Help identifying a mystery wood.

[02sheslop]

Here's a scan, just linked because it's huge for the sake of grain detail. The full jpeg is 50x50mm.

http://www.iforce.co.nz/i/goyjqbbs.iq5.jpg

It came in a box of various bits of hardwoods, which I bought as a kind of sample pack because whoever owned them took good care in labelling the wood type on nearly every piece.

I don't care much for the look of burls, but it smells fantastic.

Any help identifying it would be appreciated.

 

[02sheslop]

I've fixed the link so now you can just click on it. I took the thing to the builders merchants today but forgot to ask the fella if he had any idea by the time I got there.

I also found another one in the box bookmatched to the first. I figure the guy was using these for knife handles. They're only 10x4cm but with two of them I could maybe rout the inside out and make a shallow box for something.

 

[marcros]

Where is it from- is the .co.nz link relevant to it?

I would suggest burr walnut. Seems a shame to rout it out just for the sake of using something you don't like. It would make a nice knife handle.

 

[wellywood]

You beat me to it. I would say walnut. Definitely a shame to rout it out with all that waste. How thick are the pieces? If thick enough you could maybe bandsaw them and make a box that way.

 

[nev]

I had a piece of what was labelled BU 1 that had similar swirls and colouring (maybe a little redder) but possibly bubinga?

 

[deserter]

I'd of said it was more like pomelle sapele than walnut.


~Nil carborundum illegitemi~

 

[02sheslop]

Both pieces are about 8mm thick so I could bandsaw them. The box idea was more to take advantage of the smell since you could get away with not finishing the inside. It'd be a shame to waste the smell on something like veneer or marquetry.

In my experience walnut smells like urine and has a more grey-ish brown colour. This wood has a cedarish smell. Looking at google image results it does look like a bubinga burl so i'll ask if there's any in stock next time i'm buying wood.

Thanks for the help!

 

[bugbear]

Here's a scan, just linked because it's huge for the sake of grain detail. The full jpeg is 50x50mm.

http://www.iforce.co.nz/i/goyjqbbs.iq5.jpg

Hmm. Nice resolution, poor focus (or perhaps camera shake), which rather reduces the detail.

BugBear

 

[02sheslop]

Here's a scan, just linked because it's huge for the sake of grain detail. The full jpeg is 50x50mm.

http://www.iforce.co.nz/i/goyjqbbs.iq5.jpg

Hmm. Nice resolution, poor focus (or perhaps camera shake), which rather reduces the detail.

BugBear

It's actually a scan! I'm not too upset about the detail since it's about as good as my camera could get it, but it does kill the contrast.

http://iforce.co.nz/i/kfa5xkzt.3z3.jpg

Here's a huge photo with my disgusting greasy thumb for scale.

 

[SteveF]

what is the wood below it please?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Amboyna burr?

 

[Kalimna]

On your first, somewhat hazy, image I thought maybe camphor burl (partly the smell, partly the look in comparison to a turning blank I have), but the thumb-for-reference piccy suggest bubinga most definitely.

Cheers,
Adam

 

[02sheslop]

what is the wood below it please?

The desk surface? It's a piece of veneered particle board from Ikea. I think the veneer is oak, although it doesn't make a very good desk surface with the open (and unfilled) grain.

On your first, somewhat hazy, image I thought maybe camphor burl (partly the smell, partly the look in comparison to a turning blank I have), but the thumb-for-reference piccy suggest bubinga most definitely.

Cheers,
Adam

Thanks very much. I guess I should've taken a photo in the first place instead of trying to be clever.