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21st August 2023, 08:24 PM #1
Unknown Timber
I have no idea what timber this is. It was a stump / root ball I found in the garden waste pile - something I was going to burn until I ran it through the bandsaw and saw the potential. The dust is very annoying - it burns if you breathe it and even with a mask on, I get massive sneezing attacks when working with it. But it is definitely starting to show some promise. It took some work to clean it up - the bark was very difficult to remove. Ended up using the Arbortech turbo planer on most of it, and then a dremel on the tight bits. The end grain appears very soft and porous, but it has come up surprisingly well after sanding to 500 grit, and then using Ubeaut "EEE" past and Shellawax Glow on it. Whatever it is - I hope I find some more of it.
Any ideas ??? I'm in Kalgoorlie, but don't know if it's something native to the area or just a mysterious garden shrub.
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21st August 2023, 08:35 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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some sort of root ball
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22nd August 2023, 11:02 PM #3SENIOR MEMBER
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First thing that came to mind was mango
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23rd August 2023, 11:04 AM #4
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23rd August 2023, 09:46 PM #5
It looks like Olive to me
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26th August 2023, 11:23 AM #7
Perhaps African Olive. I have a few chunks that are not dissimilar Olive | The Wood Database (Hardwood)
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27th August 2023, 11:22 AM #8
Thanks for that. I do have some olive wood cut from trees a couple of doors down. This is nothing like the timber I have, but perhaps being a rootball from a different species of olive could explain it.
I'm also wondering if it might have come from a grape vine. We have a few grape vines out in the back yard and some have been pulled out. But the main "trunk" of this piece is thicker than any of the grape vines still in the garden - could have been an older and larger vine ???
I also cut and partially turned a root ball from what the wife tells me was a jacaranda yesterday - it's currently in resin in the pressure pot. Completely different timber again and looks very promising.
Some layers of very "pink" timber in the centre. Second photo (after I had picked off all the bark) almost looks like a chook ready to be roasted in the oven.
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27th August 2023, 08:42 PM #9SENIOR MEMBER
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looks super dry, get that turning!!!!!
i guess your original one could be just about anything in a morphed stage. the beauty of wood
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28th August 2023, 12:48 PM #10
It's sitting out in the shed cast in resin and ready to turn now. But I've been busy building raised vegie garden beds for SWMBO last couple of days - have to keep in the good books or I might get fed some of the unknown variety of mushrooms that are coming up in the lawn at the moment.
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Yes, I think it's mango too. Similar to some (darker) mango I got from my neighbours tree a few years back.
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3rd September 2023, 10:35 AM #12
Finally found out what the "unknown" timber is. Turned out to be a wisteria stump that my wife pulled out a while back. My daughter reminded us of this, and I have since cut a piece off another wisteria vine that is still growing along the back verandah, and it is the same. We used to have another couple of wisteria vines growing along what is now the vegie garden / shadehouse and the wife removed them because the roots were spreading through the beds of the vegie garden. Have now dug up all the beds and built raised "wicking" beds using some old sleepers as support frames with the bottom third of some IBC's as the garden beds. Seems to be working well and the only "pests" in the gardens now are some white moths.
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