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Title: Wood Quiz
Post by: Chase on October 26, 2010, 02:26:06 pm

Wood Quiz--Pls check this version out Russ.

This is a quiz for you scrollers.  Click on the pic to enlarge.

Pics 1 & 2 are a slab 2 ?? thick about 27? by 30?.  It?s a clock (no I didn?t make it) that was a gift from our son several years back.  What kind of wood is it?

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If you guessed Buckeye you?re right.  I guess it?s the burl of the tree.

Pics 3 & 4 may be somewhat harder to id.  Study them before looking at the answer.  

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Did anyone guess Rosewood?  This is the bud union of a wild rose I salvaged from a pile of brush in No. Virginia in the early 80s when I was stationed at the ?Puzzle Palace.?  Hung it on a fence post for about a year and then cleaned it up, trimed it, sanded it, and finished it with several coats of varnish.  We keep it on the hearth as a conservation piece.

Pic 5 is the third hardest wood there is (maybe some of you can tell us the first 2).  Comes from the mountains of California and Mexico.  The vase was a gift.  The other piece is natural, I just finished it.  Also on the hearth as a conservation piece  I?m no turner.  Have any of you turners put something like this on a lathe?

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Yes, it?s Manzanita wood.  Really a pretty wood.

Quiz over.  How did you do?

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Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: Dawie on October 26, 2010, 02:50:31 pm

Nice pics there Chase. Got at least one out of three. Got the rosewood although it was a long shot.
David

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: yyyyyguy on October 26, 2010, 02:51:54 pm

Very beautiful pieces but I didn't have a clue :-[

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: Russ C on October 26, 2010, 04:10:04 pm

The first one is kind of erie looking, just in time for halloween.  8)

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: hackergranny on October 26, 2010, 04:41:04 pm

I guessed the Manzanita wood as my Mountain property is full of it.

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: termite on October 26, 2010, 08:12:58 pm

i would say the second one is a petrified heart out of BIGFOOT

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: boxmaker on October 26, 2010, 09:21:39 pm

I got them all wrong, but it was fun looking at them. Thanks Chase

                                                          Mark

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: julief on October 27, 2010, 06:09:39 am

I like termite's answer!

Title: Re: Wood Quiz
Post by: Bill P on October 27, 2010, 09:17:20 pm

Although I liked Termite's answer, I believe that's actually the heart of a Scottish Wood Golem.

Bill - the 51-year-old man who played D&D from 1976 to 1990ish