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Red Maple?
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mimosa?
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Teak or African Shedua. Both are tropical hard woods and expensive. I made my first compound bow from Shedua.
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Hmm, could be. Matches a lot of The Wood Database's description for it. Notes: Albizia stands as one of the few genera with a wide distribution spanning different continents where the heartwood of all species consistently fluoresces under blacklight. (This is in contrast with Afzelia, where the wood is fluorescent much less consistently and not as strongly.) A lack of fluorescence in the heartwood would generally rule out Albizia. I've got a UV flashlight. Experiment inbound! |
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Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) would be my guess
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I have the book too, and was thiiiisss close to making "In before the Yep It's Wood" meme the first post.
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Looks nice whatever it is
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Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
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Elm. I made some candlesticks on a lathe with some elm from my property. Looks similar.
ETA: if you cut or sand it and it smells like earth, that’s a good indication it is elm. |
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Originally Posted By amannamedjed: Elm. I made some candlesticks on a lathe with some elm from my property. Looks similar. View Quote Very dark for elm, almost a walnut, chocolate brown. Most of the elms I've dealt with have been more light blonde to gold-ish. I'm not authority though; I try not to deal with elm since I'm mostly about firewood at the moment, and prefer stuff I can split with 10 cuss words or less. |
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Kind of looks like Russian Olive, but the bark is wrong.
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Ash?
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Juglans ailantifolia or Japanese walnut. It also grows near Canada along the US border. Some people call it white walnut or white butternut.
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Seeing as it is in a compost pile, still in log form, and looking at what appear to be very large growth rings, I doubt it is anything exotic or even imported to the area. I would look into what species people in your area are clearing a lot of. Your local agricultural extension office will most likely have some info on their website. I am guessing it is something along the lines of Ailantha or a cousin.
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Do you have catalpa in Missouri? Large growth rings. Fastest grower around here.
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17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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The bark looks like mimosa, but I've never seen the inside of one. Looks like it would have some very nice figuring!
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01010111 | 57 | 127 | LXXXVII
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Can I have a piece when you mill it?
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Originally Posted By Covertness: Up to you. Small piece might make a nice pen or bottle stopper. Looks like interesting grain pattern. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Covertness: Originally Posted By midmo: I reckon... how big a piece you want? The logs are about 4-6". Up to you. Small piece might make a nice pen or bottle stopper. Looks like interesting grain pattern. No problem, I'll hook you up. I'll get with you once I get them sliced up. |
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@Covertness got too wrapped up in home weather chores on Saturday to make it to the P.O., but it's all boxed up and ready to go. Ice storm here right now but supposed to switch to rain later; your pkg should go out either this afternoon or tomorrow.
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Originally Posted By midmo: @Covertness got too wrapped up in home weather chores on Saturday to make it to the P.O., but it's all boxed up and ready to go. Ice storm here right now but supposed to switch to rain later; your pkg should go out either this afternoon or tomorrow. View Quote No hurry. Looking forward to it though. Will be sure to post a pic of the finished product |
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I'd take some rounds of that, looks nice
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Originally Posted By staringback05: I'd take some rounds of that, looks nice View Quote You mean like "cookie" slices of the log? Since it's completely green at this point, cookies are about 90% sure to split, and you end up with a pac man instead of a circle. Slices would make kinda pretty coasters or something, if they don't split. Some woods are better than others in that respect, but I'm completely unfamiliar with how mimosa acts. It's all just an experiment at this point. I could probably send you some cookies if you want play with 'em, but it will probably be a few days. I need to rig up a jig to cut these with my bandsaw instead of miter saw... green wood is hell on the $$ miter saw blade. |
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adding a post since I have a project in mind for some of this as soon as I can get to it, and don't want the thread to fall off into the archives just yet...
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Looks like Chinese elm to me
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Slant brakes and long stroke pistons, copper washed bullets and warm Slav mittens, brown Beech handguards dipped in lacquer streams; these are a few of my favorite things.
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Originally Posted By Inquisitive_Spaniard: Looks like Chinese elm to me View Quote Nope, pretty definitively mimosa... fluorescence is a dead giveaway. I still haven't made anything from it, other than the spatulas posted above. I'm going to try and turn some mushrooms... think the alternation in the grain might make some interesting patterns. Spring got here and I got way too busy to fiddle with it for a while though. |
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Originally Posted By midmo: Nope, pretty definitively mimosa... fluorescence is a dead giveaway. I still haven't made anything from it, other than the spatulas posted above. I'm going to try and turn some mushrooms... think the alternation in the grain might make some interesting patterns. Spring got here and I got way too busy to fiddle with it for a while though. View Quote Ah I didn’t see the fluorescent part. I looked again and the bark is off for Chinese elms as well. I should have come to this tech forum a long time ago. Slow but some cool stuff in here |
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Slant brakes and long stroke pistons, copper washed bullets and warm Slav mittens, brown Beech handguards dipped in lacquer streams; these are a few of my favorite things.
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