Curl in Blackwood

[woodrat]

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine about fiddleback curl in blackwood. He put froward the thought that this figure may be genetic and therefore the reason that it does not appear in all trees. I was wondering what others thought about this possibility or maybe what other reason may cause it. A penny for your collective thoughts.

Here is a billet from a tree with very consistent tight curl throughout.

[Localele]

Due to my problems of late with this sort of thing You may as well send that billet up here and I'll attempt to fix it up with mine.No promises about getting it back .Cheers.

[Bob Connor]

It is indeed genetic.

In a typical logging coupe of 50 hectares there will generally be one fiddleback tree. So it's not at all that common.

A friend of mine in Tassie had some seed stock from curly Blackwood trees that he got from Forestry Tasmania and planted but the bloody possums ate all the seedlings.

He reckoned that they would get to instrument size in around 40 years.

[kiwigeo]

A friend of mine in Tassie had some seed stock from curly Blackwood trees that he got from Forestry Tasmania and planted but the bloody possums ate all the seedlings.

He reckoned that they would get to instrument size in around 40 years.

Give up on the trees.....get into possum skin hats.

[Bob Connor]

Dead right Martin.

Possums get to hat size in about 12 months.