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SaleenM98

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220 days ago

Topic tags/keywords: mystery wood question

Please forgive me if this is posted in the incorrect topic section—I wasn’t sure where else to put this.

I have a chest of drawers made of a very heavy, very dense wood. My father-in-law carved a stump of this same wood that he found on the side of the road [read: someone’s trash] in Baton Rouge, La.

While he was cutting it, he said the wood was so difficult to work with that the stump dulled his chainsaw. It was also so dense, he said, that the chainsaw even bounced or skidded a little.

Untreated, the colors in the grain range from a dark beige to deep brown. These photos show varnish or a sealant on the wood, so the colors are light gold to nearly black in the darkest spots.

Neither he nor I have any clue what type of wood this is, but I suspected it to be pecan or grafted walnut [though I’m not entirely sure what “grafted” means].

Does the grain or description look familiar to anyone? Thank you so much.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/5ryNrOipEDgIc2yAtU7MsQ?feat=directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xO9JfQ6MeWFY4_ZJffWZhA?feat=directlink

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CharlieM1958

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220 days ago

Looks like hickory to me.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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a1Jim

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220 days ago

I guess I’m going with Charlie

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juniorjock

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220 days ago

That’s what it looks like to me.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/hickory.htm

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SaleenM98

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220 days ago

Wow. Ya’ll are a HUGE help! Hickory it is.

Thanks so much!

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Ted79

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220 days ago

Hi everybody! Loving the textural beauty and allure of antique Wood Type, I wanted to make available an easy to use, Hi-Res Digital Toolkit for today’s artists and designers. From it’s Classical uses in posters and broadsheets, to the visual delights of the Modernist Avant-Garde, Wood Type has a charm all its own. Have fun! Go & Play! It’s all about the TEXTURES. Digital fonts won’t make this good an impression!

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Ted79

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220 days ago

Hi everybody! Loving the textural beauty and allure of antique Wood Type, I wanted to make available an easy to use, Hi-Res Digital Toolkit for today’s artists and designers. From it’s Classical uses in posters and broadsheets, to the visual delights of the Modernist Avant-Garde, Wood Type has a charm all its own. Have fun! Go & Play! It’s all about the TEXTURES. Digital fonts won’t make this good an impression!

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