Wood ID required

[resnikov]

When I moved in to my current house the pervious owner left some wood in the grage. One of the planks is about 12ft long and really heavy. I am trying to figure out what sort of wood it is and if I could then use it for knife scales or something.

Any ideas what it is?

 

[HillBill]

The top pic made me think Walnut initially, but the bottom one has changed my mind. Not sure what it is tbh. Perhaps a mahogany?

Heavy = dense = hardwood = good knife scales.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

What does it smell like ?....................not sure it would make good knife scales as looking at the second photo (top view) it seems to have a lot of splits.

Edit: I asked what it smelt like as it looks a little like ceder, but that could be my screen

 

[Teepee]

It looks like Utile to me but could be mahogany ?

 

[HillBill]

it seems to have a lot of splits.

I'm not sure they are splits, you get a few species of wood with that effect.

 

[toilet digger]

i turned some teak the other day and that looks very similiar.

 

[HillBill]

My brother brought some home from work that was similar, very dense and hard. He said it was what a new machine had been brought in on. It blunted my chainsaw blade before it got through a 6" square section. I used it on a couple of knife handles but found it to be brittle in thinner sections. Perhaps this is something similar?

 

[mountainm]

The grain in the second photo looks similar to the grain I had on an old teak drop leaf table.

 

[Tadpole]

from the end grain, it looks like Iroko

 

[krung]

I think it looks like Nyatoh - http://www.google.dk/search?q=Nyato...&biw=1920&bih=1085&sei=UDgMT8nZDIXMswbcldmVBA

 

[mountainm]

My money is still on teak

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

 

[HillBill]

The end grain looks similar to a few things mentioned. But the side grain doesn't match up to any of them.

 

[shaggystu]

from the end grain, it looks like Iroko

that was my thought too

 

[Hugo]

I had some Iroko that looked very much the same.

 

[mountainm]

I had some Iroko that looked very much the same.

Here's a page for Iroko
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/iroko.htm

 

[resnikov]

Been having a play with the wood this weekend for scales on my knife. Was practising my woodworking skills which have not been used since high school about 20 years ago and I found the wood to be very brittle. A light tap with a hammer had it breaking in to bits. It was very clean breaks. So I don't think it will be any use for scales. Need to see if I can use it for anything else.

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[mountainm]

Been having a play with the wood this weekend for scales on my knife. Was practising my woodworking skills which have not been used since high school about 20 years ago and I found the wood to be very brittle. A light tap with a hammer had it breaking in to bits. It was very clean breaks. So I don't think it will be any use for scales. Need to see if I can use it for anything else.

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I bet it would burn well...

 

[HillBill]

I bet it would burn well...

It sounds very similar to what i said in post 7, if so, it doesn't

Too dense to burn properly. More of a smolderer. You get flames for a few minutes and then it just glows, but you need either a really good bed of embers or other fuels to keep it glowing.

 

[nodd]

to me it looks like sapele or utile http://www.thewoodexplorer.com/maindata/we470.html a good site for timber id and use