Thread: Meranti flooring

Hey Neal

I work for Bunnings and we sell it of the racks to our customers, The tradies use for all sorts of things like finishing around the bottom of benches, wardrobes and shelves and other bits and piece so I dont see why you cant turn it up and see how it goes let me know if its any good

Ian

G'day Neal this is Meranti and Jarrah, gets as furry as all hell during turning but sands and polishes up pretty good. It's really soft, I cant imagine it being floor boards.

undies

this is the pic i meant to reshow. Undies to me the stuff i cut looks more like the Jarrah than the meranti. In the pic its just had a coat of tung oil, i'm not sure if this affects the colouring of the wood, but unoiled its still quite a dark colour.

I'll take the camera to work tomorrow as there is still some in the bin i will grab.

I have a piece of jarrah troy sent me and if i compare it to the flooring i cut up the red just isnt there in troys bit.

got me a bit puzzled as to what it is.

Neal.

looking at the pic again myself, it seems quite yellow, but i know this was taken on the iphone and perhaps its because the tung oil brought that colouring out, the stuff i have grabbed looks a lot like the board in the middle of this shot, quite a dark red, and definatly tongue and groove flooring, fairly certain it is quite tough, and a hardwood.

It doesn't look very red in the pic but if your saying it is red then I would guess Merbu, often used in flooring and very hard. But then again I'm only guessing, I've got a merbu pen somewhere I'll see if I can find the pic and put it up for you.

undies

cheers undies, i know a lil bit about the merbau (and qwila), made my deck out it, its got the yellow fleck through the grains, i've turned some of the post offcuts into lil boxes, and this stuff from work is about the same red but no yellow flecking.

Neal.

Hey Neal, my vote's for Jarah. Meranti is soft and fuzzy, used for finishing work around door jambs and skirting boards etc. I built a 4mtr outdoor dining table a few years ago out of Jarah and it looks the same timber as your ute tray. It's pretty hard timber, and it likes to bend nails, so pre-drill & screws are the go. Chuck a bit on the lathe and see how it comes up.

here's a coupla pics, first is the three offcuts sitting on the infeed table at work, second is boxed up cut to 150mm and 310 lengths, and if you see my pics on the ekka day off thread the slim/stream is this stuff turned up. the more i look at it the more i think its jarrah, but from a reference piece troy sent me his jarrah is quite a bit darker and doesn't appear as grainy. still a mystery to me.

Neal.

i thought it might be too pariss given its grain structure, however compare these turned bits...

the box is turned kwila posts from my deck, the pen slimline is from that batch of work wood.

Neal.