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| | From: Eric (Original Message) | Sent: 5/4/2005 4:56 AM |
Most of the wood I manage to use is some sort of scrap wood and it is normally oak from a pallet, but every once in awhile I get a piece of wood that I don't know what it is. Can anyone out there help identify this for me? Thanks, Eric |
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| | | From: Eric | Sent: 5/5/2005 2:01 AM |
yes it is a board from a pallet, but thats about the best picture I could get. It had a slight gum smell as I cut it and it reminded me of the smell of chinese elm |
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| | | From: Eric | Sent: 5/5/2005 2:36 AM |
here is a finished project from this same wood finished woth an early american stain |
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We have pallets that are made of oak, looks like oak. |
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Hi Eric, TO me it looks like cherry. How does it cut? i know if you are cutting thicker cherry (1/2-3/4") it will burn very easy if you are not using 2" wide packing tape on top. LEldon PS: Sorry I have not been on here as of late, but we are opening a brand new Carmike 10 theatre. VIP party was tonight, chairity night is tomorrow and grand opening is Friday...FUN FUN FUN |
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My guess would be Ash, Butternut, or Willow. The only real way to ID wood is with a end cut or cross cut. You should be able to see the cell structure with a 10x jewlers loop. The end or cross cut is kind of like the fingerprint of wood.The cut should be clean as possiable so that the cell structure is not damaged. Here is a good link to a publication from the University of Tenn. that shows how to identify wood found in Tenn. but there are trees found all over the US included. I'm sure with some searching you could find just about any wood in the world described as to ID somewhere on the net.
www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/pbfiles/PB1692.pdf
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| | From:  Annja_S | Sent: 5/9/2005 2:34 AM |
Hi Eric! The wood you got there actually is elm! Maybe not chinese, I don't know what that looks like, but I'd say your wood definetly is elm. It is amazing what you can find in pallets sometimes. I have salvaged bunches of cherry (and curly cherry), walnut, mahogany, ash, some exotics I don't know and lots of elm! Some of those pieces are really gorgeous, nice grain, no knots, it's a shame most of it gets burned...  Keep up the good work of turning pallet wood into something beautiful! Annja |
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Where do you get your pallets? Kevin |
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I took a piece of pallet wood to the local Cutting Edge store. The manager told me it was hard to tell. But he said it was for sure Fog wood. (Found on the ground) Ron |
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I guess it would depend on where the pallet originated from, it would usually be made from the cheapest timber available in that area ... which is sometimes seen as a good timber elsewhere.. |
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LOL Ron, I will have to remember that one. Brett |
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Its Elm, Eric, I just got a ton of it in the shed now from a local company that had some stuff shipped to them in pallets and I got about 25 planks gonna use it for some of my Intarsia work.. |
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From looking at your finished project, it almost looks to be Red Elm. |
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| If the black lines in the picture are like lines drawn in the wood it could be cherry, I get a lot of cherry pallets at my job and make xmas ornaments out of them, without holding it in my hands its hard to tell from a picture good luck with the wood! woodman99 |
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