Timbers List - updated on 01/11/2021
PLEASE READIt may look a little confusing at the beginning but, is not really, you only need to remember that, I have allocated a numerical number to each wood species, as I collect them, is a lot easier to mark blanks with and identification number than the wood name, particularly if the blanks are store laying flat, the only thing exposed is the end-grain at one end so, that small space is just sufficient to mark with a number than with a name.The letters next to a number (normally in red) can indicate various things, the most common are the, Z for diagonal cut, X for cross cut, ST for straight cut, B for burl, SP for spalted, STB for stabilised, etc...!In general terms, a blank marked with a number only, means that the wood was cut with the grain/straight cut.
The timber species I have, (all species in the large mixed packs/one blank of each species
are, straight cut)
Pen blank size approx. 21mm square x 130mm long.
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1- Macrocarpa (Golden Cypress) limb/branch timber – X & Z cut
2- Macrocarpa (Golden Cypress)root/butt timber – X & Z cut
3- Pink/Rose Gum – X & Z – S/P (special)
4- Blue River Gum – X & Z
5- Yellow Gum – X & Z
6- Red Gum – X & Z
7- Spotted Gum trunk – – X & Z Spotted Gum Root (burl look) - #7R
8- Curly/Twisted Gum – X & Z
9- Colonial Red Gum (very dark brown) – X-Z -B (burl)-S(special)
10- Poplar – X & Z
11- Liquid Amber – X & Z
12- Willow – X & Z
13- Radiata Pine – X & Z,(BE birds eye),(RV resin veined),(Y&B yellow & Blue), (W white)
14- She/Bull-oak – X & Z
15- Holly Oak – X & Z
16- Black Wattle – 16a(heartwood, only),Dx(2 halves), X & Z , S/P (special)
17- Silver Wattle – X & Z
18- Golden Wattle – X & Z,S (stabilized), S/P, S/P-Z, S/P-X
19- Almond tree – X & Z – O (old wood), B (burl)
20- Wild olive (brighter yellows, less and light browns) – X & Z
21- Majestic Olive (A1++, A1, A2 grades) – X & Z
22- Old Olive Root (burl look a like)
23- Melaleuca – X & Z
24- Cork tree – X & Z
25- Knotty (knotted) Pine – X & Z
26- Platypus Gum – X & Z, B (burl)
27- White Wattle (not Silver Wattle) – X & Z
28- Flame wood - ST(straight cut, only)
29- Lucerne Tree - ST(straight cut, only)
30- Bottle Brush trunk/limbs and Root(Banksia sub-species)-B/T/R
31- Palm Tree - ST(straight cut, only)
32- Orange Acacia (Tulipwood look a like) – X & Z
33- Tortuosa/CorkScrew Willow (AKA BT)– X & Z, B(blue), N(new cut), O(old cut), BL(burl)
34- Toona Tree – Australia Cedar (aged) – X & Z
35- ST (Small Tree)– X & Z not yet identified…!
36- Cootamundra Wattle– X & Z
37- Australian Pear Tree (planted in 1890) – X & Z
38- Australian White Gum – X & Z
39- Australian Eucalyptus Peninsularis (oil producer) – X & Z
40- Australian Ash – X & Z
41- Australian Cherry Plum – X & Z
42- Camphor Laurel tree wood– X & Z
43- White Ironbark – Eucalyptus leucoxylon (Yellow Gum sub-species)– X & Z
44- South Australia Shiraz red Vine wood (approx. 40 years old)
45- Banksia “Hairy” pods (from my own yard)
46- Australian Lady Apple tree – X & Z
47- Stone Acacia (very old wood) – X & Z
48- Tasmanian Blue Gum
49- Australian Casuarina tree (She Oaks family)
50- Australian Apricot Tree wood (old fruit tree)
51- Australian Silky-Oak wood (old wood) – X & Z
52- Australian Walnut tree (from a local ex-walnut farm) – X & Z
53- Australian Blackwood tree (found locally) – X &Z
54- Australian Peach wood (old fruit tree)
55- Australian Mulberry – X & Z
56- Australian Grevillia bush – X & Z
57- Australian Peppercorn tree – X & Z
58- Norfolk Pine tree – X & Z
59- Australian Cypress (aged) – X & Z
60- American Oak (from barrels used by local winery to cure Port) – X & Z
61- French Oak (from barrels used by local winery to cure Port) – X(slightly shorter)& Z
62- Australian Fig tree wood – X & Z
63- Earleaf Acacia– X & Z
64- Acacia Acuminate (Raspberry jam tree)
65- Australian Sugar Gum
66- Australian Swamp Mallet Gum tree – – X & Z
67- Carob tree wood– X & Z
68- Pine Bark
69- Japanese Flowering tree – X & Z
70- Coral tree– X & Z
71- Australian Prune tree wood – X & Z
72- Australian Granny Smith Apple tree wood (aged) – X & Z
73- White wood (not yet identified…!)–X & Z
74- Australian McIntosh Apple tree wood– X & Z
75- Australian Lemon tree wood
76- Australian SA Ironwood (not yet identified…!)
77- Loquat tree wood (old tree from town next door)
78- Scarlet Kunzea shrub wood (Australian-WA native, lived next door/in town)
79- CotonEaster Berry tree (AKA-Red fruit small bunches tree )
80- Small green fruit/nut tree (not yet identified)
81- Eucalyptus Dura
82- Australian Rock-Oak (#49 Casuarina relative)
83-Tasmanian Oak-burl
84- Beakpod Eucalyptus
85- Chinaberry tree wood
86- Scribbly Gum
87- Red Ironbark
88- Brown Mahogany
89- Dwarf Cypress (ornamental small cypress tree)
90- Tree of Haven
91- Ivory white tree wood (not yet identified)
92- Lilly-Pilly tree wood
93- Greenish tree wood (not yet identified
94- Live-Oak tree wood
95- Australia Red Oak (recently identified)
96- Japanese Elm tree
97- Brown Mallee ROOT burl
98- Red Mallee ROOT burl
99- Pheasant wood (recycled)
100-