Opinions Needed - Do you guys like this wood?

[Larry D. Davis]

What are the scientific names? that's a must for research on wood.

Many misinformed people still misunderstanding the purpose and use and properties of professionally processed acrylic infused wood. Guess it's all about what one is promoting, eh? Me thinks I might do a thread on so called "stabilized" wood which I prefer to refer to as acrylic infused. This would provide information on the origin and invention of the process as well as it's historical advancement into commercialism. The original infused wood was polymerized with Cobalt 64..gamma ray and is still done by one manufacture today. Today we have several initiator options, photo, thermal, etc. First done in 1946, this process was promoted as part of President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program in the early 1950s. Methacrylate(s) infused wood was produced at Lawrence-Livermore Lab for use in the ill-fated construction of the only nuclear powered airplane designed in this country. Really quite an interesting history of "stabilized" wood far beyond the empty pickle jar and wood hardener camp, eh?

 

[Burl Source]

Looks like this thread has taken off into a direction I had never intended.
It was started to see if you guys liked the Australian woods so I could decide whether to spend the money needed to import some of it.

I am going to close the thread and back out gracefully.