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  1. 22nd May 2008, 11:19 AM #1
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    Default What wood is this?

    An American chap from the international PDRacer forum has a sample of wood that is reputed to be OZ.

    It was sold to him as "Australian Lacewood". Is this fishtail oak? I don't know my woods well enough.

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    Looks like Silky Oak (Grevillea Robusta) to me.
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    Yep, Silky Oak (Grevillea Robusta).

    It's often called lacewood in the US.

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    Either southern silky oak (Grevillea robusta) or Northern Silky Oak (Cardwellia Sublimis) My bet is on the northern as I don't think there's that much southern milled commercially and I do know of at least one mill up here cutting from private forestry that exports all of their stuff. That said, there's a south american timber which looks identical and is even imported into Australia as it's more readily available.

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