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A restoration job and a what wood is this question.
A young woman rushed out her front door in on the way to hospital in labour and had a last second thought to water all her plants as she may not be home for some time. There was nothing under the pot to catch the water that ran out the bottom. When she returned she found this had happened to a table her grand dad had made which she inherited when he passed.
This is how I got this tricky job.
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I have a timber ID problem with it though.
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I can see what looks like
1 Qld Walnut.
2 Silky Oak .
3 Some blonde timber that is to hard to guess but I have something similar .
4 looks like some fine grained hardwood and I don't know what it is but some Walnut I have looks close enough except for the way the light catches the grain.
Here is the walnut up against no 4. Maybe 4 actually is walnut ? Not Qld Walnut .
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6 is very bland and looks just like some cheap Mahogany I have that is a bit more red in colour but it'll do.
5 is the problem timber. It has a stringy line look about it and has medullary ray showing due to the cut from the tree or board.
The owner is happy with me using what is the best match I can find if I don't have exactly the wood type. She wants to keep costs down so I'm not going to drive around to who ever may ID it as it would add time and $.
So hopefully someone here may have seen number 5 before.
The six wood types are used right around the top.
Here is a section with the crazed finish scraped off and the wood sanded then Metho put on top.
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And a close up of number 5
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Number 5 as its used around the top.
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And some lines drawn on . The dark lines are the stringy looking grain and the red are the Medullary rays.
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Any ideas what it could be or got any of it?
The water soaked in and separated the Plywood under the veneer so the first thing to do was to get some glue in and press that all flat with my shop made single press. Great tool for this sort of thing. And then I'm starting in the middle and working out from that with re building the pattern.
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Rob