Since I tried to post the picture of my mystery wood I have upgraded my internet connection to satellite. Maybe I will have better luck uploading now. Anyway, here we go again with another shot at it.
Anyone care to take a stab at identifying it?
Harry
Following the path of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked.
Edited 4/12/2008 11:12 pm by harrycu
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A close-up showing the grain would help. Even more so if it were in focus. ;-)
I still say Shorea.
I'm currently trying to identify some wood that I salvaged from a packing crate used to ship dinosaur fossils from Africa. All I know for sure is that the shipment came from southwestern Tanzania. The wood appears to be a fairly soft, lightweight hardwood, no noticeable odor, pale cream in color, but with fine brown streaks. I assume that it is some inexpensive utility wood native to the area, but I haven't been able to figure out any more than that.
-Steve
What is the white wood that Lee Valley uses for packaging bendable stuff that doesn't need to bend? Let me clarify that a little bit. lol I ordered some t-tracks from them and they packaged them taped to a board about 1X3X3'. The wood is white in color with some small dark knots in it. I seems to be a hardwood, but I don't know that for sure.Harry
Following the path of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked.
The T track I ordered from them came packaged the same way. The wood with mine is SYP.
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