Garage Sale Wood - ID?

It does look a good bit like macasar, but the stripes are a bit wide. What did it smell like when sawing it?

Whatever it is, It should make nice handles.

Personally, I have no use for an African fertility goddess, so handles are a much better use of the wood.
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
It does look a good bit like macasar, but the stripes are a bit wide. What did it smell like when sawing it?
Whatever it is, It should make nice handles.
Personally, I have no use for an African fertility goddess, so handles are a much better use of the wood.
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I am of the same bent Stacy. It smelled somewhat like ironwood.
 
Since it was once a fertility goddess, maybe it will work like oosik....make a drop point hunter with it, and if a pretty girl strokes the handle it will turn into a Bowie knife.
 
Sure looks like a lot of the cocobolo I've cut, and if the ironwood you are familiar with is Ipe, there would be a similarity in smell. I don't find ebony to be stinky, not that much smell to the ones I've cut.- ebony isn't a big tree, either, though you do occasionally see something that big...how big was it, anyway?
 
What a great score. How many scales or blocks are you going to get from it? However many, I'm sure that it's worth more than $1!
 
S.Alexander said:
What a great score. How many scales or blocks are you going to get from it? However many, I'm sure that it's worth more than $1!
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It was over a foot tall, without the head almost a foot, so a good usable chunk.
It think I'll get 10 or 12 scales out of it, and those about 5 by 2 inches wide, so maybe double that count on a thinner handle width.

It really seems to have about the same consistency as desert ironwood.
 
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