Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
wood name
woodspinner/ Bill Hale
>I have had this piece of wood for years and I can not find anyone who can tell me what it is or where to get it. It is brown, green, and yellow. It is also an oily wood that is very very hard. It turned like AZ. Ironwood but it is not that. I got it in Texas somewhere in the West Central region but I do not remember where. It was a road side turning shop that made mostly plates etc.
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woodspinner/ Bill Hale
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Carl B.
>I have seen sweetgum with colors like that.It even had some purple in it.But it's not that hard and stinks like crazy when you work it.
You might find what you are looking for at this site.
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/index.htm
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Mike Schwing from Md.
>Thanks for that link! I have been trying to remember the name of that link for some time.
Check out the entries under "makore", at the bottom.
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Gil
>OK Mike the figure in that table is ridiculous. Will I find wood like this in Baltimore ;)? Why did you chose to not sand it at all?
-Gil
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Mike Schwing from Md.
>If you find wood like that around here Gil its all yours. I can never work with that stuff again, I am terribly allergic to it. It was not sanded at all because the figure in that wood was muddied by sandpaper. I used only hand tools, planes, and scrapers on that one. (except for the spindle) Sandpaper abrades the grain and muddies it up. A sharp plane and/or scraper shear it off and make a surface no sandpaper could ever match.
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Carl B.
>Glad I could help.
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Carl B.
>Mike that is one purty table.
I'll bet that wood is costly also.
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Leo Van Der Loo
>Could it be Lignum Vitae,? its hard heavy oily and the coulars look a lot like the piece I have.
Have fun and take care
Leo V
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Tom T
>It looks and sounds a lot like Mexican Ebony. It is a very oily, hard, tough to machine, smelly when green, tree found in south Texas and Mexico. It is often used for novelty items for the tourist trade. It is tough on tools, but finishes very well. The heart wood is dark and the sap wood is an amber or yellow color. It works pretty well when green, but tends to check and split as it dries.
