Various Eucalyptus Species Burl Handle Blocks

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Various Aussie Eucalyptus Burl handle blocks.

2 York gum, 2 yellow mallee, 1 red mallee, 1 red morrel, 1 ribbed fruit mallee
I can provide botanical names if needed.
Feel free to request more pictures or info

Each block is approximately 5 3/4” x 1 7/8” x 1 1/4”

$25 each plus shipping
$150 for all 7 plus shipping

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Frederick I'd be interested in the Red Morrel, bottom right please.
 
Out of interest, do any of these woods ever show themselves in longer blanks? Like minimum 8 or 9 inches?
 
daveflutes said:
Out of interest, do any of these woods ever show themselves in longer blanks? Like minimum 8 or 9 inches?
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It may be worth using a afb spacer and adding to both ends with a second block of same wood if you absolutely cannot find your target length and decide you " must" make a flute out of -this- wood. Whichever wood that may be on that particular day.
 
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daveflutes said:
Out of interest, do any of these woods ever show themselves in longer blanks? Like minimum 8 or 9 inches?
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I can definitely track some down. I have an entire large tote of About 30 species of eucalyptus Burl I need to cut into to make bowls for my my collection. I can definitely get a few blanks that size out of some of them. I’ll keep my eye out for some also
 
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@Pops sorry this is the only picture I have available without going to the wood cave downstairs, but this is the red river gum block I have. Super curly, but not Burl. $20. Please let me know if this works for you. Want to confirm before I send total

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Friedrich9 said:
I can definitely track some down. I have an entire large tote of About 30 species of eucalyptus Burl I need to cut into to make bowls for my my collection. I can definitely get a few blanks that size out of some of them. I’ll keep my eye out for some also
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That would be great thanks. They're challenging to work but well worth it
 
2feathers Creative Making said:
It may be worth using a afb spacer and adding to both ends with a second block of same wood if you absolutely cannot find your target length and decide you " must" make a flute out of -this- wood. Whichever wood that may be on that particular day.
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Hiya, yes I've done a few flutes from pen blanks glued end to end. So long as the ends are clean and square it works out ok. I just need to make sure the finger holes are clear of the joins. Like you say it's for the woods where I just have to make a flute out of it! I'll still grab longer blanks when I can.
 
Yessir that'll do. We can't all be burly :) Shoot me a pm for the total. Thank you Frederick.
 
River Red gum and Red Morrell arrived yesterday. Amazing pieces. Thank you Frederick!
 
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Bill12035 said:
@Friedrich9 - Just an information question. The York gum, yellow mallee, red mallee, red morrel are all versions of Eucalyptus
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@Bill12035 hi, yes they are all in the Eucalyptus genus. There are about 700 species of Eucalyptus. Most of them are native to Australia. They can also cross pollinate with each other creating hybrids.
 
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Bill12035 said:
Thank you for the information. They have a lot of nice figure. Pretty wood.
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@Bill12035 No worries. Most of these are Burl so they got some extra figure to them. The River Red Gum is another Eucalyptus. Some species of Eucalyptus have been introduced to California and Airizona. I believe Flordia also. River red gum, red iron bark, and Tasmanian blue gum are the ones I know I’ve heard or seen out that way. Not sure what the reason for the introducing them was. Windbreakers maybe?
 
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@Bill12035 No worries. Most of these are Burl so they got some extra figure to them. The River Red Gum is another Eucalyptus. Some species of Eucalyptus have been introduced to California and Airizona. I believe Flordia also. River red gum, red iron bark, and Tasmanian blue gum are the ones I know I’ve heard or seen out that way. Not sure what the reason for the introducing them was. Windbreakers maybe?
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Fast growing wood for railway sleepers. They turned out to be too dimensionally unstable. That’s the story I was told. Someone on here probably knows better.
 
daniscool said:
Fast growing wood for railway sleepers. They turned out to be too dimensionally unstable. That’s the story I was told. Someone on here probably knows better.
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I have a few chunks from Northern California that have cracked & split in all directions! Made one bowl that turned out very nice though. Wood was dry and HARD! Chuck
 
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