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Would you have any small pieces of this or other timbers that can be shipped to support scientific research?
Thanks
Paolo

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Allright, thanks anyway.
Will I ever see a brown salwood sample? Even just 12x4x1cm would be fine...
Paolo

Mine! (if possible...)

Please add one set (I don't need the best one) to my shopping cart :)
I am happy to pay now for the items and later, when all is ready, for the shipment
Paolo

Raintree is Albizia Saman, isn't it?
Its timber is very chatoyant - see Albezia – PZC Chatometry

Nice stuff!
Paolo

PM sent!
Paolo

Awesome! Thank you!
Paolo

Yes, thank you, that would work for me!
Either figured or non-figured samples would work, as long as they are not endgrain samples.
However, IF you are happy to split this batch I would be happy to...

Thank you :)
Paolo

That's great, thank you!
If you can add some small samples (at least 120*38*5mm) from any other local species or, even better, from other Brown Salwood logs (i.e. individual trees) it would be very...

Thank you
I have been receiving samples from all over the world, including ~10 parcels from Australia, and not a single one got stuck in the customs. And even if it did, it would only mean that I...

Would you be up for splitting the batch and sending just the Brown Salwood over to Italy? How much would it cost?
Otherwise, what would be the total for the whole batch including shipping to Italy?...

Those are impressive pieces of furniture. Too bad QLD Maple does not reach Italy!
I must notice, however, that a high chatoyance timber may be upsetting when you aim at bookmatching...!

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Impressive. How does it get this dark? Is it like the heart
of the trunk?
It really looks like Koa!

What is that????

Anyway, I wish you were a few thousands miles closer; then I would be your best customer!!!!

Paolo

Sorry for the late replies, I do not get notified of new messages in the thread :(

Looks like very numerous tiny pores, which happens only in some of the endless Eucalyptus species.

If you...

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The first is Bubinga, the second is Jarrah
I took these from HobbitHouse Wood ID site

(a very good website)

If the piece you show is a pen blank I would go with Jarrah. A...

Would you have an enlarged view of the endgrain, possibly sanded to high grit? That's the key to identification...

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Unlucky finding this stuff in Italy is impossible :(

@powderpost
This interesting.
We found some species with a lot of variability, but most are well...

@IanW
Thanks for the info.
That cabinet is absolutely stunning. Congratulations.
And the wood itself is amazing.
I understand why they called it "Maple", even if the curl is much wider on QLD...

Thanks for the info.

We only have one sample from F. Bourjotiana and none from F. Schottiana and F. Pimenteliana; it would be nice to test some. I was surprised by the significant difference in...

Hi everyone
What is your experience with Queensland Maple (Flindersia Brayleyana) as opposed to Crow's Ash (Flindersia Australis)?
We tested samples from 7 different logs of the former and 3...

Speaking about samples 24 and 26, this us how they look under the rotating light conditions provided by our test rig.

Sample 24:
https://www.chatometry.com/wp-content/uploads/test_05695gif.gif
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Samples received... AMAZING!!!
Thank you very much... Impressive stuff!
Paolo

Thank you... PM sent!
Paolo

Thank you. This is precious information!

Maybe the difference in the appearance of these silky oak pieces is related to the direction and the angle of the medullary rays cells with respect to the...

Hello again. Just a question:
your list mentions twice "Northern Silky Oak"; are they two samples from two different logs? Or are they from the same log or unknown?
The same question applies to:...

Thank you very much Clear Out
February is fine for us and yes, I agree that avoiding the Christmas chaos would be a good idea indeed...
I look forward to whatever samples people can gather. In fact...

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!
Thank you!!!!
PM sent...

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Hi everyone
If anybody is still up for providing any samples from these (or other) species, please PM me and we'll sort the details.
We are happy with small samples (120x40mm, any thickness), or...

In fact, we also got very high results from Flindersia Brayleyana: it turned out to be n. 4 after Blackwood, Koa and Bintangor.
See Maple, Queensland – PZC Chatometry

As for Acacia Celsa, you...

Here we are! Blackwood is officially, by far, the most chatoyant of all mapped species!
See
Australian Blackwood – PZC Chatometry

I was surprised indeed because also going ABOVE #1500 had a great impact.

What do you do between sanding and sealing? Do you remove dust from pores with some sort of brush?

Just added a post about ultra-fine sanding on the finishing section

Hi everyone.
Within our test campaign about wood chatoyance we ran a comparative test on two samples, one sanded to #240 and then shellac coated, and the other sanded to #10'000 and then shellac...

Must be a first class guitar. Nice piece!
Thanks for the info.
Paolo

And what did you do with that beautiful piece of blackwood? I am curious about the final result!
Paolo

No problem at all... I am still thinking and worrying about the endless list of Acacias that live on your continent!

Is it still Acacia Celsa?

What an awesome curl!
We still have no Acacia Celsa samples at all, so yours would be very appreciated!
Paolo

Thanks Neil
So I understand you shipped some samples to "Clear Out", am I right?
Paolo

PS soon we'll be able to share some more results about fine sanding!

You will be happy to hear that our current most chatoyant sample [by far, among about 2000 samples] is an acacia melanoxylon sample with over 35 PZC :)

Thank you very much Eugene.
This clarifies a lot to me.
And yes, we also found visible chatoyance on Chloroxylon Swietenia (Ceylon Satinwood, isn't it?)

Satinwood – PZC Chatometry

However,...

Thank you
So, just so that I can understand better, would you consider African Ebony or European Boxwood to have "Lustre"?
They are both extremely compact and they can be fine-sanded to a...

Dear Eugene
Thank you very much for all the information you provided. The IWCS Australian page sounds very interesting and I will surely make use of it!

What is "Lustre"?

You are absolutely...

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Hi everyone
I was wondering if anybody gathered any samples for shipping to @clear out
I really look forward to test some stuff from your continent!
Thank you :)
Paolo

Hi there
It is on the August 2022 issue, but maybe it is still not available for purchase. There is a summary on their website... So let me reword it: "it should be published" :)