The wounded oak looks both natural and great.
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Made some Scorchers in Jarrah with maple inlay and spotted gum with purpleheart inlay.
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Simply stunning. True art. Nice work!!! 
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Made a walnut Harbinger today.
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Made an Australian blackwood Harbinger tonight.
The wood is like Australia’s answer to walnut.
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The color on that wood is stunning. I love it.
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I posted about my AWESOME wooden unresponsive Glen made me a while back:
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Made this yoyo out of some mystery wood today.
I have no idea what it is, but it’s REALLY hard and dense. I have never turned a wood that has blunted my tools so quickly!
It was made from old wood from school benches that my father in law was using for firewood.
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That looks SUPER familiar, but I can’t place what it is. That’s going to bug me the rest of the day now.
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It looks South-East Asian to me. It has that splintery, brittle, open grain and lots of silicates like other SA timbers. I can’t identify it. Wood is extremely difficult to identify.
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It kind of reminds me of lacewood, but don’t think it’s that.
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Yeah it’s definitely not lacewood. I’ve done some research and I’ve concluded that it most likely grey ironbark, which is commonly used for hard-wearing outdoor applications like school benches here in Australia.
It has a janka rating of 3664 lbf. To give you a better idea, purpleheart is super hard and has a janka rating of about 2500 lbf.
That is outrageously hard! 
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Turned @Myk_Myk a merbau Harbinger yesterday. I gave it a hand-turned spotted gum axle instead of the standard walnut. It’s about 2.5 times harder than walnut and impossible to scorch.
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I finally got around to making a few new Curriers
These are going up on YoYo Expert pretty soon!
Purple Heart body and caps:
Maple Body, Purple Heart Caps w/ brass inlay:
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The quality of your work is top-notch, Luke. These look excellent!
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Love the look of the brass inlay
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Started turning a Harbinger out of a piece of Kapur that is one half brown and the other pink. Looks like icecream.
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As someone who loves harbingers AND ice cream, I am on board
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