I trust Aaron's opinion but I am curious what he see's that is the dead give away. Perhaps it's just experience. I was never good with these type threads
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| Author: | Dave Livermore [ Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | ID this wood |
Attachment: 48848452-ACD8-4632-AF6A-5BA7B5E3B34D.jpeg Please let me know Attachment: F745B7B1-0AAE-4A27-B49E-A5B974800395.jpeg what you think this wood is. I think it is ziricote. Never worked with ziricote before. It REALLY gummed up the thickness sander. Thanks |
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| Author: | J De Rocher [ Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ID this wood |
Bocote? |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:41 pm ] |
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It's hard to tell from a picture - possibly bocote, ziricote, or lauro preto, come to mind, but a number of other woods are possible. Personally, I would be inclined to trim off the sapwood and then book match the other way to maximize what appears to be the quarter sawn portion of the board and minimize the off quarter wood. Before I trim wood off I hold a mirror 90 degrees to the wood on the proposed trim line to see what the book match will look like. |
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| Author: | Bryan Bear [ Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:51 pm ] |
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I’m with Clay, accept, I’d leave the sapwood. |
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| Author: | bcombs510 [ Sun Jan 16, 2022 10:11 pm ] |
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Bryan Bear wrote: I’m with Clay, accept, I’d leave the sapwood. +1 I also would guess ziricote or bocote. If you sand it and it smells like pickles it’s bocote. I’ve built a few with both. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Sun Jan 16, 2022 10:15 pm ] |
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Here is some lauro preto under finish: |
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| Author: | A.Hix [ Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:58 pm ] |
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ziricote |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:15 pm ] |
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J De Rocher wrote: Bocote? That was my first thought too. |
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| Author: | Pmaj7 [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:49 am ] |
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Ziribocote Pat |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:20 am ] |
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Cocobolo? |
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| Author: | Mark Mc [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:55 am ] |
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Looks like bocote to me, and it is oily so clogs up the sandpaper as you describe. If it is bocote - like Brad said - the smell will confirm it. I don't think of pickles; more like a citrus smell to me; but pickled lime could be right. Anyway, quite a distinctive and spicy smell. Zirocote smells more like chocolate. Zebrawood can look like that too, but usually more yellow. You can easily know that one by its smell - horse poop. |
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| Author: | Herr Dalbergia [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ID this wood |
For me thats a 99,9% hit for Bocote, the siter of Ziricote. The plates sould be jointed the other way round, like stated above. It COULD be also Ziricote, put for me, now, that´s Bocote.... |
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| Author: | wbergman [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:44 am ] |
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Although I might have joined it the other way around, I think this joining actually makes a marvelous display of the figure. |
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| Author: | A.Hix [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:12 am ] |
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its 100% ziricote |
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| Author: | rbuddy [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:49 pm ] |
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My first thought was bocote and maybe ziricote. Daves wood has some features that don't fit what I think is often typical of those woods. But I took the top 3 billets of bocote from a pile, a reject ziri side and a couple ziri fingerboard billets and snapped some pictures. All the pics are fairly typical of what I see in those woods. I think Daves wood is ziri or maybe something else all together. With flash Attachment: DSCN4184.JPG LED shop lighting Attachment: DSCN4186.JPG Attachment: DSCN4188.JPG
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ID this wood |
I trust Aaron's opinion but I am curious what he see's that is the dead give away. Perhaps it's just experience. I was never good with these type threads
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