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Thread: timber ID
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20th January 2011, 12:22 AM #1
timber ID
Hi all, I got some pieces off Ian Feeny (forum member) a while back, the timber came from the SE Qld area, I'm not sure what this one is, machined OK, a slight odour, smelt OK, not sure what like tho, wide growth ring spacing, med to heavy density, old surface quite darkened with a nice tanish colour underneath, any clues
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20th January 2011, 08:26 AM #2Senior Member
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Hi Pete
Looks like camphor laurel to me the way the bark is leaving the branch and the bark very camphor like grain in last pic is very camphor the colour depends on growing location and age this looks like young sappy camphor.
Cheers TonyTony
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22nd January 2011, 12:12 AM #3
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23rd January 2011, 03:39 PM #4
I wouldn't commit to it, but it may be mango.
Cheers,
Craig
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23rd January 2011, 04:48 PM #5
It looks like an acacia to me, I forget the species name but it often called blackwood in qld but it is not Melanoxynon but one of the closely related ones. Is the smell sort of like what you would expect from blackwood?
I may be wrong but that is what the bark and grain say to me.
*edit* the sapwood also lends itself to that conclusion too.I am told that sharpening handsaws is a dying art.... this must mean I am an artisan.
Get your handsaws sharpened properly to the highest possible standard, the only way they should be done, BY HAND, BY ME!!! I only accept perfection in any saw I sharpen.
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23rd January 2011, 09:40 PM #6
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23rd January 2011, 09:51 PM #7
Hi Travis
I haven't seen anything called blackwood here as yet, but yes I think there is one here (qld)but just doesn't go as dark as the Tas A. melanoxylon but I doubt it's that.
It didn't have a blackwood smell to it, maybe the smell could be described as fruity
Pete
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13th March 2011, 06:29 PM #8
White Cedar
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13th March 2011, 10:31 PM #10
If its white cedar Bargin, sure is pretty timber however
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14th March 2011, 08:53 PM #11
Hi all, and thanks for the responses,
I can see how some of the pics might look like white cedar but I don't think it's white cedar, unless all the white cedar I have isn't white cedar
This pic to me looks different enuff to suggest something other than white cedar, it's a little area hand planed showing as is colour, (no water or such)
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Pete
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14th March 2011, 10:33 PM #12
Looks like white cedar to me too Only other thing that comes to mind is Jacaranda but it is a bit dark and the darker grain lines aren't quite right and neither is the bark.
Cheers
Michael
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15th March 2011, 12:12 AM #13
I like Qld Blackwood so far.
and when i read mango i though ding! that's it. but apparently not
The QLD black wood that i've worked was much browner?Steven Thomas