WIP - The big one :D

[carlb40]

Due to the tool box build slowing down until i sort the lacquer issue out, and the saw finishing. I thought it timely to ( re ) start a new project.

Actually i started it last year, well erm technically it was started over 12yrs ago when i purchased some timber for this project. Just had to check my CV to find out what year i was working for a company when i got this timber.

Any way this will be a mix of old reclaimed floor joists, also obtained around the same period as the purchased timber. So last year i started to de-nail and plane thickness some timber. I stopped as i got busy with work, plus i got p*ssed off with wrecking a brand new set of planer knives due to missing a screw shank. :evil:

I did start to note the hours worked on the timber, and if i can find it i will update this. I think i was at over 6hrs or more.

So forward to today, i had to plane up some ash for another ickle project, so i planed these timbers up as well.

Half of the timber, already cut to rough size.

Planed thicknessed up to rough size ready for the next stage.

Not sure but think it might be sapele? Any ideas?

I would have had more of this, but i was buying 2 pieces a week. Then on the 3rd week i went to get some more and probably the last lot, the merchants almost doubled the price of the timber Despite it being old stock, so it got left there.

So anyone work out what it is? :wink:

 

[Mar_mite]

Looks a lot like iroko. Or maybe it doubled in price because he thought it might be teak? What's it gonna be?

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

99% its Iroko

 

[Grahamshed]

Did you mean work out what the wood was or what the project was ?
From me it's no on both counts

 

[carlb40]

Looks a lot like iroko. Or maybe it doubled in price because he thought it might be teak? What's it gonna be?

99% its Iroko

It was just a normal local builders merchant, not a specialist timber merchant. Hence assuming it would just be sapele? Didn't think Iroko would get lumped in with general hardwood?

If it helps the timber is darker than the pics show, i think the light and flash didn't help.

 

[carlb40]

Did you mean work out what the wood was or what the project was ?
From me it's no on both counts

It was to work out both LOL.

 

[Grahamshed]

Did you mean work out what the wood was or what the project was ?
From me it's no on both counts

It was to work out both LOL.

OK No idea about the wood but I now know what the project is. Quite obvious really, its a left handed whojamawotsamacallit. What I cannot figure out is why you need a left handed one ?

 

[carlb40]

Well i find the left handed version easier to use. :lol:

 

[carlb40]

Will this give the game away? :shock:

 

[Grahamshed]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Not to me it won't, no

 

[carlb40]

:mrgreen:

 

[morfa]

I'd agree with Iroko as well. I thought that when I saw it before everyone else posted, so happy that I'm right. It's the speckling that's so distinctive.

After seeing the pic, I now know what it is, so I'm really looking forward to seeing the whole build. I won't give the game away just yet tho.

 

[carlb40]

Thought you might know

 

[SteveF]

build 2 please

save me the hassle

Steve

i know what it is

 

[AndyT]

I know what it is too!
;-)

 

[Grahamshed]

I am feeling distinctly inferior here

 

[Ian down london way]

If it is iroko, then be rearly careful with it. I used Iroko (and have one large plank left over) for the reconstruction of an koi pond bridge (handrails etc), but the dust is really nasty. Its the only think that has the potential to kick off my asthma, and I've not suffered from that for 40 years !

I'll give the plank away - I just can't face working it. Cost about £60 +.

 

[carlb40]

build 2 please

save me the hassle

Steve

i know what it is

I would, but i only just about have enough timber for one.

 

[carlb40]

I know what it is too!
;-)

Yes you are correct, it is what you said.

 

[carlb40]

If it is iroko, then be rearly careful with it. I used Iroko (and have one large plank left over) for the reconstruction of an koi pond bridge (handrails etc), but the dust is really nasty. Its the only think that has the potential to kick off my asthma, and I've not suffered from that for 40 years !

I'll give the plank away - I just can't face working it. Cost about £60 +.

I'm not convinced it is Iroko from the pics i have seen.

Colour and grain is more like this for most of it.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?client=f ... =0&ndsp=41