What is this wood?

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peppen108

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Did a grand slam today and got. Got the following load for 10$. It's really big pieces whit for instance pockenholz, compare the size with the reindeer antlers! There is a mystery wood in the bunch thou. I have given it a wipe to make the grain come out. What is this wood?

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I have been working with mango recently,and the grain structure and yellow coloring is consistant with mango. Just a guess!!!
 
Thanks. I have googled both and they both seems simular to the wood I have got.

The density is medium to high like an exotic wood and the color is darker than cherry. It has no tell tell smell.

Could it be teak or mahogany?
 
could definitely be teak...although that usually has a characteristic smell...
teak often has tiny white "inclusions" in the grain pores...I think they are silica, which accounts for the way teak dulls cutting tools
can't tell from the pics if you have those in that piece

Bill
 
I've used and worked with a ton of teak, and it looks very much like a low grade teak. Try sanding it a bit, or carving a sliver off the corner. Teak doesn't chip out like some woods and tends to have a pretty strong inter-grain bond. It also will have a slightly oily feel to it.


-Xander
 
I have cleaned up a corner and taken some more pictures in pale summer night light. Carving up some fresh wood it gave of that hard wood smell.

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Its not that easy to tell without holding it in your hand but it sure looks like walnut. Teak is also a valid guess though.

Brian
 
It carves like walnut and it smells similar to walnut.

The darker piece of wood is American walnut. Could this be British walnut?

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or Claro -- if it smells like walnut when cutting into it, it's not teak.
 
I have 2 large pieces of teak and neither even resembles that, I think black walnut or something similar...also the teak is very pungent when cut.
 
The long piece in the top picture looks to me like cherry. From what little I can see the spalted block looks like it could be beech. The other looks like walnut. The lower pictures with the long boards looks like walnut too. Air dried walnut has darker browns and purples vs. kiln dried. Kiln dried walnut is steamed to make white sapwood brown.

But then I see you are from Sweden. So ??
 
You guys are great! :)

The piece comes from an old workshop. The guy who had it was an old knives maker (well above 80 years) who had stopped making knives. He over heard me haggling about some tools an asked if i wanted to buy some knife making materials of him. So we drove to his house where he had the last pieces of his workshop in the garage. He pockenholz came from the harbor where it was used fore stern-tube bearings.

So all this taken in to account and judging from the pictures on this page

http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/

I think it might be walnut. Probably European in heritage. There is a possibility it might be Swedish since all of the other wood except fore the pockenholz was local.

The quest continues. :)
 
The latter pics look like walnut for sure. If it looks like and smells like then it is likely walnut. Looks like a decent piece, sand it to 600 and finish with danish oil, that's an easy way to go. Good old Tru-Oil looks great as well.


-Xander
 
I took the piece in my pocket today and showed it to various people whit knowledge of wood (furniture carpenter, guitar technicians etc.) today. I was not pleased whit the outcome. I had the guess whit out any prior knowledge and the result was walnut 5 - teak 2. No one seamed sure.

The only thing I learned was that it takes a mean polish because i rubbed it against my T-shirt as the day went by. This is whit no finishing compound.

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Just use the stuff. It will look fine. If anyone asks what it is, then tell them that it is either teak or walnut.
 
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