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Thread: Timber ID please.
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21st May 2013, 02:02 PM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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Timber ID please.
A few weeks ago I was given two small pieces of unknown timber for pen making. I was hoping to ID the timber type/species and figured the forum was a good place to start. I have my ideas but know the depth of knowledge here is far greater than mine.
I've oriented the pics so the same piece of timber should be at the top in each case.
I've sanded off the worst of the saw blade marks and wet them down (most of it evaporated by the time the photos were taken).
The piece at the top works out around 1050-1100 kg/m3 (as-is with bark)
The piece at the bottom works out around 1350-1400 kg/m3 (as-is with bark)
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21st May 2013, 02:26 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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gidgee?
Looks like a dense inland timber.
Greg
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21st May 2013, 03:25 PM #3
Looks like Western Myall to me
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21st May 2013, 03:52 PM #4
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21st May 2013, 04:39 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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mulga
Looks the wrong colour for mulga. The bark is gidgee and the colour is gidgee.....but it also may match other inland dense timbers?
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21st May 2013, 04:54 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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Thanks for the input so far,
I'm fairly sure these are both Eastern State timbers. The two pieces are different enough to make me think they are two different timbers. At the very least they come from very different parts of the tree if they are the same as each other.
My thoughts were Gidgee and Brigalow (the bark looks too "soft" but they are probably 30+ yrs old).
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22nd May 2013, 10:35 PM #7
Timber ID please.
Gidgee
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22nd May 2013, 10:44 PM #8
Doug just to throw another one at you, maybe Raspberry Jam. Sand some off and if it has a sweet jam like aroma then thats what it is.But having said that it looks a lot like Gidgee yo me.
Regards Rumnut.
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22nd May 2013, 11:24 PM #9
Re: Timber ID please.
Gidgee. Bark is spot on, colour is a good match. Does it have a spicy smell to it when cut or sanded?
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22nd May 2013, 11:25 PM #10
Could be acacia oswaldii, acacia melvillei, acacia pendulata, or acacia omalophylla . Do they have a sweet smell when worked?
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30th May 2013, 10:19 PM #11
looks like the gidgie I just bought home from northern inland NSW.
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