Thread: Assistance with Identification

Thanks MM

I did find another face grain image on the following pdf. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...edhXFkgxrwug9J

Originally Posted by MAPLEMAN

Not yet but will try and find some pics...MM

I think I can find some tomorrow and photograph it incl some end grain (using my mobile phone only). It is a pale yellow and denser as noted by MM and the author of the SA woodgroup. I had considered leopardwood, the arid zone Flindersia, as well and can show if interested. Has a similar cream colour & high density (for a Flindersia)

Originally Posted by Feckit

If the apricots smell like wood, then yes, the wood smells like apricots.

What dies it smell like then? Smell - along with a burning splinter test and density - is a far more useful identification tool than a couple pictures.

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My bet based on density and endgrain is its not a flindersia. Don't mind my pictures... It had leaves on it last month so its got moisture at the end grain and my rougher blades are blunt.

Its domestic. There's a couple of species in the family. Colour brings it back to four. Smell might tell us which one, or rule some out. Apply your nose to the freshly worked wood.

It doesn't smell of much to be honest. I didn't notice anything when I squared up the block on the table saw nor when it was being sanded.

One other important visual aspect of the timber is that, when sanded, it looks like a piece of polished stone similar to marble. Crows Ash (Flindersia australis) also has this property.

Here are 2 pics taken with phone camera in my workshop of end grain & side grain (not sanded) of a small turning block I kept of Flindersia xanthoxyla (Yellowood Ash). Originally from some figured stumpwood. A member here (JW) may have some larger panels of it for boxes as I cant find it.)

I have not detected a characteristic odour in this wood when cutting it in the past. But millers who cut fresh wood may certainly be able to identify such wood odours and use them to characterise or identify woods especially those grown locally.

Euge

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Colour reproduction is not good. The wood is a pale yellow, medium grain, moderately dense and with a nice lustre

Nice one Euge.

That first image looks cool as.

Anyway, I've sanded the end grain and here they all are for comparison. The colour is also not good mainly because the camera is so close and blocking the light a fair bit.

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Personally I'd say case closed and thanks for all the input by all.

A large number of Flindersia species are around or above 700kgM3 at 12%
Age and growing conditions of a tree can have profound affects on density...there is often great variability within a species...MM