So i came across this from a guy who cleans out warehouses after the occupants quit paying rent, he basically goes in and takes everything and sells what he can. So i have no idea what this is. He said it was white oak but i didn’t really believe him and i believe him even less once i plained it down a bit. The color on the images is pretty accurate except the one that shows the sapwood, the hard wood center is more the same color as the others. It was pretty dark in the garage tonight so the pictures are not that good, I can post better ones if someone wants me to.
Forgot, it might be walnut but it has some real purple hues to it
Edited 9/24/2008 11:51 pm ET by wiskytango
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It certainly isn't white oak-or any oak....Image 2790 sort of looks similar to Imbuia, but the rest of them have put that idea out of my mind.
Does it have a smell? You should find more warehouses because that stuff looks quite good.
Phillip No smell that I noticed anyway, I will check it out, But i did notice that it seemed like a very heavy wood, and hard wood.
Looks like some sort of rosewood to me, but what do I know?
Jason
If it is a "normal" (for me--not tropical exotic wood) wood I think it is walnut.
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/indextotal.htm
Try looking here. You might find something that looks similar.
ASK
I would gues it's some sort of rosewood. Rose woods often have a nice oder as you machine them.
Looks like cocobolo with some sap wood.
Cocobolo; that was instantly what came to my mind with the first pic.Saw it by hand saw and smell the dust; careful some people are sensitive to this stuff.Should smell just like roses. If not much smell then maybe bubinga as flairwoodworks says. However cocobolo looks like this with no finish but to get bubinga to look like that I would need to put some finish on it to bring out that much color.All the kingwood I have seen has much more closely spaced grain pattern. And usually has armed gaurds around it 'cause it is worth about as much as that yellow stuff in Fort Knox.Cocobolo is real heavy ( heavier than bubinga) If it is cocobolo this is worth $ $ $Specific gravity for bubinga is on the order of .70
Are you ready . . . cocobolo is like 1.1What does that mean ? It means if you cut off a piece of the denser (not sapwood) cocobolo and throw it in the bath tub it would probably float bellow the surface or sink to the bottom !by the by oak is roughly .68Edited 9/26/2008 1:55 am by rocEdited 9/26/2008 2:00 am by roc
Edited 9/26/2008 2:02 am by roc
roc I cut off a chunk and tossed it in a cup of water and it sunk like a rock.
Well that means it is either wood that is above 1.0 specific gravity (water is the 1.0 standard)or your wood is petrified. : )For the sake of your saws I hope it is the former. Interesting there is not much smell to the saw dust.
Edited 10/5/2008 6:34 pm by roc
Looks alot like walnut to me...
Jimmy,surely you intended to reply to whiskeytango. The wood isn't mine. I am just in it for the chocolate.and walnut will float; no problem.whiskeytango,You seem to have more than one type of wood there; are they all sinkers?
Edited 10/5/2008 6:32 pm by roc
The only wood I know of that doesn't float is lignum vitae.
Jim
Add Ipe to that.
mike
Hey what does Ipe smell like when you saw it ? Could some of Whiskey"s wood be Ipe judging by the photos ?
Add Ziricote also , as it has undulating grain that looks like a mountain landscape, much like a couple of the samples you have, it is also heavy and dense.
2791,4 and 9 look like rosewood or possibly bubinga. 2796 looks almost like maple.
Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
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The first thing that came to mind was bubinga for me.
ROB,
My vote is some type of rose wood.
Bob, Tupper Lake, NY
79 looks like indian rosewood with some sapwood, the others make me think of teak, but the grain is weird for teak. Might just be an odd example.
What about Kingwood? It has a very contrasting sapwood/heartwood and I believe it is related to rosewoods.
Josh
I think it is wood that you would not enjoy using very much. You should ship it to me and I will take care of it:) Very nice looking wood what ever it is.
Troy
Ha ... No nice try though. I will post some better pictures this weekend once i get a chance maybe that will help.
I'd guess some sort of a Rosewood, probably from Central America or further North. It looks not entirely unlike some Panamanian Cocobolo I purchased from Gilmer's in Portland Oregon some while back.
It looks like Honduran Rosewood to me (Dalbergia Stevensonii).
Nice find,
Konrad
I think you are pretty close, but it is missing something that I can't put my finger on for Stevensoni. And it is definatly not Cocobolo. It is too brown. Freshly planed, that would be showing purple/ gold/ blacks etc. I think it is Bolivian Rosewood, which is not really a rosewood. It has lots of names, Morado is one. It would be sold at about twice the price of walnut here, and is not hard to get. It can have some finishing problems though. I have know of some people putting certain finishes on that never set.
Ok all I got some fresh pictures that I think will help. I did a bit more planning on some of the planks and I think I actually have 2 maybe 3 types of wood. What I have noticed is it is heavy and also is very hard and no real sent. My planner blades aren't in the best of shape but this stuff was putting some serious strain on them. I have divided the images out into 4 sets, one detail and one main image for each, all with a little bit of white typing paper for color comparison
Sample 3 is probably teak.
Dick
Some of the pics look like persimmon to me.
In sample one the top board resembles Red Heart, the center board looks like Wenge, I can't see the bottom one well enough to make a judgement as to what kind but it seems different than the top two.
I agree with Teak for sample three, it looks quite typical.
Sample two looks like cocobolo or rosewood.
Sample four is not typical of any species that I know, it could be Teak but there are many other possibilities.
I'm sure it's either Pine or MDF.
>either Pine or MDFHa, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,
Edited 10/13/2008 1:20 am by roc
I have some SE Asian rosewood that looks exactly like that. Can't remember the name, but that's the same stuff.
Im staring down at a black walnut desk in half light and the grain and color from some of the earlier pictures look like this. The sap wood pictures really look like the walnut. I am not familar with the tropical woods that others have mentioned, but whatever the wood, it will make something beautiful. If your ladyfriend says "Boy, you smell sweet. Like maple syrup.," after you cut some of this lumber, I would hold true to walnut.
Sample one the bottom wood is wenge.
Sample three I agree with teak though not definitive from the picture.
If it is important to know you can send samples to the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. WI. http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/woodID/idfact.html has all the details. It's a free service, for up to five specimens in a year.
My guess would be either black walnut, which has a rich dark brown color or English walnut which has a greyish cast to it. Grain is similar but color is slightly different. The whitish sapwood is typical of both species. Certainly ain't oak; white, red, or sky blue.
My favorite candy store - Gilmer Wood - has a handy reference guide on their website which might be useful:
http://www.gilmerwood.com/Gilmerwood%20Wood%20Sample%20Images.htm
Pics one through four look sorta like Cocobolo and sorta like Bacote. The last two look very much like Black Walnut.
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