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| Author: | BruceH [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:38 pm ] |
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Before I ask if anyone has built with this wood, lets see if anybody can identify it. Sorry, you won't win any of that Kinnaird Lard. You'll have to be satisified with an 'atta boy. 
I've got about a 24" dia log available. This pic is of a 6" limb. The left half has been wiped with shellac. 
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| Author: | Tim McKnight [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:44 pm ] |
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Chestnut or Butternut? |
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| Author: | Don A [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:07 pm ] |
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I'd go with Tim on butternut. |
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| Author: | old man [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:20 pm ] |
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Red oak? Ron |
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| Author: | BruceH [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:28 pm ] |
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Nope. Nope. Nope, but the color is similiar to red oak. |
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| Author: | Dennis Leahy [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:41 pm ] |
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Black Locust? -Dennis |
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| Author: | Shawn [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:42 pm ] |
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Is it light weight?...It looks like Mulberry to me. It looks a little too ring porous for Butternut. I dont think it is Chestnut. |
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| Author: | Addam Stark [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:49 pm ] |
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Ash? |
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| Author: | John How [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:55 pm ] |
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I agree with addam it looks like ash to me |
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:56 pm ] |
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Paulonia? |
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| Author: | BruceH [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:31 pm ] |
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Yea, it looks like ash, but it's not. It's about as hard as cherry - maybe a little harder and a little heavier. Nobody has it yet. |
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| Author: | PaulB [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:57 pm ] |
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Sassafras albidum? |
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| Author: | Bobc [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:37 pm ] |
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Pecan? |
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| Author: | guitarjtb [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:23 pm ] |
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It has to be Asian Pomegranate (Punica Granatum). I just can't imagine a Pomegranate bush producing a 24" log. 
Ash or red oak would have been my serious guess, but those have already been used. |
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| Author: | Dave Rector [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:34 pm ] |
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Looks a lot like Catalpa to me. I built a dred out of it a while back. Wasn't as hard as cherry though. |
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| Author: | John Kinnaird [ Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:19 pm ] |
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I cut down a big poison Ivy vine near my house that looked a lot like that. I though I might cut it into binding. |
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| Author: | BruceH [ Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:22 am ] |
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It's Red Elm. Anyone ever use it? I'm wondering if it would be worth it to have it cut for b/s sets, or if I should just make firewood out of it? |
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| Author: | John Kinnaird [ Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:33 am ] |
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If you use it for firewood, don't plan on splitting it. |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:10 am ] |
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Elm is a beutiful wood under finish, with an almost irridescant quality. Makes for nice furniture. Don't burn it! Use it for something. It's getting harder and harder to get since the Dutch Elm disease started killing off most of the elm trees in this country. |
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| Author: | Mattia Valente [ Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:36 am ] |
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Burn the limbs (reaction wood anyway), saw up the trunk. |
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| Author: | BruceH [ Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:51 am ] |
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John- I split this piece and it wasn't as bad as Hickory. It doesn't really concern me, however, because splitting wood is my wife's job. Don - So, what do you think about using it for guitars? |
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