Playing With Red Gum

Red Gum: Corymbia calophylla a crazy fun wood from Australia!
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[@RareGem369]

This is the most sought after wood here in Australia. Very good quality wood. And comes up beautifully varnished!👌🏽

[@jpanic7677]

When you live and try and woodwork in Australia. "It's very dense and a lot of fun." Australian... "Oh God I'm just trying to make something without everything going to hell and having to sharpen every 10 passes of a plane" We'd die for this "poplar" we hear speak of

[@zacdredge3859]

We do have native species of pine, cyprus and ash, as well as she-oaks(not true oaks but they're a similar hardwood); much easier to work with. In saying that Red Gum is still on the low end of hardness in terms of our commercially available hard woods, then there's the rare accacia's which are said to break chisels at 5 paces...

[@Expedient_Mensch]

Yer, let's send him a few bits of aged Ironbark or Jarrah sleeper.

[@jpanic7677]

Australians: "WE HAVE TO MAKE WHOLE THINGS OUT OF THIS TYPE OF WOOD"

[@murraypotts924]

This is one of the local timber I use often along with jarrah and black butt and sheoak. Reverie grain is common in red gum and also a lot of relatively new regrowth local timber that we are getting now. For hand planning I use vertas bevel up planes with 40 degrees blade angle plus the bed angle of 12 degrees cutting angle 52 degrees. And throat angle at about 3/32" . It took me a while to come to this but now I am there I can plane against the grain without tear out. One thing about these woods is how well they polish up. Going to 400 grit then an oil a wax finish. Pure tung oil is best as linseed oil will darken the wood a fair amount. Love your channel.

[@yetanotherbloke]

Ah redgum! The dedicated among us make some beautiful things out of it. Really gnarly trees. I was once canoeing on the Murray River up on the New South Wales / Victorian border. We pulled up for lunch and casually sat on a redgum log. It was only after I'd finished lunch that I realised it was a fallen branch 6ft+ diameter and there was plenty more fallen (er) "branches". The tree that it came off was still standing and must have been ancient. It was huge and twisted. We hustled out of there pretty quickly. Now I've finished my story James, you'd better go sharpen your tools again! Apparently the high silica content prevents them from rotting when the area floods.

[@alejandrocantu4652]

In the 1880's California import different eucalyptus seedlings plaanted to grow for use as railroad ties. Now it grow like a weed everywhere. People cut it for firewood and now using for flooring.

[@Xiao_PP]

I like how with wood one mans ordinary is another's extraordinary.

[@dano4700]

Yep, for me walnut and maple, while available is exotic and very expensive. 👍🇦🇺

[@zacdredge3859]

We used to use redgum as firewood in the house I grew up in; burns very slow and kept our house warm in winter nights. Not to say I wouldn't work with it though, haha. If you really want a challenge you could move up to Spotted Gum(which has beautiful contrast to it) or even torment your tools with Ironbark or Greybox.

[@Hudson4426]

Finished a set of winding sticks in padauk with figured maple inlays and brass accents... they turned out spectacular. My wife on the other hand said “you made sticks” 😂

[@WoodByWright]

LOL yup that is the way it works!

[@andrewgarratt5191]

😂👍🏽

[@RobinLewisMakes]

So cool to see our woods being showcased. I use corymbia tessellaris often, also a beautiful wood

[@WoodByWright]

I love playing with new woods whenever possible.

[@andrewgarratt5191]

I’m a carpenter 1st... “Woodworker” 2nd.... Building a HUGE barn for the owner of the local strip joint we cut down ALOT of Gum trees....he had to pay extra to have them milled as the local boys did not even want to run it through their machines.... They came back green,16’, the 2”x12”s took 3 men to carry, “stout men!” all 3 grunting! I clicked this video just to see what I already know,someone is fixing to have a day far more difficult than it should be. My employer sent me to the bundle to give him an estimate on a gun cabinet made out of the stuff, I took a plane,a draw knife,and a skill saw to test the stuff... It took me 3 minutes to call him up and say: “Not a F’n chance in hades!” That stuff is a nightmare ! 😏 and having a sense of humor the guy came out one day with 10 $100 bills, Offered it to any man who could sink a 16 penny nail in one of the culls in one hit..... I have to admit it was fun watching the laborers hastily mutilate their fingers attempting the absolutely impossible. To hell with the gum tree! You good sir are bold and masochistic. Hats of to ya! 😂😁👍🏽 Now I’ll click play and watch your inevitable pain.

