What's this wood?

C L Wilkins

C L Wilkins

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This is a picture of a native wood from Texas. Maybe one of you fellow Texans can tell me what it is. A fellow from Uvalde gave me a piece of it a couple of years ago and the heartwood is a actually a green color. I have seen the tree (more like a bush) while deer hunting near Del Rio. The leaves are always green and it has red berry, which is more like a very hard nut. What is it? It is really nice wood, I don't believe it will need to be stabilized. I just thought some of you folks may know.

C Wilkins

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Phillip,
Mesquite is of the same family as a mimosa, raintree, or in your part of the country, pomosa. These species do not produce a hard, smooth red nut like the wood in question. Mesquite is a dark red/brown wood that produces a bean pod, just like mimosa. This wood has geen hue and will turn a dark green with age.

It is not sumac or huisach (spelling?) either.
This is more of a bush than a tree. It is not chile piquin either.

This grows in a very dry, if not desert climate. It is extremely dry in Del Rio, Texas.

Tom,
If push comes to shove, I may take you up on your offer but this a very regional wood.

C Wilkins
 
Is mimosa any good for handles? Has anyone used it?

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I picked up a set of Mimosa scales at a show once and it was beautiful.It worked real well and I havent heard of any problems from the man who bought the Knife and its been around three years know.Been trying to find some more of it,guess I will just have to go and pull the only bush of it around my house out of the neighbors field-Ha-Ha-Ha

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My guess would be a persimmon of some kind, They are rather common around that area, have red berries with a hard center,are more like bushes than trees,and are a hardwood, maybe i'm wrong, but it matches in my head
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Sounds like mulberry to me. Just a guess though from the description of the tree.

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Sounds like an Ebony tree to me. This tree has dark green small leaves and produces a bean pod with hard red beans inside. This wood is one of the hardest woods found in Texas, and would not need to be stabilized.
 
The internet is an amazing thing! I have received a few emails from this posting and the wood is called Guyacan (pronounced WAY-uh-CON). This is a very nice looking wood. Although I tend to shy away from wood for scales unless stabilized, I have stumbled across some really, really nice looking wood.

I suppose my description threw some folks off. The nut, which is actually more like a red acorn is very hard.

As far as the reply about persimmon goes, persimmon wood is somewhat of yellowish to pink wood with pink or red specks thoughout the grain.

C Wilkins

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