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Bulloak

Post by blackalex1952 » Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:39 pm

Has anyone used Bulloak for fingerboards or back and sides...would it be tricky if not impossible to bend? Given the brittle grain
I'm wondering how serviceable it would be for a fingerboard. My "experiment" has shown me that fretting holds into this timber, but how about subsequent re frets and grain tear out during fret extraction...pretty exciting figure in Bulloak!....cheers! Ross
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Re: Bulloak

Post by blackalex1952 » Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:46 pm

Just to clarify I'm talking about the Buloke (my spelling mistake) Allocasuarina luehmannii...cheers! Ross
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Re: Bulloak

Post by Allen » Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:08 pm

I've used it for bindings at 0.070" and 5 mm tall. Don't recal it being a problem but the edges are extrememly sharp until rounded over. You could easily cut yourself on them.
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Re: Bulloak

Post by blackalex1952 » Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:06 pm

This I have experienced when milling....not to mention the splinters. I assume that the Aborigines made very effective weapons out of the stuff!
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Post by rocket » Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:53 pm

Yep ,,, got a build on atm,, Bull oak FB , very hard and thats what i want , nice figure and thats what i want,,,,,,,, as far as re fretting,, call me in 15, 20, 30 years???
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Re: Bulloak

Post by Julian » Tue May 16, 2023 10:19 am

I too have used buloke as a fretboard, it's stunning, and stunningly hard!
I slipped while filing the fret edges and nicked the top of a fret and so replaced it... The buloke is brittle! Even with chamfering the top edges of the fret slots prior to installing frets I still had decent chip out. A couple of the chips started 2.5 mm from the edge of the fret slot, not good, but wicking a bit of thin super glue beneath the chips and re-dressing the fretboard worked a treat.

You could probably make fret wire out of the buloke it's that hard!

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Re: Bulloak

Post by kiwigeo » Tue May 16, 2023 11:43 am

Julian wrote:
Tue May 16, 2023 10:19 am
You could probably make fret wire out of the buloke it's that hard!
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Re: Bulloak

Post by Julian » Mon May 22, 2023 12:32 pm

It's remarkable stuff, I used it as the centre strip on a neck that has it as the fretboard

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Re: Bulloak

Post by Julian » Mon May 22, 2023 12:35 pm

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