reclaimed mahogany

[speccyneil]

I've recently bought a stack of timbers, 5" x 3" and about 11' long. They are reclaimed from a 1950s McAlpine show farm and look to be Brazilian mahogany. I won't say what I paid for them and I have plans to make coffee tables with them but I'm curious to know what the going rate would be for such timbers. Many thanks.

 

[Digit]

Arm and a leg, a mortgage and probably a divorce when the wife finds out what the normal cost would be. [-o<

Roy.

 

[mailee]

Woo Hoo! about as rare as chickens lips I think. You lucky devil, my favourite wood. I am green with envy. :roll:

 

[wizer]

I'll give you £50 if you deliver

 

[Digit]

Ooooh wizer! Do be careful! :lol:

Roy.

 

[Sawdust]

I'll give you £50 if you deliver

Last of the big spenders!!

 

[John. B]

That would go for more than £50.00 per Cu Ft.......IF you could find some? [-o< :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[pinkyinboro]

i will give you £51 pound for it!! :lol:

 

[Digit]

Looks like a bidding war!

Roy.

 

[MIGNAL]

Straight grained & quarter sawn and I'm up to 80 notes per piece :shock:

 

[Ironballs]

Still after guitar necks Mignal!

 

[Lee J]

nah it's worthless mate - look, as I am a good citizen and I dont mind helping out a fellow forumer, I'll take them off your hands mate - no! dont thank me it's ok. I'll even give ya a fiver per piece for them - what a lad!

 

[HeathRobinson]

Hehe. Very nice

Out of interest how does one tell the difference between good Mahogany and the Sapele type stuff? Is it just the colour?

Last year when I was starting to get into woodworking I managed to get a pretty good stash of some reclaimed Mahogany too, from some very old church pews. Would be interested to work out what kind it actually is. Purchased it for a song when it was covered in varnish and gunge with the idea of it being something for me to mess around with. In the event I have ended up mostly working in Pine so far, and I assume that the Mahogany is probably a faux Mahogany but this is mainly out of a desire to spare myself any future disappointment. There is still a chance it may be good stuff.

Thanks for any pointers,

Simon

 

[woodbloke]

Out of interest how does one tell the difference between good Mahogany and the Sapele type stuff? Is it just the colour?

Simon

Simon - the genuine article is one of the premium cabinet woods and if you can lay your hands on some it's worth keeping hold off for those special jobs...a little trinket box for Miss Robinson perhaps? Sapele is good but the grain is often interlocked and 'rowed', that is is it reverses direction which accounts for the somewhat stripy effect when you look at the surface - Rob

 

[HeathRobinson]

OK, I didn't experience any troubles with the grain when I planed them after removing most of the gunge. There is a fair amount of it too so would have expected to meet with any nasties.

Tell ya what, I'll have a piece or two ready for inspection when we next meet up. So far I've made a pair of winding sticks with one of the boards (with some unknown white wood strips inlaid). The others are more like 2 x 3" posts and they're in sticked storage under the sofa.

PS. TNT just delivered my circular saw from Axminster as I was writing this! Woohoo! No time to play from here on in today though - doh! :?

 

[speccyneil]

Thanks for all the information. I was told it was mahogany and that's what it resembles most in the identification pictures, but that point about a turnip grain in sapele has got me doubtful now.

 

[Benchwayze]

There you go Neil Have a look on this site

http://www.sykestimber.co.uk/timber/bra ... ogany.html

HTH