Thread: Does Jarrah burn to ash?

Hello Mate, Looks like Jarrah to me. Jarrah can have an amazing range of grain, colour and patterns. I was looking at a pen last night and at first glance, I swore it was sheoak, but nope, was Jarrah.
Anyhoo, Jarrah when burn't has black charcoal. Quite often Jarrah and WA Karri are mixed up. One way to tell the difference is Karri will leave white ash, whereas the Jarrah will leave black charcoal chunks

Hope this helps
Willy
Jarrahland

Thankyou, Willy. So I had it wrong way round - I thought it was the Jarrah that ashed & the Marri that made charcoal. I was beginning to wonder if I had it bass-arckwards (something I so rarely do ), when I remembered I had a bit of wood that is definitely Jarrah, though an odd-coloured, variegated piece that I had put aside because it didn't at all match the rest of the stuff I was using. I tried a splinter of that, & it made charcoal too.

So I think we've established two things pretty conclusively: Jarrah makes charcoal & it's a highly variable wood!

Cheers,