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Brion
>Hi All !!!
Long time, no post.
Does anyone have ANY idea what species this is or might be???
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#2Wood ID - Image 2
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#3Wood ID - Image 3
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#4Wood ID - Image - Final
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Dale Lenz-Tahlequah, OK
>Hi Brion,
The second pics look similar to elm or possible hackberry. The brown spots appear to be some sort of compartmentalization from a previous injury. Sycamore and soft maple has many of those marking around here. It's very difficult to see the grain from your pictures. If you'd like to send me a sample, I'd give it my best shot...Dale
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#6Wood ID - Image - Final
Brion
>O'Siyo,
and thanks for the response. sorry about the quality of the images. I used a digCam and then had to sharpen and then crunch all the pixels down to a reasonable size.
The boards I took photo's of have been hacked into 2 coffe table tops ( one of them even has a sycamore bowl inset into it ). That blemish you see, is actually a knot that completely pierces the board ( the board started out 12" x 72" x 8/4) and this plank was completely peppered with them. I bought this board from a place called Cook Woods ( which gave me the worst customer Service I have ever received BTW ) and the fella there told me the wood was called Sipo (pronounced - Zee-po). But it dosen't look anything like it. ( see Image below )
Even though it looks like a giant Banksia Pod in plank form, I'm beginning to think it's a sub- species of Mahoghany. Despite the knots, it works very much like the Kia and Red Merante I've been working as of late and I've been accelerating the Photo-Oxidization an it ages the same.
I'll see about taking some more, better images and if that does'nt work, maybe I have a viewable off I can snail mail to you.
Cheers