ManowarDave
Fighting the World
Evening all,
The piece of timber in the subsequent pictures was found in the garage when we moved into the house nearly 5 years ago. The old gent who lived here before us loved his gardening and had used the garage as a potting shed. His potting bench was quite unique. The top was a higgledy piggledy layering of old boards, mostly from what looked like old furniture pieces. Most of this was old contiboard, bits of ply and the like but there were a couple of nice pieces of dovetailed oak bookcase pieces and some other gems.
This piece was grey and filthy on the outside and pretty unremarkable but looked to be of a useful size and thickness (approx 16" x 39" x 1 1/4") and got rendered to the bottom of the "I'll take a look at that one day" pile.
Well, for no particular reason that day was today. I took a no4 to it and was quite surprised by a nice reddish chocolate colour. Similarly surprising (for me at least) was that it was a single board. I'd expected it to be at least two or three smaller boards glued together.
Ive been working with some Sapele lately from the old gate I removed from the front of the house last year and first thought was that's what it was. However, when I compared the two the sapele was more orangey and the unidentified slab more brown. The shavings bare up the colour difference too. The grain is similar although that on the slab seems tighter and less porous.
Does anyone else have any thoughts?
The first photo looks lighter than in reality, the others are a better colour match but my phone camera is not the best at color reproduction.
The last photo shows a piece of the sapele held in front. The difference is more pronounced in the flesh.
TIA
Dave
The piece of timber in the subsequent pictures was found in the garage when we moved into the house nearly 5 years ago. The old gent who lived here before us loved his gardening and had used the garage as a potting shed. His potting bench was quite unique. The top was a higgledy piggledy layering of old boards, mostly from what looked like old furniture pieces. Most of this was old contiboard, bits of ply and the like but there were a couple of nice pieces of dovetailed oak bookcase pieces and some other gems.
This piece was grey and filthy on the outside and pretty unremarkable but looked to be of a useful size and thickness (approx 16" x 39" x 1 1/4") and got rendered to the bottom of the "I'll take a look at that one day" pile.
Well, for no particular reason that day was today. I took a no4 to it and was quite surprised by a nice reddish chocolate colour. Similarly surprising (for me at least) was that it was a single board. I'd expected it to be at least two or three smaller boards glued together.
Ive been working with some Sapele lately from the old gate I removed from the front of the house last year and first thought was that's what it was. However, when I compared the two the sapele was more orangey and the unidentified slab more brown. The shavings bare up the colour difference too. The grain is similar although that on the slab seems tighter and less porous.
Does anyone else have any thoughts?
The first photo looks lighter than in reality, the others are a better colour match but my phone camera is not the best at color reproduction.
The last photo shows a piece of the sapele held in front. The difference is more pronounced in the flesh.
TIA
Dave
