Woodchuck ALERT... exotic wood supply

Berk, that is my exact problem. I have several grain variations of Saatisal, from a light pinstripe to heavy broad stripes of dark amd light. Once finished and under light, they all show the same gold "chips" or "ribbons", and the dark stripes will either disappear or change color from dark to gold when turned in the light. Except for the gold (a sap grain, I believe) the wood has the color and characteristics of an oak species, but much more dramatic. I haven't had that much experience with teak (except furniture varieties) and it is dull in comparison. Most varieties of oak I have seen are identifiable as such by their "family resemblances", if you will. Rosewoods vary greatly, and are so prolific world wide that the variations are almost endless. The Indian rosewood used by Eagle Grips is from their own privately owned groves, and when I spoke with Raj there several years ago, he told me they had four other varieties they were cultivating that didn't even vaguely resemble what they were importing for grips. I've learned to look twice at Brit descriptions (well, Ben's are good, so far) so the "bastid teak" is suspect....these people do drive "Jag-you-ahrs", after all :rolleyes:
 
having once owned a '68 XK-E coupe. People were always pulling up next to me at stoplights and saying stuff like "Wow, what a beautiful car!", or "Mister, it looks like you're losing a lot of coolant!". Even with two electric fans, that sucker would boil like a teapot unless you kept it moving all the time.

Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Because they have Lucas refigerators.:)

Why didn't the Brits develop their own computers? They couldn't figure out how to make them leak oil.:)
 
Actually Oak and Teak are very different. Teak is a very oily/waxy closed grained wood very deep to golden brown with occasional streaks of green through it.

Where as Oak (there are close to fifty diffrent species of 'White Oak' alone) is a warm brown to an almost grey color. Some of the white oaks can easily be recongnized by the smell when they are cut... smells like a good bourbon.

Hope this helps.
 
Originally posted by Walosi
Berk, that is my exact problem. I have several grain variations of Saatisal, from a light pinstripe to heavy broad stripes of dark amd light. Once finished and under light, they all show the same gold "chips" or "ribbons", and the dark stripes will either disappear or change color from dark to gold when turned in the light. Except for the gold (a sap grain, I believe) the wood has the color and characteristics of an oak species, but much more dramatic. I haven't had that much experience with teak (except furniture varieties) and it is dull in comparison. Most varieties of oak I have seen are identifiable as such by their "family resemblances", if you will. Rosewoods vary greatly, and are so prolific world wide that the variations are almost endless
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Are we sure that all of the Saatisal is the same species?

Perhaps we could get some 'Saatisal' leaves sent from Nepal and try to track down a botanist (though I don't know if the leaf would be enough)? And/Or what about sending the kamis a disposable camera and having them (or someone) take some pictures of the Saatisal trees (or have we found a decent photo? Berk posted something I recall)?

Originally posted by Walosi
.....these people do drive "Jag-you-ahrs", after all :rolleyes:
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Jaguar was bought out by Ford - so it's your responsiblity now ;)

And it's 'jag-gwaahs' ;)

B.
 
There does appear to be more than one species of wood called Satisal, according to Nepali Google results.As Berk pointed out, the Dpterocarpus noted is a typo - Pterocarpus Marsupium looks like the most likely suspect, but all the web info focuses on the medicinal uses, which are vast enough to put the tree on the endangered list. "Dipterocarpi" don't seem to match, but are so varied that anything is possible. The common name associated with this group seems to be "Sangre". Probably the best source of info to clear this up would be Bhimsen and family, and their many years of hands-on lore.
 
Ah yes, British engineering is certainly a marvel... :)

I seriously thought about getting an old Triumph motorcicle when I was overseas. A good friend of mine (whose's hobby as a kid was riding/rebuilding them) told me that the first thing I HAD to do if I did get one, was to rip out ALL of the electrics and re-wire it myself. Great Bike... Bad electronics :D

I also had the pleasure to ride in an XJ-12 while in Germany. Now I know how they can sell cars that leak oil... I felt like I was floating on a CLOUD :cool: . Very nice. So I've always catagorized British scooters and cars in the same beloved place as old Harley's... something to be loved and cherished, but will NEED work and TLC over its lifespan...
 
