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  1. 29th November 2007, 09:08 PM #1
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    Default What kind of wood is this?

    Some time ago, I gathered a few sticks some previous owner left laying around my property. I was going to post a photo of the small wood pile I now have but never got around to it.

    Anyway, I've planed and thicknessed a couple of the sticks to use in a project and both were the same kind of wood. Any idea what it is? It's pretty heavy for its size.

    Ignore the little scallywag in one of the photos, she was desperately trying to make me throw the tennis ball
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  3. 29th November 2007, 10:35 PM #2
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    Red stuff looks like Sydney bluegum?

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  4. 1st December 2007, 08:22 PM #3
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    All pictures are of the same piece of wood, just different lighting.

    I did throw the ball in the end . She is obsessed.

    Would Sydney bluegum be in Brisbane? Because that's where I am.
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  5. 2nd December 2007, 07:49 AM #4
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    Too hard to tell without seeing the correct colour. If you want to send me a small sample let me know and I will PM you with my address.

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  6. 2nd December 2007, 11:18 AM #5
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    loks like it could be spotty gum to me.

    but its hard to tell as the lighting aint the best. it is almost imposable to get a good tru picture of timber.

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    G'day.
    The pin holes (if that is what they are and not nail holes) would rule out Spotted Gum.

    Grain structure and figure suggest Coastal Blackbutt or Stringybark.
    Is the real colour of the wood a light honey yellow?
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  8. 2nd December 2007, 09:54 PM #7
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    Trevor, they holes aren't nail holes, and are naturally in the wood - I'm assuming that means they're pin holes.

    The colour could be described as light honeyed yellow. The first photo (up close and blurry) is much closer to the true colour than the other ones, although it's still not particularly accurate.

    I need to get a good camera some day...
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  9. 9th December 2007, 10:56 PM #8
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    Trade or Common Name: Purpleheart, amaranth, violetwood
    Local Name: Nazareno
    Botanical Name: Peltogyne spp.
    Family: Caesalpiniaceae
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  10. 11th December 2007, 02:05 PM #9
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    no - it's definitely an aussie hardwood
    "... it is better to succeed in originality than to fail in imitation" (Herman Melville's letters)
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  11. 12th December 2007, 08:57 PM #10
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    Definitely not purpleheart - its a crappy camera.
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    Yep fooled me!
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