yellow Heart

[clooneskert wood]

Hello folks

Has anyone used yellow heart lumber.

I bought a load of beams and never looked closely

and have found when I started milling them they are

yellow heart. Oh god it was so so hard. but got it milled.

Has anyone any ideas of what to use it for.

Have 8" square and 8' long and other lenghts.

Its fab timber.

Liam::

[se7enthdevil]

can i see some pics of the grain...

 

are you sure its yellow heart, Euxylophora paraensis...

 

i didnt think we imported those sort of logs???

 

 

 

 

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[Bren.]

Had some abandoned by a reclaim merchant, he gave use permission to take it as it was knackered for reuse. Went and spent a couple of weekends cutting it. It is, without doubt, the hardest wood I have ever come across.

Took 4 chains and still had to spend ages sharpening.

[Copford sawmill sussex]

We cut a makuba I think it was yellow timber and were changeling the saw blade every 3m!!! Found out a local musical instrument maker cuts it with metal bandsaw blades!

 

Might be worth talking to instrument makers maybe?