Wood identification - HELP PLEASE!

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Kenobi

Kenobi

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Hello there!

I need help with identification of the wood that I have made a pen of. For both, I have used wood that I have scawenged from a transport wooden pallet I have found at work. That dark one is some kind of mahogany, much similar to sapeli ( I have made many pens and other things out of sapeli,I have even more on stock for the future) just with dark pores color, but Im more interested in that light color wood. It smelled like lemons when sanding,but I do not think it is a lemon wood.Any tips?

Thanks in advance!

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Kenobi said:
Hello there!

I need help with identification of the wood that I have made a pen of. For both, I have used wood that I have scawenged from a transport wooden pallet I have found at work..... It smelled like lemons when sanding,but I do not think it is a lemon
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Please if you are not aware of dangers using pallet wood do your due diligence. Some are impregnated with insecticides. These are pallets are very dangerous to handle and even more dangerous to cut and sand.
I am not aware of any wood on its own that smells like lemons. It is possible that the pallets were used to ship lemons and picked up some of the aroma.
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Mehtyl Bromide is no good and if you have any pallets designated as such please wear appropriate PPE and dispose of it properly.
Heat Treated and Kiln-Dried are ok to use.
 
Mortalis said:
Please if you are not aware of dangers using pallet wood do your due diligence. Some are impregnated with insecticides. These are pallets are very dangerous to handle and even more dangerous to cut and sand.
I am not aware of any wood on its own that smells like lemons. It is possible that the pallets were used to ship lemons and picked up some of the aroma.
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Mehtyl Bromide is no good and if you have any pallets designated as such please wear appropriate PPE and dispose of it properly.
Heat Treated and Kiln-Dried are ok to use.
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Thank you for the info,I work in logistics for many years so I am aware of that,but others may be not. I would also add that in Europe,many EPALs are food-certified, with the symbol of wheat burned on the same side of pallet as the EP (it is no longer EPAL). But all those are made of spruce or pine,so good for furniture but not tutning.
 
I'm leery of pallets that I don't know the history of because you don't know what was on them. Toxic stuff may have leaked or spilled on a "safe" pallet rendering it questionable to use. The wood in the two pens above could be anything. If you have the right sized pieces wood left you could send them to the Forest Products Lab and see what they say. https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl/identification
 
Many years ago, wife and I bought a small chest freezer from Montgomery Wards (yup, that had to be many years ago!). It was manufactured in Italy, and came on a pallet that I later determined to be some form of European oak. I had a grain pattern similar to the pictures that Dave showed, but the unfinished color was a darker brown. There are a number of species of Oak in Europe that are quite different from those we see in North America.

But the key question is where did the pallet come from? That information might help pinpoint what the timber is. I note that the OP is in the Czech Republic, so that opens the door to a lot of possibilities that those of us in North America might not see.
 
monophoto said:
I note that the OP is in the Czech Republic, so that opens the door to a lot of possibilities that those of us in North America might not see.
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Kenobi I apologize. I didn't realize you weren't American. The Forest Lab info is not useful to you as it is for me. Most of the members being US based can benefit.

For what it is worth I don't believe the lighter colour pen is Oak at all.
 
Thank you all for your responses. Yes,im from CZ, and this is definitely not european Oak. Oak is common wood here,and I have made pens and other things from that wood before - even some of my turning tool's handles:) Both woods,the mahogany and this wood are from the same pallet. Also,the structure of the wood, size and depth of pores,is the same.Its like a white mahogany:)
 
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