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  1. 27th May 2017, 07:39 PM #1
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    I am in the process of building a bench pair for my Kapex, and wanted to add a board to the top front for a T-track on the top and front face. I enquired at Otto's in Adelaide only Thursday - something c. 40 x 120 or so. Kapur was suggested (not a favourite I admit after putting up Kapur fence railings around a property many years ago)

    I picked this up of a heap destined for firewood today!
    Gave a couple of faces a quick electric plane to expose the underlying. It is quite heavy, not jarrah heavy, but heavy.
    3 m length; ideal! There is some slight cupping on one section but that will plane out.

    46 x 141mm a cut length of 1m weighs 7.5 Kg

    V = 6615, so density c. 1.3


    Any suggestions as to what this might be?
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  3. 27th May 2017, 08:48 PM #2
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    Blackbutt, possibly? (eucalyptus pilularis). put a few drops of water on the planed surface and leave it for a few hours - if it's pilularis you'll see a black ring forming after a while. But, heck, could be anything really. Easier to say what it isn't
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  4. 27th May 2017, 08:57 PM #3
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    thanks PWH, i'll try the water
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  5. 27th May 2017, 09:43 PM #4
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    Could it be tallowwood, it does look like this a bit.

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  7. 28th May 2017, 10:35 AM #6
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    tried the water drops, margins look gummy but not black

    abc: yes, or possibly xyz.


    The darker fissures penetrating from the surface: are these fungal, crud, oxidation or combination?
    My knowledge of things wooden is somewhat primitive.




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  8. 28th May 2017, 02:28 PM #7
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    Looks a lot like the Fijian Kwila, yellower than the normal Kwila you see around
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    I agree - those watermarks are not on euc. pilularis.
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    Looks very similar to spotted gum.
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  11. 29th May 2017, 10:05 PM #10
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    put the 4 boards on a mate's Woodfast planer, and through a thicknesser today and got most of the cupping out, front face and top are flat and square. The back face still has some hollow, and rather than narrow the board, I'll route out a couple of mm and then shim and plane it. Gave one a bit of hand planing , then 10 minutes of rotex 80/120/180. Some before and after a wipe of Tung oil, and sitting in place. I am very pleased with the result.
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    Geez, those look totally different now
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