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25th February 2015, 08:53 PM #1
The world's only Cedar shed door.....
I'm gonna lay claim to the world's only Red Cedar shed door.
And if it's not, then the other one definitely doesn't have Mango root in it as well!
Here is the door as it was made from fence palings a few years ago.
Last week my next door neighbour told me they had some Toona australis offcuts that they were throwing out at his work. Some of them were quite long (couple of metres) but there was very little usable timber left on them. However, when laminated up into 15mm thick boards there was almost enough to cover the interior of the shed door. I covered the shortfall in the middle with a piece of Mango root that I purchased from Mapleman a while back.
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26th February 2015, 07:58 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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I cannot see the door, so it must be invisible....
Good to see recycling.
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26th February 2015, 08:38 AM #3
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26th February 2015, 08:38 AM #4
Looks great Brett...nice use of offcuts,and as for the Mango ,you are a decadent chap but crikey it looks good...well done FF,does you proud!...MM
Mapleman
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26th February 2015, 10:13 AM #5Skwair2rownd
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Good stuphph Brett!!!
All power to the recyclers of the world!!!
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26th February 2015, 01:23 PM #6
I think I prefer the old one!
regards
Nick
veni, vidi, tornavi
Without wood it's just ...
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26th February 2015, 02:42 PM #7
Well I am not even sure how to reply to that heading.
Although this comes to mind......
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26th February 2015, 03:10 PM #8.
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Looks good Brett!
BTW Red cedar is relatively widely used timber for shed/garage/workshop doors, and also window frames in North America.
The upstairs part of our house is clad mainly in red cedar and there was a fair bit of leftovers so I made a kennel for our previous dog but she never went inside it - might have been the odour?
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26th February 2015, 03:10 PM #9
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26th February 2015, 09:06 PM #10
Cheers Bob. Do you mean Western Red Cedar (particularly for the North Americans)? Seems the common botanical name (?) of WRC is Thuja plicata, and it's the one that smells like bananas.
Seems to be very durable under the sun etc, but I don't know about Toona australis. They used to use it for timber housing frames here (east coast) which is just a waste of excellent cabinet timber. I've seen antique furniture (a bookcase IIRC) that went for $100,000 20 years ago - it was made from solid Ta.
It seems that these days it is just known as Toona ciliata, but previously the Australian version was a recognised as a distinct species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toona_ciliata
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26th February 2015, 09:55 PM #11
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26th February 2015, 11:55 PM #12.
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