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What wood is this?

Post by TimS » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:38 pm

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Originally Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:04 pm

This is an easy one so no clues!
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Post by Allen » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:03 pm

Silky Oak?
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Post by kiwigeo » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:04 pm

A close up of Tim's tongue after a really hot Indian take away?
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Post by Allen » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:05 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:

How did I miss that one Martin. That's it for sure.
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Post by TimS » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:06 pm

Sorry, NOT tongue-wood!!
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Post by Steve » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:07 pm

If it's not one of the silky-oaks, how about Banksia something-or-otherus?

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Post by btjjdb » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:09 pm

Sheoak?

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Re: What wood is this?

Post by Kim » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:10 pm

On the off chance that the answer has not already been revealed, how about bulloak?? Very much like banksia/native pear though.
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Post by TimS » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:10 pm

The word 'bull' is of significance here.
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Post by Kim » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:11 pm

So Bull oak, bull sheoak, buloak, Allocasuarina luehmannii is not it then??

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Post by TimS » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:12 pm

You're so close, Kim ... think bovine, cow, steak, etc, etc ... crikey, I'm practically telling you what it is :wink: .
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Post by matthew » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:13 pm

so .... beefwood

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Post by TimS » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:15 pm

Matthew ... genius! Yes, it's grevilia striata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea_striata
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Post by matthew » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:15 pm

I'm, like, so clever.

is that the same as casuarina cunninghami?

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Post by Kim » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:16 pm

Whoap, back at the PC for a tick and Matt has grabbed the prize and rightfully so to...so Tim this week was the candy a creamy white master set of euro for a double bass ??? Laughing Laughing Laughing

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Post by TimS » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:17 pm

I think not! But you have done well.
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Post by kiwigeo » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:18 pm

matthew wrote:
I'm, like, so clever.


We had noticed.....

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Re: What wood is this?

Post by DarwinStrings » Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:08 pm

This thread at the time illustrated to me how difficult it can be to identify the species from a pic. I had a piece of Beefwood sitting right in front of me when Tim posted this but though "Na it's not that".

Here is the bit of wood I compared it to and I know it is beefwood as it says so in black texta on it.
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Post by Taffy Evans » Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:02 pm

I have never got any of the timbers right, I did not even get the NGR posted recently, and I've got a shit load of the stuff. The camera must lie????
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Post by Kim » Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:46 pm

Toejam wrote:This thread at the time illustrated to me how difficult it can be to identify the species from a pic. I had a piece of Beefwood sitting right in front of me when Tim posted this but though "Na it's not that".

Here is the bit of wood I compared it to and I know it is beefwood as it says so in black texta on it.

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To be fair the original image was lost in the hack so when I reconstructed this thread I just used a generic image from google. Since then Tim has emailed me a couple of images one of which may have been the original from this post so without further ado here they are:

OK I'll be nice :)
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Post by DarwinStrings » Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:06 pm

Thanks for clearing that up Kim. Regardless of the image I still, at the time it was posted with the original pic, I looked at the sample I had and disregarded it thinking Tim's sample was some sort of casurina or maybe banksia. I am not saying anyone is using misleading pics, just that at times it can be very difficult to work out a wood from a photo. Sometimes it is easy like there's not much that you could mistake for black heart sassafras. It is like when someone asks me to tell them what sort of timber their coffee table is, I might say "Hmmm well it looks like X wood, do you know where it came from?". More often than not they won't let me saw it up to smell it or see what it looks like on a fresh cut. :). For me these "name that wood" threads are a lot of fun and a education but you wouldn't want you life riding on whether you get it right of not.

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Post by John Maddison » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:52 pm

Here's the original image for this thread; Tim was staying here on one of his many sleepovers when, after a glass of red or three, we decided to run one of his regular Sunday night "What Wood is This" posts. The wood had been wetted with Shellite to highlight the grain prior to the image being taken. (BTW - this sheet of beefwood came from my stash that Allen Mc & Micheal C never uncovered on previous Playmakers visits to Albany :lol:).
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