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Last one.

This timber is native to Australia, it is very, very hard and dense at ~1150kg/m3 (compared to Braz @ 850kg/m3). It only comes in small pieces that are suitable (in size at least) for fretboards and bridges and is not harvested commercially. It is a little darker brown than the picture suggests, more like snakewood in colour than anything else I've seen. I could only afford enough for fretboard and bridge for one guitar when I bought it.

Anyone have any idea what it might be? No prizes, I'm all out of lard - though my wife might argue otherwise.



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Jarrah (sp)?
I've got a boomerang made out of that stuff, I think. Extremly hard and heavy.


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Cookstown Ironwood?
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Gidgee? (Or however that's spelled....)

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Neither lacewood (called silky oak in these parts), nor Jarrah, nor cooktown iron wood (though, I'd like some). It's related to gidgee, even smells like violets the same as gidgee.
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Mulga?

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no, not mulga
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Ok, some kind of acacia. How's that?

Is it named after our founding moderator?

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Ok, Acacia. Looks as close as anyone's going to get.

Acacia pendula or Myall, also known as Boree. This paricular piece of wood is known as ringed myall, "ringed" being a reference to the figure. It's a desert hardwood growing in the arid regions of inland Australia.PaulB38678.748912037
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I was working down the list to that one.

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