Has anyone resawed Acasia?

There are a lot of acasia trees around my area. The wood looks a lot like koa, same family I believe.

Also I was wonder if it would work to resaw not totally seasoned wood and put it in a drymount press at about 200 for an hour or so, then wet it and do that a couple of times?

It's preferable to saw Acacia Melanaloxolyn (Australian Blackwood) when it is green unless you are extremely wealthy and like trips to the shop that sells you bandsaw blades.

Blackwood has very long fibres which become clogged in the kerf so it is preferable to use a blade with large gullets (3 TPI is good)

I use Lenox Woodmaster CT (carbide tipped) and I can get through 80-100 sets of green Blackwood before the blade is stuffed.

As far as drying, it depends what the climate is like where you live.

I like to resaw at the start of winter in Melbourne because that is the start of our humid season and it won't dry too quickly. I do use a fan on it for the first couple of weeks as Blackwood has a tendency to grow a black fungus if left to wet for too long, particularly under the stickers so you would need to be checking it each week.

I've even done this to it for a couple of hours just to make sure they're not too wet when they are stickered. Mind you the temperature was only in the 50's on that day and there was absolutely no wind.

Best pic of the month Bob!

How does acacia compare with Koa for re-sawing? I have a piece of Koa I got from the big Island in '06 I want to resaw. Hope I didn't wait too long. Does anyone know who might do that around here (SF Bay area)? My band saw is a Sears 12 inch I got for $35 at a garage sale and I don't trust it or my skills to do this.

Best pic of the month Bob!