Thread: Can anyone idenify this

The timber looks like (blackwood)acacia melanoxylon, but the bark looks slightly different to the ones down here.
regards
Joel

Originally Posted by shedbound

The timber looks like (blackwood)acacia melanoxylon, but the bark looks slightly different to the ones down here.
regards
Joel

Joe. Its not Blackwood, its very heavy and pink coloured. John.

Hi John,
A Friend use to come back from up a bit higher, & they called wood a bit like that, Waddy Wood, & they used it for Fence Posts.
I could be away off the mark here.

Certainly an acacia from the description and the photo. Lucky you!!

Stick it on the lathe and watch it blunt your tools!

Hi John
From the location and the pinkish colour I'd say gidgee or a close relative, waddy wood is Cites listed so it wouldn't be laying around a campfire.
Cheers Tony

Where is Cliff when you need him, wouldn't be surprised if he knew what it was.

I'll send him a PM with a link back to this thread.

Maybe Weeping Myall, acacia pendulata... Very heavy, honey tones in chocolate, very faint sweet vanilla smell, beautiful creamy sapwood which varies from about 2mm to 12 or 14mm

G'day, got the PM, definitely an acacia.

It could be Boree, Gidgee, or Mulga.

How is that for helpful?

Looks like Boree bark but the stuff I know has very pale sapwood & very dark heartwood.

Boree & Gidgee both make great firewood but hardly anything can eat either of them.
Mulga can be used for stock food (if the stock are given sulphur supliments) so Mulga is not usually cut for firewood.

I've driven around a fair bit of western Queensland & all three vary from place to place, some have different shape, some have different bark, some have different colour to the leaves & then when you cut into it, both the colour & the smell differs & that can be from trees that are growing with in a couple of hundred metres of each other.

If you are going to try turning it, you will find that a skew is hopeless.
Rough it with a gouge & finish it with a scraper.

I'm going to go with Boree, but I can't give you the scientific name 'cos there are 4 different acacias called Boree.

The end grain looks more like Gidgee or Mulga but the bark looks like more like Boree.

Have a look at these pics of Gidgee from TTIT's web site.

Cliff, I'll put it down for mulga as I also got some gidgee from the same wood heap. I always thought mulga was brown? John.

Photos of some Mulga from Longreach here.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/member.../albums/mulga/

I'll get some pics of Boree at the end of the month.

Wasn't aware of a Boree up this way.

The Boree I know is from the Riverina area and reportedly has a distinctive sweet violet odour.
Funny, I lived down ther for 20 odd years and never ever turned any because I didn't have a lathe
at the time. It certainly made for a very hot fire, like the Casuarinas.

One thing about the Boree from down here, where it grows in groves the wet weather makes it
stink like cat P##s!

There are at least 4 different tress in Oz called Boree.