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Thread: Palm tree pods.
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2nd October 2012, 01:30 AM #1Senior Member
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Palm tree pods.
I guess you wouldn't really call this woodwork but if you have palm trees with pods falling off they can make quite nice display pieces
if you get a nice shaped one. I found this one on the side of the road about a week ago and it was a nice shape but split, so I glued it, sanded it, cut
it back a bit and stained and varnished it. Made some little feet so it didn't rock around. The wife did the rest.
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2nd October 2012, 08:19 AM #2Skwair2rownd
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Good idea!!
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2nd October 2012, 08:46 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Innovative choice of material.
Wood? I believe, with all my heart, that if you hit me with it, it would feel quite woody.
Certainly took a good finish.
Texture/consistency: could it take some relief carving or scroll-saw cut-outs?
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2nd October 2012, 10:23 AM #4Intermediate Member
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golly, that's really beautiful.
i have a couple of dozen of these palm pods that i was going to do something like this with some day but never got around to it.
if anybody wants some, let me know
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2nd October 2012, 12:12 PM #5
Yes this is wood working, it's from a tree.
Loving it.
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2nd October 2012, 04:45 PM #6Senior Member
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Thanks for the comments guys, Markinoz, shame you don't live in Perth, I'd take some off your hands
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2nd October 2012, 05:10 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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I'm trying to conjure up some WA icons. Whale sharks. Pitcher plants. Devonian living corals (sorry, can't recall the name).
If these things seem odd to you, biologists all over the world would pick WA from what I've nominated.
I can't imagine relief carvings of much else.
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2nd October 2012, 05:49 PM #8Skwair2rownd
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3rd October 2012, 06:10 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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Thank you, artme.
In retirement, I have the luxury of forgetting things.
I've seen the fossils and pictures of the live stromatolites (sp?) at low tide.
The dish certainly did turn out well.
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3rd October 2012, 01:35 PM #10Senior Member
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RV, Let me jog your memory, Pinnacles, wave rock, Ningaloo reef where you find the best coral, whale sharks and manta rays to swim with. Then there's the wild flowers and black boys, or grass trees as we have to call them now. I could go on. I looked at the photo's of where you live and it looks just beautiful, natural and green. It's in stark contrast to our red dust and white sandy beaches, they don't call us sand gropers for nothing. You have the bears and wildcats to worry about, we have the sharks and snakes.