Wood ID?

[Grahamshed]

Thats a nice bowl Taz. Yew still has to be my favourite wood.

 

[KimG]

Another key factor in the original items appearance is the grain pattern, which, if you compare it with any Yew piece, shows the same overall look, whereas Laburnum has a decidedly gold appearance to the heartwood when freshly turned and like all the members of the pea family, displays a complex zig zag like pattern of cells in between the growth rings (easily visible) Note that Acacia, Iroko and Gorse all show the same characteristic. Walnut too has it's own distinctive patterns to the rings, and although I have only turned a small amount of it, the contrast between the sapwood and heartwood was much greater and the grain pattern closer and more complex, the dark wood was also a colder and much darker brown that is shown in the original pics. I am still sticking with Yew, it is far and away the most likely.

 

[mike-bolton]

Hi, thank for all the comments, I've took photos of the logs with the bark but I can't upload them it keeps saying the pic is to big so I'll have to leave it for know and see if I can sort it out another time

 

[mike-bolton]

Finally! In log form before turning

 

[Tazmaniandevil]

I would say not yew. Looks very like the chestnut I collected recently, colourwise. Not sure about the bark though.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

well......the plot thickens because that certainly doesn't look like yew bark. No twiggy bits...not chocolate brown enough...not flaky at all.

edit: Incidentally...just to link the two threads. Here is another thread that I was hoping might shed some light on this one in case it was missed:

yew-how-it-looks-from-log-to-turned-item-t76891.html

 

[Neil Farrer]

Think that the smell and weight might give it away, the grain on the original photo of the goblet is fairly wide, in keeping with a faster growing wood, the colour of the heartwood is right.

cedar.

 

[mike-bolton]

More pics of the unknown wood in this csse a little trinket box

 

[mike-bolton]

Hi,

The logs are fairy heavy for there size and fairly hard, easy to cut but tended to heat my chisel up a bit but that may be due to a dull edge, as for smell it didnt.

 

[MMUK]

Looks like it *could* be ash maybe? The unturned log does look as though it's had some trimming down so I'd imagine what bark there is isn't complete.

 

[KimG]

The log has been in a shop for sometime by the look of it, it has a waxed end and looks pretty dried out, that would explain the lack of flakes (plus the image is out of focus) the grain pattern again in the second images is that of a softwood, not a hardwood, Ash while it sometimes has a darker heartwood (Olive Ash) is certainly not red/orange like these, I am still sticking with Yew, the second set of items are more like Yew than any other wood.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

its certainly a mystery...I was convinced of Yew too based on the turned piece but seeing the log has wobbled me

 

[mike-bolton]

Hi,

The fella i bought the lathe off had it listed as an ex demo lathe and had never really used it since he bought it, so im guessing the wood had been sat in the box for some time. Ive had a look through the box and theres plenty of odds and sods, some wood labeled ovangkol, various sized bowl blanks, segmented blanks one thin the other thick, pen blanks (i think) and an unusual looking thing that looks a bit like a bee hive about the size of a pine cone.

 

[Grahamshed]

and an unusual looking thing that looks a bit like a bee hive about the size of a pine cone.

A Banksia nut ?

 

[mike-bolton]

Hi Graham,

Yeh i think your right, ive just been looking online to see if i could find out what it was and it looks a lot like a banksia pod.

Any ideas what to do with it?

 

[Grahamshed]

There are others here who could tell you a lot more but if you watch some Youtube clips you will see that they are VERY messy.

 

[Neil Farrer]

I lay a bit bet that it's not yew. The growth rings are too far apart. My next vote would be Douglas fir looking at the two pics of the box.

 

[jurriaan]

Can you post a sharp, detailed picture of the bark? I'm thinking laburnum at the moment, but I'm not really sure.

 

[Neil Farrer]

Can you post a sharp, detailed picture of the bark? I'm thinking laburnum at the moment, but I'm not really sure.

It's the wrong colour for laburnum, laburnums green and much closer grained, this is orangish.

 

[Vic Perrin]

I think I'll go with the Yew vote