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  1. 21st June 2009, 05:58 PM #1
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    Default Can anyone identify this timber please?

    I had about an hour in the shed this afternoon cleaning up and picked up what I thought was a piece of Red Cedar. It's not like any cedar I have, so I'm guessing not cedar.
    I ran a piece through the bandsaw and planed a short length.
    The sapwood is very pale cream and the heartwood is nearly purple-ish.
    Here are a couple of pix including one of the outside of the log - well was a log once.
    Any help or suggestions would be welcome.
    I think it came from Malcolm Ward's place and I likely picked it up as an offcut of what I thought was cedar.
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  3. 21st June 2009, 06:21 PM #2
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    no idea...
    but i loved the 1st photo... it looks like a display, and the there is a real mood about the photo.
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    From Mal it is probably Tasmanian Myrtle, it will have purlple, vivid yellows, reds, with a soft sapwood often with large grub holes. Nice to work with and looks very nice, also turns well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Claw Hama View Post
    From Mal it is probably Tasmanian Myrtle, it will have purlple, vivid yellows, reds, with a soft sapwood often with large grub holes. Nice to work with and looks very nice, also turns well.
    I agree, looks like myrtle to me.
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    Could be Mackay cedar... red sirus, although borers don't normally attack the heart wood.
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    Tasmanian Myrtle for me too.
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    Hi Greg, I thought it had a bit too much purple/maroon and yellow to be MacCedar. Hard to pick in photos.

    How hard is it Scribbly? MacCedar seems to be a bit harder that Tasie M.
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    looks like dark red cedar to me!
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    It's too soft to be Mackay Cedar and I am allergic to the stuff. I get pins and needles in the throat and airways, and skin irritation when I work Mackay Cedar, and that didn't happen with this.
    It is the same general weight and density as Australian Red Cedar but it isn't red but purple-ish and the sapwood seems too clean and creamy to me.
    Planed beautifully though.
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    Tasie Myrtle then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum View Post
    It's too soft to be Mackay Cedar and I am allergic to the stuff. I get pins and needles in the throat and airways, and skin irritation when I work Mackay Cedar, and that didn't happen with this.
    It is the same general weight and density as Australian Red Cedar but it isn't red but purple-ish and the sapwood seems too clean and creamy to me.
    Planed beautifully though.
    Oops.....................news flash.
    I have just handled the samples again that I used in the photos.
    ...................yep - you guessed it - irritations everywhere.
    So it's Mackay cedar.
    It was pouring rain and 500% humidity when I handled it last so that might explain the lack of irritation then.
    Sorry for the lack of symptoms earlier. Now I'm as itchy as.........
    I wish it was Tas Myrtle, I'll have to burn this.
    Scratch, scratch......
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