What type of wood is this?

Natlek said:
Well , if Hubert S. don t like it because he don t know what it is ....he can send it to me ...I like it , and i don t care is it kingwood or queenwood :)
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I enjoy experimenting with different species of wood. If anyone has any wood they would like to just get rid of or swap for some black walnut, I’m the guy. :)
 
I can promise it is not kingwood. Kingwood has a strong Purple/ golden tone to it with strong variation between rings.
 
Greenberg Woods said:
I can promise it is not kingwood. Kingwood has a strong Purple/ golden tone to it with strong variation between rings.
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Oh no, I don’t doubt you at all! I just could have convinced myself that there was color shift in the photo that might have made it less purple ... and photos I have seen of king wood show that pale heartwood.

Sounds like you are also keying off of the strong variation between rings? (Though sitting here, I do not know what that means ...
 
Cushing H. said:
Oh no, I don’t doubt you at all! I just could have convinced myself that there was color shift in the photo that might have made it less purple ... and photos I have seen of king wood show that pale heartwood.

Sounds like you are also keying off of the strong variation between rings? (Though sitting here, I do not know what that means ...
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Its based on a few things.

The first one is kind of an annoying answer, which is experience. Ive worked and sawn through hundreds nad hundreds of pounds of rosewoods and ebonies, and im particularly familiar with the variety of S.E asian ebonies that in the west are given the umbrella term Makassar/ Macassar. The main reason I think it looks like ebony is that, well, it looks like ebony.

As more specific reasons, look at the color shift, mainly in the bottom left of the photo. See how the brown and black slightly fade into each other? Thats a trait of ebony. High quality ebony has much stronger variegation, were the dark and light areas are clearly defined, but in rosewood that subtle bit of color shifting is almost completely absent. The Brown/ black shift is very typical of an ebony.

Theres also the color. Again, its just sort of experience. Rosewoods often have more red tones, and less of the light brown flecking.

The Only rosewoods this piece COULD have been in my opinion, Burmese Blackwood (Dalbergia Cultrata) or Laotian Rosewood "Dalbergia Lanceolaria) are both very very uncommon in the west, and have a very distinctive odor the OP would have noticed immediately.
 
I really appreciate all the information, Greenberg Woods Greenberg Woods . I looked at a lot of pictures of Macassar ebony, and most of them looked nothing like the piece I have. Then, I found some pictures of Amara ebony that looked very similar to my untrained eye. You obviously pick up a lot more detail in the pictures with your experience.

I'm hoping to make a couple of wa handles out of it sometime soon, but I'm still trying to figure out how to go about it.
 
Hubert S. said:
I really appreciate all the information, Greenberg Woods Greenberg Woods . I looked at a lot of pictures of Macassar ebony, and most of them looked nothing like the piece I have. Then, I found some pictures of Amara ebony that looked very similar to my untrained eye. You obviously pick up a lot more detail in the pictures with your experience.

I'm hoping to make a couple of wa handles out of it sometime soon, but I'm still trying to figure out how to go about it.
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Ebony is great wood for Wa handles. Let me know if you have any more questions.
 
What say you, the same wood?

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This was the one I was working on at the beginning of this thread. Interesting story. This was a kit blade with scales (from Woodcraft) brought to me by a father, an Army vet. His son, a Navy vet had bought the kit but had passed away prior to getting going on it. The father asked if I would make it up for him as he wanted to give it to his son's best friend who is still serving in the Navy, as a remembrance. When the dad came to pick it up he got out a wad of cash and asked what he owed me. I told him that we offer a Veteran's discount (which we do) and so with his discount, the son's discount and the friend's discount, we're good, thank you all for your service!
 
Dave - great story, and you STILL always do beautiful work!

don’t tell me, Though, that you still peened those Mosaics in the handle material? I tried that once (as an example experiment) and destroyed both the pins and the wood around them....
 
Cushing H. said:
Dave - great story, and you STILL always do beautiful work!

don’t tell me, Though, that you still peened those Mosaics in the handle material? I tried that once (as an example experiment) and destroyed both the pins and the wood around them....
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Thanks. No I don’t peen handle pins. Just the bolster ones.
 
I made something from the piece of wood last weekend. There was a pretty deep edge crack on the side with the sap wood, so it was not usable for a knife handle. The sap wood looked really good to me, though, so I wanted to make something from it rather than just cutting off the cracked part. I cut a thin strip from that side and glued it to another piece of wood to make a magnetic knife holder. I also cut some wa handle blanks from the wood.

The piece of ebony was given to me by a colleague and I gave him the magnet knife holder as a thank you. He sent me a couple of pictures of it that I thought I'd share. He made his first knife about a week ago (a kiridashi) and his goal is to replace the four knives you see in the picture with his own creations.

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Hubert S. said:
I made something from the piece of wood last weekend. There was a pretty deep edge crack on the side with the sap wood, so it was not usable for a knife handle. The sap wood looked really good to me, though, so I wanted to make something from it rather than just cutting off the cracked part. I cut a thin strip from that side and glued it to another piece of wood to make a magnetic knife holder. I also cut some wa handle blanks from the wood.

The piece of ebony was given to me by a colleague and I gave him the magnet knife holder as a thank you. He sent me a couple of pictures of it that I thought I'd share. He made his first knife about a week ago (a kiridashi) and his goal is to replace the four knives you see in the picture with his own creations.

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That looks great!
 
TheEdge01 said:
I enjoy experimenting with different species of wood. If anyone has any wood they would like to just get rid of or swap for some black walnut, I’m the guy. :)
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I could trade you some unshaped osage orange(it has been in the garage for a couple years but isn't quite seasoned) for an equal weight of walnut boards.
 
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