Thread: what is this timber

That end panel & drawer fronts looks a lot like a Yew (Taxus baccata L. [Taxaceae].

Mark

Looks like old pine to me, maybe cypress.

Does it have a smell inside the draws?

Additional images, looks very familiar, no smell other than musty.

I am not too sure about the cabinet but the draw side has been replaced at some time in the recent past and is a piece of merranti. the rest could be almost anything in the photo you can see many different timbers in there so difficult to say in a photo.
regards Rod.

Looks like a peppercorn slab I have.

Philippine Mahogany. These replicas are made in the Philippines.

+1 for the Meranti drawer side and +1 for the Cypress board up the side. (Why would you use a slab with such a distinctive difference in heartwood/sapwood?) What a hodge-podge of timbers! Rustynail's suggestion of Mahogany rings true for the first of the extra photos; it reminds me of a Cedar (White?) and our early colonists used Red Cedar as a substitute for the Mahogany as used in stately rooms and houses back in old Blighty.

Craig

Mackay Cedar?

Being made in in Queensland gives us some good clues. The side board does look like Cypress Pine, but Cypress is not normally that wide, even when cut bark to bark as that one. I agree with wheelinaround that it looks like old Mackay Cedar, which although very bright when new does fade to the same mellow colours as Cypress and usually comes in wider boards.

These units come up at auction on a regular basis. A mob at Homebush NSW used to import them.
They came in unfinished and are sold in the raw or stained and polished. That one would have been sold in the raw, as the stain used is dark to cover knots and sapwood light colour.
The mahogany used is low grade and ringing wet. Check for shrinkage gaps.

No idea but -pics 1,3,4 look different to 3 -considerably. But seems to be a slide out surface so probably was just handy at the time.