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| Author: | Daniel M [ Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Huon Pine |
A friend of mine just returned from a trip to Australia & Tasmania & brought back some lovely wood, including some rare Huon Pine. I'm wondering if any of you have used this wood for soundboards. The tops she showed me have a beautiful bearclaw figure. The tap tone is glassy & clear & the wood feels harder that hard Euro spruce. (thumbnail test) Grain count is in the high fifties, right across the board. Amazing wood! |
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| Author: | Alan Carruth [ Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Huon Pine |
If I had that, I'd run a couple of tests to find the density, damping, and the Young's modulus along and across the grain. Then it would be easy to compare it with 'the usual suspects' in a meaningful way. |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Huon Pine |
Huon is pretty nice stuff, but the real deal there is to try to find some of the ultra-rare King Billy pine. I checked out a number of samples of both when I was over in Tasmania last month, and the stuff that seemed to really have "it" with regard to tap tone was the King Billy. The Huon was a bit deader. |
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