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3rd Apr 2010, 07:21 PM
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| |  What Timber is this..PLEASE
I grabbed this bit of wood today, thinking it was a bit of Jacaranda. It was light colored on the outside but when I cut the blank out with my just completed cirlce jig (smug mode - Pic 1), it was a deep purple colour.
As I turned the outside it seemed to get a darker purple colour and some of the shavings had the appearance of dirt.
It was easy to turn and finished a treat.
Hope some more knowledgable woodies here can help my identify this species.
Pic 5 is looking at the bottom before I chucked it on the dovetail jaws and hollowed it out
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3rd Apr 2010, 10:19 PM
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Hi Skot
To me the blank looks like bkack heart sassafras I've seen narrow strips of purple/lilac and pink in it but not as much as in the finished bowl hope this helps.
Cheers Tony
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3rd Apr 2010, 10:26 PM
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Gidgee? I really don't have a clue and the square sections don't look like the same wood as the bowl  . Was there a purple line between the heart & sapwood? If so it could be purple gidgee... but I really don't have a clue 
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3rd Apr 2010, 10:40 PM
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corbs,
I don't think it's gidgee...too soft. I understand that gidgee is as hard as iron.
Tony, I'll have a look for sassafras on the web. The pic of the polished outside makes it look a dark brown colour but in person it is deep purple.
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3rd Apr 2010, 10:42 PM
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Gidgee will never be confused for a soft wood  ... let the search for the wood species continue
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3rd Apr 2010, 11:42 PM
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Hey Skot
I don't think it's black heart sassafras as Tony suggested. I turned a piece of BHS during the week and it certainly didn't behave like you describe. What started white stayed white and what started brown/black stayed that way too and there was not a hint o purple anywhere.
Sorry but no suggestions as to what it could be though.
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4th Apr 2010, 09:19 AM
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It might be Queensland walnut. Pale yellow sapwood and brown heartwood with darker brown bands seems to fit.
cheers
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4th Apr 2010, 09:36 AM
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What about Burdekin Plum. I've never used it before so dont know what it is like to work with.
But I can remember seeing purple, brown, orange colours in a slab I saw once. Cant remember what the sapwood was like though.
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4th Apr 2010, 10:34 AM
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Hi Skot,
If you where here on the other side of the big water I would say its American Black Walnut or one of the hybrids. You get all kind of purples and colours in Walnut when its air dried.
Was walnut ever imported in to Australia?
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4th Apr 2010, 12:45 PM
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I was just checking on the net using the suggestions from the wonderful helpers on this forum and I am leaning towards a walnut, although it is very easy to turn and not sure if walnut is easy to work. The bandsaw ate through it with no probs and the turning was a breeze.
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4th Apr 2010, 01:59 PM
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Doesn't look like BP to me, you would have commented that it was heavy if it was BP.
Looks a bit like raintree.
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4th Apr 2010, 02:00 PM
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Qld walnut is very abrasive on the tools. |
4th Apr 2010, 05:12 PM
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Cliff, this wasn't hard on the tools...count Walnut out
Not too much tearout on endgrain either..
Maybe I should stop wasting the formulites time here and accept it as a nice bit of timber and probably better to wait until Maleny Wood Show, take it with me and ask one of the merchants. I understand that it is difficult to guess with a pic and best to see it in person to see the colour and grain.
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4th Apr 2010, 10:23 PM
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Where did you get the timber from? Is it a local timber?
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