patterned silky oak with beefwood inner rim and mitre feathers, the effect is, as you've guessed, very good. I must buy a digital camera! Fletty
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13th August 2005, 04:31 PM #4
American and European oak. I think it is an oak thing teejay, with aussie woods so named 'cause they resembled the northern hemisphere timbers. I think all casuarinas and grevilleas (silky oak, beefwood) have it. You also get something like it in some hakeas (needlewood), a desert wood, and apparently a wood called red tulip oak (genus tarrietia) from Queensland has it.
Tas oak aint got it. I think it got its name for marketing reasons.Rusty
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14th August 2005, 10:09 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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Plane tree (also called Lacewood).
Arron
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14th August 2005, 10:55 PM #6
Macadamia as well...
Jim
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15th August 2005, 01:27 PM #7
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16th August 2005, 08:57 AM #8
Thankyou everyone - this forum never fails to help. With this new knowledge I can feel an itch on my chainsaw trigger finger and a twitch in my eye for some more wood. Not that my shed can fit any more but there is treasure out there.
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Teejay
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17th August 2005, 11:45 PM #9
Dahm! AlexS beat me to the draw! Was going to say Banksia although to get in first its a grey wood in color which may or may not be able to coridinate with the oak... which if its like our sheoak ends up finished a nice golden color
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26th August 2005, 09:46 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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all this talk of lovely timber is making me drool, so how do i go about getting it, is it a matter of just cutting the sections off a dead tree, and when it comes to resawing is there a certtain way to cut something like a burl...
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27th August 2005, 10:47 AM #11
Cockatoo Creek Timbers up in Dundurrabin (near Ebor) have Allocasuarina torulosa (rose sheaok) in stock, kiln dried $3K a cube. I am not sure how much the freight would be.
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14th March 2019, 02:48 PM #12
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15th March 2019, 08:09 AM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Northern Silky Oak
Fishtail Oak
Crater Oak
Red Oak 2 varieties (not the american $h!t)
Meullers Oak
Red Tulip Oak
Brown Tulip Oak
White Tulip Oak
Caledoanian Oak 2 varieties
Pink Silky Oak
Brown Silky Oak
Thats not the full list of timbers showing a strong medullary ray pattern (ie oak grain) growing in the FNQ rainforest, just the ones that come to mind off the top of my head. Can you use them together?
B Murphy Blanket Box.jpg
Northern Silky and Red Oak used side by side in a blanket box by a customer of mine: looks okay to me.
Where to get these rare and obscure premium Australian species? .... ummm.... me.
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15th March 2019, 08:47 AM #14Senior Member
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Well, for anyone that's reading this 14 year old thread, I'd say one of the most obvious choices, not currently mentioned, is Beefwood - Grevillea striata.
My understanding of this timber is that it was, and still maybe is, used as a substitute for Silky Oak if the Silky Oak is coated with a sufficiently dark shellac.
The following Image is from the Ovolo Inchcolm Hotel located at 73 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, Brisbane. I believe that this is a mix of both Silky Oak & Beefwood, but I could be wrong. For anyone in or around Brisbane this place is well worth a look, it's very impressive.
Silky Oak Panelling.jpg
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