Lucky Find

[ozwood]

I was away on Hols over Chistmas / New Years , up in Gods country , early one morning I was getting supplies at the near by town and spied a Timber Yard , I was on my own, so I thought I'd drop in and see what they had, I was greated by a friendly and down to earth bloke who was happy to help , I asked what kind of timbers they stocked, he rattled of a list that included tassie myrtle , Cedar , WRC and NGR so I asked if I could have a poke around , he said sure , but he would have to stay with me so we headed out to the racks , he showed me some slabs , most were Flat or back sawn, I quizzed him about the Myrtle, because I have been keen to get some plain Myrtle , I like the look of it , but all the stuff he showed me was Flat sawn , I asked him if he had anything Quarter sawn in Myrtle , he pointed to a Slab down the Bottom of the rack that looked Like they had been there for 20 years , it was about 75 mm thick , 220mm wide and about 2400 long , He said I would not want that as when He last sold some, cut from that log the customer returned it because it had black spots and streaks through it so I said I might be keen if the price was right , lets Just say the price was right and when John ( The Woodrat) and I looked at the end grain during my visit it looked like it had potential. Due to the fact it was in the Woodrats territory I did the polite thing and left half for him I also got to see his brazillian , and I had a look at his Guitar as well it sounds as good as it looks , I enjoyed my visit with John it was great to catch up ,Johns Dad makes a mean Cuppa , and the place is in the middle of God's country I also picked up a few handy pointers , and some wood .........as you do when you visit the Woodrat

Cheers,

[Ormsby Guitars]

I also got to see his brazillian

hmmm

[woodrat]

I also got to see his brazillian

hmmm

...er ...Brazilian.... rosewood that is! ....from the inner sanctum of the 'Rat Hole....

...yes had a nice morning with Paul talkin' all things lutherie for a while ...'twas good!


John

[Nick]

Great find indeed Paul! & I hope when negotiating a price that you stressed you'd be doing the guy a favour by taking such ugly, and obviously flawed, wood off of his hands
When you said you'd been in gods country I thought you'd paid a visit to New Zealand but reading on it was obviously not & must have just been his holiday home
I'm sure oggling John's Brazillian must have been a sight for you and I reckon a cuppa would have been the least you'd need after seeing that (I won't ask you if you smelt it )!

[ozwood]

Great find indeed Paul! & I hope when negotiating a price that you stressed you'd be doing the guy a favour by taking such ugly, and obviously flawed, wood off of his hands

He could not beleive I wanted to buy a peice of myrle flawed with black spots and streaks , and I could not beleive he did not now what Tiger Myrtle was , lets say it was a win, win for both of us.

I'm sure oggling John's Brazillian must have been a sight for you and I reckon a cuppa would have been the least you'd need after seeing that (I won't ask you if you smelt it )!

I did smell it Nick , it just smelt like really old wood , that had not been touch in a couple of hundered years!

Cheers,

[Nick]

I did smell it Nick , it just smelt like really old wood , that had not been touch in a couple of hundered years!

Cheers,

I've smelt John's wood too , great stuff & I'm just glad he shared it with us.

[Tod Gilding]

Bloody novocastrian raiding party, Coming up to our country and raiding our wood stocks

The Myrtle should have been declared and surrended at the Taree border gate on your way out

[ozwood]

The Myrtle should have been declared and surrended at the Taree border gate on your way out

What side of Taree ? , I might get of on a technicality here!

Cheers,

[Tod Gilding]

No Chance of getting out of this one Paul, We have you all on film coming across the Hunter River.....clearly on the North Side. Ya gone mate.

[woodrat]

....Raiders of the Last Myrtle....Paul is obviously one of the ringleaders, there he is out the front with the shiny helmet!

[Nick]

What timbers have you used in your sheild there Paul? Ones Blackwood I can see that but the yellow-ish one?? Hope your pike was nice and sharp & the shaft made of good quality Yew, not a good look for a raiding party if you have to go home in the first five minutes to re-glue yer pike!

