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Offline tsriberio

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Please Help ID This Wood
« on: April 19, 2020, 01:24:06 PM »
It has a really cool reddish brown hue. Bubinga? Some sort of mahogany?

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2020, 01:53:28 PM »
I would guess Mahogany.  :dunno:
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2020, 02:11:42 PM »
Looks like mahogany, but it also looks like jatoba. Hard to tell without being hands on.
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2020, 02:12:44 PM »
Can you post a good close up and a shot of the endgrain?
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2020, 06:05:32 PM »
I vote Wenge.  A great wood.   

Can't tell much from that distant of view.
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2020, 06:50:01 PM »
Purple heart?
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2020, 09:20:38 PM »
Looks like bubinga to me. How heavy is it?

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2020, 03:37:02 PM »
Bubinga is my guess.

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2020, 08:00:58 PM »
Mongolian tulip  :archer2:
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2020, 08:12:21 PM »
Mongolian tulip  :archer2:

Is that even a real thing?

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2020, 08:15:04 PM »
Of course it is. Next time l’m in mongolia, I’ll bring some back. 😉🤔
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2020, 08:18:53 PM »
Of course it is. Next time l’m in mongolia, I’ll bring some back. 😉🤔
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2020, 08:22:31 PM »
Sorry, I’m just kidding.
I’m being deprived of turkey hunting this spring and my sense of humour is a bit off.
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2020, 10:21:40 PM »
Mongolian tulip  :archer2:

Is that even a real thing?
It’s pretty rare. Grows in some of the darkest hollers in PA.
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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2020, 09:03:43 PM »
I go with Bubinga too

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2020, 08:45:33 AM »
without a close up of the grain, I vote bubinga. Colors are a funny thing and cameras don't always portray them honestly.

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2020, 08:53:22 AM »
Perfect example of Mongolian tulip wood.

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2020, 12:29:45 AM »
Glad you are back on deck Roy, even if your eyesight is wonky!! :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2020, 08:28:46 PM »
Mongolian tulip  :archer2:

Is that even a real thing?
It’s pretty rare. Grows in some of the darkest hollers in PA.
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Just on a small patch a land in paintertown pa..no where else.

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Re: Please Help ID This Wood
« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2020, 12:51:57 PM »
I can not be sure from the picture but it looks like Teak to me I use a lot on boats if is oily feeling then it probaly is.
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