rogue60
Here For The Long Haul!
I made this coffee table many moon's ago out of Red Ironback and I used it for many year's..
But it was forgotten and no longer needed and has sat outside for many years neglected.
I am trying to get some life and color back into it and use it once again.
Sanding it I see I signed it when I made it in 1998!
And yes I'm just an amateur at making thing's out of timber.
So far it's cleaning/sanding up nice I'm not going all out just trying to get it to a usable state again.
I cut this timber on a bench way back then not a chainsaw mill.
It's slow growing timber Red Ironbark and not uncommon for it to last about 100 years out in the open as in
fence posts and the like even the sapwood is class one durability which just means the sapwood is as durable as true hardwood.
Counting the growth rings on the inch top boards looks to be over 20ish pluse years for an inch of growth on this particular log.
Will post pics when I'm done it's slow going so far it's so hard am using up sanding discs at a rapid rate! Lol...
But it was forgotten and no longer needed and has sat outside for many years neglected.
I am trying to get some life and color back into it and use it once again.
Sanding it I see I signed it when I made it in 1998!
And yes I'm just an amateur at making thing's out of timber.
So far it's cleaning/sanding up nice I'm not going all out just trying to get it to a usable state again.
I cut this timber on a bench way back then not a chainsaw mill.
It's slow growing timber Red Ironbark and not uncommon for it to last about 100 years out in the open as in
fence posts and the like even the sapwood is class one durability which just means the sapwood is as durable as true hardwood.
Counting the growth rings on the inch top boards looks to be over 20ish pluse years for an inch of growth on this particular log.
Will post pics when I'm done it's slow going so far it's so hard am using up sanding discs at a rapid rate! Lol...