[@georgescott6967]

The description says Corymbia calophylla. It is more likely to be Eucalyptus camaldulensis - river red gum which has a red coloured wood. As others have said it is used for railway sleepers (now replaced with concrete), house stumps (now concrete too), fence posts and fire wood. It has, I think, a relatively short fibre which makes it break relatively easily when flexed, so no good for handles for hammers, axes, spades etc.

[@chriselop9121]

In Australia we call red gum 'wood', 'hard wood' is what we call the harder timbers.

[@dpmeyer4867]

thanks

[@tap1799]

Another good to watch video with no gimmicks thank you. There is something very nice about you.

[@WoodByWright]

Thanks Brad I'll keep them coming

[@tap1799]

@@WoodByWright lol who tf is Brad lol I know nice is a horrid word but there is something very relaxing about your vids and your obvious love of the craft is inspiring. Most people try too hard and being anti machine your style suits what I want to learn. I am later in life and am thinking of going into this full time.

[@stuartwoodcock9780]

This type of Redgum comes from Western Australia, about a 4 day drive from where I live over in South eastern Australia. I work with Grey Box, Blackbutt and White cypress. It really is great stuff to work with.

[@dano4700]

What do you make?🇦🇺👍

[@stuartwoodcock9780]

@@dano4700 ive made a mallet and a low roman work bench and halfway yhrough some saw handles

[@dano4700]

Cool, thanks for replying. I made some mallets from Jarrah, so hard I can bang nails in with them.😀

[@johnhunter1262]

It also comes from Victoria. We have it on our farm. It also makes great firewood as it leaves no ash. Cheers

[@RareGem369]

Plenty of red gum in Victoria! 👌🏽

[@trevorbaudinette4706]

I have a couple of turning tools handle made from fiddle back redgum ,beautiful looks great with polished brass ferrules( a found tree stake) and a carving mallet turned from a solid piece of redgum. (firewood) I grew up in an area where our bank counters and pub bars were made from huge slabs of red gum. I also had an uncle that used blocks of redgum as bearings for a 2 inch shaft on a huge land roller that was towed behind a tractor still going strong .

[@MCsCreations]

Beautiful, James! Really nicely done!!! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

It’s always fun to putter around with a new material

[@virtuosooo]

Lol when you were drilling into the end of the piece I started thinking "I was doing that the other day and I split the damn wood" a second later you hear a snap! And next thing you know, a clamp is on it! Made me smile to know im not the only one doing it.

[@WoodByWright]

Lol yup. I'm always forgetting to clamp the small pieces.

[@rhodrison]

We got so much redgum here mate, entire slabs for less than $100 AUD, you would have a field day

[@Expedient_Mensch]

Red gum slabs like to crack when the weather vane moves, needs lots of relief cut into the back of each slab to prevent it.

[@SkyForgeVideos]

Similar density to blood wood. Looks beautiful! My tip for drilling holes, is to drill a small pilot hole with a twist bit first to get the centering right, then progressively widen to the correct dimension. It's easier on the wood because it doesn't have to tear the fibers apart at the middle of the hole, or drill out the full amount of material to get through. Plus if you get the tiny twist bit centered and through, then you can drill from either end to head off the tear out before it happens. Same with scoring the wood. Lol I always forget to do that, and just mark the piece with pencil and start cutting. I have developed my sawing technique to compensate and get less chip outs, but I have to force myself to remember the proper technique is to score first!