...of Harley and "Trumpet" riders was "30 minutes of maintainence for every two hours of riding". Also, "Don't ride behind me - it's slick back there".
 
Maybe Hansel and Gretel designed the car. If you get lost, you just follow the oil spots home. It beats the bread crumb thing. :D
 
I had the Austin Healey. It leaked oil and woudn't start if the temp got below freezing. My buddy had the Jag XKE -- phenominal maintenance costs.
 
lovely engine, with carbs that had to be synchronized weekly, and one and a half inches of ground clearance. Was that the sound of a muffler scraping the pavement?:D
 
Synchronzing carbs :D Hold down the brass cut-out button on the left carb, turn the idle screw in and out on the right carb until the idle is smooth....switch, and repeat. Idle is now rough with both carbs running...start over. All this with a weak battery lantern, under the hood of a Volvo with the nearest street lamp on the wrong side of the backwards-lifting hood, in a snowstorm, halfway between Denver and Tulsa, late for Xmas, in a town in Kansas that doesn't even have a Ford dealer. Or electricity after 9:00 PM. Lucas made great units.:barf: BUT..when it was right, it ran like a pregnant she-bear in a meat market :eek:
 
If you had an Austin Healey you HAD to buy a manometer. I knocked off both mufflers crossing a railroad track. I stopped, picked them up and threw the mess into the jump seat. I got stopped by a cop on the way home for excess noise. I pointed to the junk, he shrugged and waved me on.

This is the way of most threads and a sign of how focused we all are.

My first car was a 1930 Ford Model A coupe -- bought it for fifty bucks. This should be good for about ten more meanderings.
 
My big brother's car when I was a little kid was a Model
A touring car, with wooden spoke wheels. The cheerleader girls out in west Texas used to love to ride around in that car. Then his best friend got an MG TD, and the cheerleaders migrated to that... As the little bro, I just watched this with amusement, and waited till I got my first wheels, a '59 VW Beetle with a cloth sunroof and turn signals in the side pillars. They don't make 'em like that anymore, for sure.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
How did the pal get cheerleaderS into the MG? The model A had it beat on capacity if nothing else.
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The more, the merrier:D I think they were more closely packed in the MG - I remember 4 people being shoehorned into it, and if two or three were cheerleaders, well,,, YaHoo!:cool:
 
Not, perchance, in the vicinity of Odessa?? Midland?? Kermit?? I grew up just west of that territory. When we weren't fighting over football rivalrys, we had some good times.
 
Well, I can remember packing 4 or 5 into the Model A couple but they were not all cheerleaders. Our school was so small if we had 4 cheerleaders there wouldn't have been anybody left in the stands.

Who was it? Will Rogers, I think, who said something like, "There's gotta be somebody left sitting on the curb to clap when the parade goes by."
 
I'm sure everyone will be interested to know that the word woodchuck doesn't really (or didn't really) have anything to do with wood. :rolleyes: ;)

It comes from either the Amerindian Algonqiuan (Cree) word otchek or wejek or the Amerindian Ojibwa word otchig. The process by which it turned into woodchuck is generally called 'folk-etymology'--that is, people hear an unfamiliar word and try to make it into something familiar. Thus ot becomes 'wood' and chek becomes 'chuck'.

From some reason I was thinking that this was another word for a beaver, which would make some sense in terms of the folk-etymology form 'otchek' to 'woodchuck', but turns out that a wood-chuck is a type of marmot, specifically the N. American 'ground-hog' (also called a 'whistle-hog' I discovered). The only way it would make sense is if 'chuck' is meant in the sense of 'to have done with', in which case 'woodchucks' would actually be creatures which avoid wood, but I doubt that's particularly true....

appros of nothing, just ran across this in a search for a good example of folk-etymology to support my argument (on another forum) that the notion of 'giant-made' swords in Beowulf actually originates from Germanic exposure to Celtic piled-swords (which, in 500BCE were 'superior technology') (I'm sure the connexion between woodchucks and Celtic piled-swords is perfectly clear to everyone? ;) )

B.
 
...is not appropriate, in relation to the term "Woodchuck", as used in this forum context. It derives not from linguistic nor historical confusion, but is, in fact, a literary allusion - Huey, Dewey an Louie, Jr. Woodchucks. :D :rolleyes:
 
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