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11th September 2023, 08:52 PM #1
Timber ID
My friend owns an old mill house from the 1940's probably.
It has a garage and in the garage was a bench attached to the wall and the legs secured in the concrete anyway we removed the bench most of it was VicAsh hover one board was obviously something else.
Today I got around to cleaning up. Lost about 400mm in length to nails and some mortices, however it is lovely stuff, fairly heavy, tight grained, almost creamy. It has very fine evenly distributed medullary rays. No real scent this board is perfectly quarter sawn. Certainly to nice for a mechanics workshop bench top.
Any ideas what it could be.
I used a power planer to remove the grey dirty surfaces.
Could it be Queensland kauri?
MEDULLARY CLOSE UP
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FACE
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END GRAIN
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Any ideas?
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14th September 2023, 09:20 AM #2
Picture quality leaves a bit to be desired, TS!
TBH, I have nothing worth contributing to an id, but softwoods (i.e. conifer family) should not have medullary rays as such, but it may be an illusion created by the way the cells are stacked on each other. A clean cut of end grain should tell you if they are real medullary rays. It does look a bit kauri-like in one pic. If it's kauri & dense & heavy, it is probably more likely of NZ origin than NQ which tends to be less firm & dense. A huge amount of it was imported early last century 'til the Kiwis practically cut it all out....
Cheers,IW
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17th September 2023, 01:53 PM #3
NZ Honeysuckle/REwarewa
Just a moment...
it could be this not dissimilar to a piece I picked up whilst over in NZ many years ago for woodturning. Known as Rewarewa by the locals but termed NZ Honeysuckle.Part of the Protea genus.Johnno
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22nd September 2023, 03:26 PM #4
Kauri or could also be old growth hoop pine
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