Wood ID: Mystery wood #1

I don’t know what type of wood it is but I know you will make some beautiful canes from it!

Lew

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Go here and post it they can probably help you other than that I would say Amboyna or Mallee.

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Oh my that is stunning and knowing your skill i want to see what you make from it please

Andy

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Beautiful piece of wood. But no additional knowledge.

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If I were to guess, I’d say Jarrah burl because it looks to be too brown to be Mallee, although that could be an artifact of the photo. It’s got to be one of those Australian Eucalyptus species burl.

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Looks like Borwn Mallee to me. There is a Red version too. Either way it is almost definately a eucalyptus variety.

-- Patrick

Thanks for the input.

The color of the photo is pretty accurate as it is a brown wood, not red, but it may have an oil finish on it. I have not scrapped or sanded any of it to reveal unpolished wood. As you can see it has some voids but it’s otherwise pretty solid and dense. The shape is pretty odd, but I don’t have an immediate need to cut it and so it sits as a dust collector on a side table.

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dinosaur egg….should make great omelet. : )

I am thinking … red mallee... I actually surfaced a burl of red mallee at the Adelaide Timber and Working with Wood show in June and looked very similar…

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