Well folks,
I was out in the shed framing up some new benches for my lute room.
To save a buck, I am using recycled West Australian Jarrah. This stuff has been pulled out of a timber framed house, denailed, face and edge planed, ripped to dimension and installed.
Jarrah is a premium Aussie hardwood an makes excellent framing timber, hence the abundance found in local salvage yards. Anyhow, I have worked with this stuff for years but the diversity of colour never ceases to amaze me.
The first image shows 2 pieces of Jarrah, there is no sap wood here, it's just how this stuff comes. The image has not been touched-up, if anything, the darker stuff with the curl looks much lighter in colour due to the flash.
The salmon pink stuff is lighter by weight as well as colour. This weight colour relationship is so predictable that years back, when I was making staircases for a living, if a client ordered a Jarrah staircase, I could pretty much colour match the hole job when selecting rough sawn boards from the supplier just by using variations in weight as an indicator.
We used to fool around sometimes and would install darker treads and risers down the bottom and take it toward the pink hues at the top, or dark treads and handrail with light spindles used for the balusters. Sometimes you get good curl, sometimes a black fleck similar to that found in tiger myrtle but less intense quite often both in the same board.
Here is a curly board with a bit of fleck and a rough gloss finish.
Here is another with a broad kind of quilt.
One of the more bazaar figures found in WA Jarrah is a curl that looks somewhat DNA threads as can be seen in the image below, this is a small stick but I have seen this figure in large boards.
The above may be a small stick but this wood is generally harvested from substantial trees. WA Jarrah was know as Swan River Mahogany in those early years when this state was first settled, it has been the backbone of our timber trade ever since. That's a large work glove I pushed into a heart shake to give some idea of size.
This is one of 4 clean logs cut from the same trunk.
Strong and beautiful this diverse wood works well and takes a nice finish. And yes, you can even make guitars from it...loud guitars
Thanks for looking, just thought I would share with my OLF buddies.
Cheers
Kim
Thanks Kim, great looking wood evrywhere in yo country Man! 
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Looks great Tim, what price do you have on that stunner??