Thread: timber ID

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 Tony

Originally Posted by Tony Morton

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 Tony

Hi Tony, I can understand how u are thinking CL but CL it's not, smell completely diff and no dark heartwood

Pete

I wouldn't commit to it, but it may be mango.

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.

Originally Posted by Exador

I wouldn't commit to it, but it may be mango.

Hi Craig, no it's not mango, some simillarities but no.

Pete

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

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.

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

White Cedar

Originally Posted by Keith J

White Cedar

What he said...

If its white cedar Bargin, sure is pretty timber however

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

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

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?