The raiding party advance swiftly from the muddy banks of the mighty Taree. This party of marauding villians, evil intent oozing from every pore. They are led by the fearless "Paul the Ozwood" a grizzled & battle scarred fighter accrued from many years of hard campaigns and timber yard battles over the best bits of Blackwood & Queensland Maple. As these foreign raiders advance they spot a small party of enemy peasants quietly going about their business, sorting through a wood pile, discarding some of the "inferior" Myrtle because it bears the mark of the dreaded black spot and also stripes resembling the arse wipe marks of passing grizzly bears. The scene infuriates the raiders such that they set upon the poor hapless peasantry with their menacing & deadly pikes. Paul runs through a witless & clearly underfed Timber merchant in order to gain the "inferior" timber he holds in his gnarled & boney hand, the pike easily piercing this poor gent and cleaving every organ as it passes through finally coming to rest on the timber merchant's spine.
Having hastily whipped up his pike with the only timber he had in his stocks at the time,plantation grown Indian Rosewood (stolen from the StewMac tribe on one of his earlier raids), the snap of the shaft informed Paul the Ozwood that he had indeed chosen the wrong timber! An eerie silence suddenly filled the slaughter grounds as the party of hardy warriors all stopped fighting, a look of horror filling their faces as they looked aghast at their leader, the shattered remains of his now useless pike still gripped firmly in his hand.
"Um........ Shit sorry about this fellas. Um, thought I'd get away with some flatsawn stuff, obviously not. We'll have to call this raid off until I've had time to re-glue me pike. I've got most of the bits here so I reckon if we whip home now & with a bit of Titebond and a couple of clamps she'll be as good as new."

[ozwood]

What timbers have you used in your sheild there Paul? Ones Blackwood I can see that but the yellow-ish one?? Hope your pike was nice and sharp & the shaft made of good quality Yew, not a good look for a raiding party if you have to go home in the first five minutes to re-glue yer pike!

The raiding party advance swiftly from the muddy banks of the mighty Taree. This party of marauding villians, evil intent oozing from every pore. They are led by the fearless "Paul the Ozwood" a grizzled & battle scarred fighter accrued from many years of hard campaigns and timber yard battles over the best bits of Blackwood & Queensland Maple. As these foreign raiders advance they spot a small party of enemy peasants quietly going about their business, sorting through a wood pile, discarding some of the "inferior" Myrtle because it bears the mark of the dreaded black spot and also stripes resembling the arse wipe marks of passing grizzly bears. The scene infuriates the raiders such that they set upon the poor hapless peasantry with their menacing & deadly pikes. Paul runs through a witless & clearly underfed Timber merchant in order to gain the "inferior" timber he holds in his gnarled & boney hand, the pike easily piercing this poor gent and cleaving every organ as it passes through finally coming to rest on the timber merchant's spine.
Having hastily whipped up his pike with the only timber he had in his stocks at the time,plantation grown Indian Rosewood (stolen from the StewMac tribe on one of his earlier raids), the snap of the shaft informed Paul the Ozwood that he had indeed chosen the wrong timber! An eerie silence suddenly filled the slaughter grounds as the party of hardy warriors all stopped fighting, a look of horror filling their faces as they looked aghast at their leader, the shattered remains of his now useless pike still gripped firmly in his hand.
"Um........ Shit sorry about this fellas. Um, thought I'd get away with some flatsawn stuff, obviously not. We'll have to call this raid off until I've had time to re-glue me pike. I've got most of the bits here so I reckon if we whip home now & with a bit of Titebond and a couple of clamps she'll be as good as new."

Did not even make it that Far Nick, stood in some Qld Walnut and had to take my Boot off and wash it in the MANNING RIVER (Todd) the yellow part of My sheild is some premium Soundboard material called Huon Pine , sourced from a transvestite taswegian I like to call Jobob.

That's Funny, I had a good belly laugh.

[Tod Gilding]

You can laugh and bare your butt all you like Paul but The Great King Wood Rodent of the north coast has ordered his army south to track down and bring back the heads of all Novocastrian wood raiders.

However If you send me the Tiger Myrtle I may be able to work something out for you

[ozwood]

However If you send me the Tiger Myrtle I may be able to work something out for you

you can take our flatswan rosewood , but you'll never take our Tiger Myrtle!!!.

[kiwigeo]

Those spikey helmeted w***kers had better not be heading for Adelaide.

[Nick]

Those spikey helmeted w***kers had better not be heading for Adelaide.

Because of all the bushfires currently ravaging Australia, all land attacks have been called off until further notice but keep your eyes peeled for these fella's Martin

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Better prepare the stash against "Paul the Ozwood" & sea attack!.....By the way, I had heard tell that he now has a gleaming new shaft of Queensland Maple on his Pike, the IRW was too oily to re-glue successfully apparently, bloody shit quality plantation Rosewood .