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Ian Dodd
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 Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:38 am Post subject: Help me ID this wood? |
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I'm getting ready to build myself a little box to hold the Japanese
chisels SWMBO gave me for Xmas (I transport them back and forth to the
community college for my WW class). I decided to make it out of some
walnut left over from last semester but with an interesting top of
some sort.
At the local Rockler store today I was sorting through their selection
of "box top" material (swear to God it was labeled that way). Mostly
burl slices and spalted this and thats. I found one I really like and
brought it home, but I'm not sure what it is and the guy behind the
counter couldn't help me. I'll try to describe it as best I can; if
anybody has a good guess, I'd be interested.
The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
send a picture.
TIA,
Ian |
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Joe_Stein (formerly KB8QL
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:55 am Post subject: Re: Help me ID this wood? |
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How about uploading the picture to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking?
So we can all look at it. That's what most folks on here do.
Good luck.
Joe
"Ian Dodd" <iandodd@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I'm getting ready to build myself a little box to hold the Japanese
chisels SWMBO gave me for Xmas (I transport them back and forth to the
community college for my WW class). I decided to make it out of some
walnut left over from last semester but with an interesting top of
some sort.
At the local Rockler store today I was sorting through their selection
of "box top" material (swear to God it was labeled that way). Mostly
burl slices and spalted this and thats. I found one I really like and
brought it home, but I'm not sure what it is and the guy behind the
counter couldn't help me. I'll try to describe it as best I can; if
anybody has a good guess, I'd be interested.
The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
send a picture.
TIA,
Ian |
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Werlax
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:01 am Post subject: Re: Help me ID this wood? |
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Ian Dodd wrote:
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Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
send a picture.
Can you just post it to ABPW? |
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imaginuity
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Help me ID this wood? |
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as wood usually photographs CRAP maybe you could scan it and then post it to
the binaries group suggested.
Steve
"Ian Dodd" <iandodd@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I'm getting ready to build myself a little box to hold the Japanese
chisels SWMBO gave me for Xmas (I transport them back and forth to the
community college for my WW class). I decided to make it out of some
walnut left over from last semester but with an interesting top of
some sort.
At the local Rockler store today I was sorting through their selection
of "box top" material (swear to God it was labeled that way). Mostly
burl slices and spalted this and thats. I found one I really like and
brought it home, but I'm not sure what it is and the guy behind the
counter couldn't help me. I'll try to describe it as best I can; if
anybody has a good guess, I'd be interested.
The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
send a picture.
TIA,
Ian |
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George
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Help me ID this wood? |
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Sounds like aged birdseye maple. The transition zone from sap to heartwood
isn't always cinnamon colored, but can have mineral staining - green to
black - in it as well. If you get wood from the vicinity of an injury site,
it can really show a lot of variation.
"Ian Dodd" <iandodd@comcast.net> wrote in message
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The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
send a picture.
TIA,
Ian |
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