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21st May 2017, 08:52 PM #1Senior Member
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Scaffold plank and stair tread?
I've got these two pieces of really hard and really heavy timber that I'm trying to ID.
One is a more pinky blonde colour, the other is a more red colour, not as dark as redgum.
Both have a very similar grain, tightly packed with white speckles. And they're both really heavy. The lighter coloured one was a scaffold plank, the other I think was a stair tread.
The tread is about 700x300x30mm
The plank is about 1800x250x40mm
Any ideas on what they are? I'm thinking of using the lighter one to make a vanity unit for our bathroom, or a couple of side table cubes. As I've also got a 3m length of the same.
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21st May 2017, 09:13 PM #2
I fairly sure the red one is iron bark and the other stringy ark
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21st May 2017, 09:46 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks Ray,
I was thinking iron bark for the red one, and turpentine for the lighter one.
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The lighter coloured one is more likely Tassie oak/Mountain ash. (I think stringy bark comes from the same group of HW's but not as commonly milled for structural timber) I base this on it being just a scaffold plank and from Melbourne. So in other words a complete stab in the dark.
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22nd May 2017, 08:12 PM #5Senior Member
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It's far heavier and harder than any ash I've used before, the end grain is much denser too.
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