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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 01:29:13 am

Title: wood id??
Post by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 01:29:13 am

got some wood off a shipping pallett from India..was holding floor tile...already made a tiller stick from one piece...any ideas what its called?  besides wood of course....lol

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Post by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 01:32:20 am

pic!

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Post by: DavidV on March 08, 2014, 02:04:57 am

Have end grain?

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Post by: bubby on March 08, 2014, 02:37:31 am

All I see is a concrete floor with some cracks in it

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Post by: DarkSoul on March 08, 2014, 07:55:16 am

Is that picture wood? It looks like a floor tile that is stacked on top of it :P

I don't expect a lot of people here know their Indian woods... Pallets are always made from locally available wood species. So it will be very difficult for us to make a guess on the species.

Just do a bend test. Maybe not as sophisticated as Tim Baker prescribes, but any sort of bend test will tell you a lot about the quality of the wood. Much more than some wild guesses here on Prim.Archer.

Title: Re: wood id??
Post by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 08:46:10 am

that is a closeup of the wood itself...will take pic of endgrain..i kinda knew it was a longshot since the wood is from india...but...if ya dont ask ...you dont get.

Title: Re: wood id??
Post by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 09:06:38 am

so after searching for sometime..i believe its  called babool wood. :laugh:...dont know if its a bowwood yet.

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Post by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 10:07:08 am

its one of thousands of acacia...babul...i believe

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Post by: Blaflair2 on March 08, 2014, 10:56:41 am

All I see is cement floor with what looks to be a pile of poo

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Post by: 4dog on March 08, 2014, 12:51:03 pm

dang guys..the poo is a knot...and the cement is the wood!!!  lol
yall is killin me!   if i back off the wood the file is too large ..so its cropped

Title: Re: wood id??
Post by: H Rhodes on March 08, 2014, 01:05:41 pm

Oh!  I thought it was from a microscope...