What this piece of wood is? I will say that is has some beautiful grain in it. It's just a pity a lot of people dont know how beautiful this wood can be.
Nope. But here is a little hint it also has a very distinctive aroma, sorta sickly sweet:D Oh and it is a wood I have used before:p That should narrow the field down to about 100 woods
Jeff. Ya really gonna kick yaself when the answer comes out:D The 2 lenghts I picked up where almost black with age and being left outside. So a quick thin pass on the band saw reveiled the grain in the above pic. The piece in the pic is the 1/16" slice I took off to reveal the grain. It sure is gonna look a lot better when I do make some lams out of it and pass them through the drum sander.
I know. Ill just give a hint; Some call it Texas Iron wood. I sent Russ a big old hunk of it last year. This is not from the piece I sent, but its the same wood.
I think you seen the answer on the other site:D Yep it is Mesquite it has some loverly orange swirls in it, totally different to what Kent sent me a while back. But rest asured what I have here is not going into the smoker:p
ahh see we dont have that around here! does look quite a bit like walnut. we have american hornbeam, which we call iron wood, or musclewood, and i have heard that stuff makes great bows too!
I would love a big old hunk of hornbeam. It makes a great core wood. I have only used it once on a bamboo backed hornbeam. Man, it was a snappy bow. A man had got the wood for me and asked me to make him a recurve out of it. It was a heck of a recurve. I almost wanted to tell him the bow broke and keep if for myself. Lol. But Id never do that.