[@WHITTLE74]

Aussie hard wood is next level, it so dense

[@chrisformosa4027]

Bro red gum is practically a weed where I live that and iron bark

[@DesmaraisChris]

I just sawed a large red gum on my sawmill. I’m trying to decide what will be best to make from the lumber. I’ve got lots of thick blocks and 4 quarter through six quarter material. A few 8 quarter slabs too

[@trueblue862]

I’m currently building a pair of English style field gates out of blue gum, it’s even harder than red gum. Fun is not a term that comes to mind too often when working on them. What I would give to be able to get my hands on some nice, soft and easy to work oak.

[@gnomad42]

Glad you enjoyed Aussie spotted red gum. Try and find some Kwilla or Merbau from Western Australia. Most decks in Australia made in the last 15 years are made from these as they are so hard-wearing in the outdoor environment.

[@WoodByWright]

Some day I will play with some.

[@patfinnerty1115]

You should now try some spotted gum (boat builders love it) a little ironbark and some mallie to all beautiful. But not so good as your hard woods for glueing.We also have some beautiful soft woods like Hewin Pine and King Billy Pine. Fine job not an easy wood to work thank you for all your video

[@stevensrspcplusmc]

It sounds like your filing steel.👍😊

[@WoodByWright]

feels like it too.

[@wrongtown]

@@WoodByWright Yup every time I hear you folks talking about your maple, cherry and walnut I look at our native hardwoods and swear 😅

[@dgoddard]

That was fun to watch.

[@WoodByWright]

Congrats on first!

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

@@WoodByWright how many times have you goobered up your finger with that marking gauge? I see pain possibilities

[@WoodByWright]

I actually don't think I've ever cut my finger with a marking gauge. I've cut it with a lot of other things in the shop but never a marking gauge.

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

@@WoodByWright I just get nervous when there’s a sharp object under tension close to a meaty appendage

[@dt2419]

Seems weird but incredible to me that red gum is so cool to Americans considering I see it everyday, it’s a great timber.

[@WoodByWright]

Yep. I was having a discussion the other day with an Australian drooling over my white oak and for me it's every other tree around here.

[@splashpit]

Someone please send him some Black heart sassafras .

[@everettneil6860]

What type of hardwood would you compare it to .

[@WoodByWright]

In hardness it's not too far off from Maple. Very close to a purple heart. The switching grain reminds me a lot of Paducah.

[@andreicharpentierquesada4530]

why did you clamp the wood with the jorgensen clamp when you were making the hole? to avoid spliting?

[@WoodByWright]

Correct. Otherwise the snail on the auger bit would split such a small piece.

[@pauld9530]

I made a Roubo style bench out of reclaimed railway sleepers which I think were red gum. Certainly challanging.

[@stephenjohns962]

If they were railway sleepers, they were probably Jarrah from Western Australia (Eucalyptus Marginata). They use it for jetty pylons, sleepers and in the 19th century even paving the streets of London. Very hard and with a high level of silica. Absolutely kills sharp blades.

[@pauld9530]

@@stephenjohns962 they could be.

[@iankrom510]

Have you used the pedal powered metal lathe much?

[@WoodByWright]

I use it every now and then. I am not big into turning, but every now and then it has it's use.

[@ryanstieglitz8077]

Comment down below

[@doubledarefan]

0:10 RED Gиm ? I guess that's wright.

[@WoodByWright]

Lol yup.

[@MatthewBuntyn]

Is that a Narex float?

[@WoodByWright]

it is their curved file. it is hardened like a file rather then soft like a float. lddy.no/rfgv I have been playing with them and really like them.

[@MatthewBuntyn]

Something else to go on the list

[@brodiesmith4419]

redgums firewood over here! ill trade pound for pound redgum firewood for white oak!!

[@tylerjenkins91]

If only the postage wasn’t so expensive! I got oak, elm, walnut, and some hickory. Probably could dig up maple and cherry if I headed over to my uncles place and wondered the woods a little.

[@Peter_Bovey]

commonly used for fence posts here or firewood as mentioned earlier its correct name is river redgum btw

[@rhys5567]

Ill give you a forest mate.

[@ozone325]

Somethingth

[@cobberpete1]

Adding to Comments below. It's a bloody nuisance having to sharpen every five minutes. My property is covered in 'Red' gum. Jarrah and Maori.

[@kennethnielsen3864]

42nd.