[Woodcarver] Re: Eucalyptus

[Edswood at aol.com]

Peter,
  Just read the email in which you mention the casuarina species.  I live in 
southwest Florida and the casuarina, (commonly called the Australian Pine 
here) is considered an invasive species and is being destroyed. This destruction 
leads to an easily obtained and cheap (free) species of wood for the carver.  
My question is this,do you know if this  wood has any desirable carving 
characteristics? I've avoided using any of the regular pine species found in this 
area because of poor carving characteristics but I've haven't messed with the 
casuarinas yet. Any info you can provide on this species would be appreciated.
Ed F.

I've been out of the carving circle for a while but am now back and going 
strong. I just posted some of my carvings on www.picturetrail.com/edswood and 
would appreciate some feedback on them from all you knowledgable carvers out 
there. Thanks
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/woodcarver/attachments/20041221/3862949c/attachment.html