Yet another wood ID

[Myfordman]

Any ideas please? Rescued from someone elses scrap bin

Density is very low at 0.48. Really feels lightweight.
Some photo with any without a wipe over with white spirit to show the grain but this makes it significantly darker
Thanks.

 

[Myfordman]

Oops “with AND without”

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Ygiagam. Definitely.

 

[Ttrees]

Any hints or red, then I'd vote red grandis.

 

[niall Y]

Possibly Lauan ( Meranti ) can be very lightweight and ranges in colour from pale fawn to dark red,

 

[Myfordman]

Any hints or red, then I'd vote red grandis.

It is quite pink but no red tints/flecks if that is what you meant. Red Grandis - a eucalytpus/gum tree. Denisty normally quoted around 0.6 but some references say it varies with age and can get as low as 0.41 at 4 years old. So I think you might be on the right track!

 

[Myfordman]

Possibly Lauan ( Meranti ) can be very lightweight and ranges in colour from pale fawn to dark red,

Another good shout! Thanks
I guess is is a bit academic but I'm making a gift for a mate and would be nice to tell him what it is although he is not a woody. It will be a base for an illuminated skull and might look best overall if it were painted satin black.

 

[Ttrees]

I do see pink shades on some, now you say it.
I've only about 10 bits of the stuff, and I.D'd it from your place actually,
and not found anything quite as stringy, which is the giveaway to me,
as I've not seen anything which displays such evident long grain pores,
more like straws than anything else.
I suppose there are aplenty of similar stuff from the far east,
not like any interlocked meranti stock I have though.

 

[Hornbeam]

Could be obeche but this often has interlocked grain

 

[the great waldo]

IROKO ?

Cheers
Andrew

 

[RogerS]

What does it smell like? If it smells like dung then my money is on zebrano

 

[the great waldo]

A Zebra without stripes? I don't think so.
Cheers
Andrew

 

[recipio]

Looks like all that horrible pink plywood the big chains sell. It's got to be Lauan/Meranti/ Philippines Mahogany which is hard but light. It will find a use somewhere - just can't think of one at the moment .

 

[Yojevol]

Could be balsa. The balsa we use for modelling is sapwood. The appearance and description agree with that in Nick Gibbs 'The Wood Handbook'
Brian