Help I.D. Wood

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Help I.D. Wood

I need some help identifying some wood. Both of these come from Florida near Tampa. I am not saying they are native to Florida but that is were I collected them. I get a lot of my wood from wood plies from cleared land and such.

#1 to me it first looked like some type of birch the way the bark peeled. Than later on I got another piece and it had some branches on it (seen in 1c) like some type of evergreen.

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#2 I came across this wood in an abandon house that said free fire wood. There was a lot of it and it is BIG. All laid out in rows cut like table tops. Nice flat cuts about maybe 10-12 tall and maybe some up to 30" or more across. These are some small ones. Notice the spines in the bark on the left and of coarse the large pine cones like things. All the pieces have branches going out of them as shown. It looks to me they were cut for wood working than abandon.

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Thank you for your help. I resaw wood into pen blanks.
Bruce
 
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I agree with Dario, Norfolk Island Pine. Look ath the symetrical alignment of the branches, and at the leaves and cones. This is used to make some beautiful vases and bowls. To bad it doesn't have the Pele fire as that would make it awesome. Still a good find, especially if you make bowls and vases.

Rob
 
Originally posted by Dario
<br />NIP - Norfolk Island Pine
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Would that be the first or the second.

They are from completely different areas. I guess it possible there the same but I don't think so the bark & wood are different
 
How good is this wood for pens. I cut some and it has some nice color and chariter.

I don't make bowls just pens. What a shame the place were I found the bottom picture. Has about 20-30 round table size chuncks all with branches in them. It must have come from a very large tree. I will have to go back and get some pictures. if I was to hall it out it would take a dump truck. They are BIG over 30" across. I would hate to cut them up into pen blanks. Maybe the local wood working club would be interested.
 
All of them are NIP...except the big one and background on the top pic.

Very nice for bowls and platter but not sure about pens. I would love to get some (where there were branches) but I am afraid the shipping will be a killer.
 
Hot Dang!!! Stop your bandsaw!!!

NIP ... for certain. NIP is highly valued (make that HIGHLY HIGHLY VALUED) by bowl turners when it has five or six branches that all rest in a circle on the same plane. Take a look at the cover of last year's CSUSA catalog to see what a few NIP bowls can look like. There's a whole process to soaking the bowls, sanding, soaking, sanding, more soaking and more sanding. The bowls are beautiful when turned thin.
Dario and I (among others) are constantly searching for NIP bowl blanks ... especially with the branch knots. Take a look at what they sell for in ebay.

The final word is this .....if you do turn them into pen blanks ... please don't tell Dario or myself. On the other hand, if you happen to be planning a trip to either Texas or Atlanta (Atlanta preferred) ... load up the trunk. We'll be waiting for you. [:D]
 
Well, well,well11 Just as well you have a knowlegable member from the Land of oz on this forum![:I][:I][:I] Topis definitely NIP and the 2nd is just as definitely Aruacaria Bidwillii otherwise known as Bunya Pine ( or sometimes Bunya Bunya) Those Bunya cones Grow to enormous size and could qute easily kill you if one fell on you.
BTW Picked NIP from very first picture.
Glad to be of service.[:D][:D][:D]
 
Bruce,
I'll be visiting family in Tampa over Christmas. I'd be happy to take some of the Norfolk Island Pine off your hands. Especially some of the smaller pieces. I don't think the great big ones would fit on my Jet Mini. [:p]
 
Well, well I figured this was something special when I stumbled on to it. I found it down a old drit hick road. It is along an abandoned trailer. There's a sighn that says free fire wood. I stoped to check it out. I will get a picture up tomorow you wont believe it. I'm not kidding there must be 30 of them all lined up perfectly cut all with about 6 branches in the middle. And BIG about 30" across that one in the picture was a little one I grabed just to find out what it was. I just mite want to rent that truck but my yard is full of wood allready.

What do I do
 
Bruce, I would highly suggest you go back and grab all that you can with the branches. As it was said, very sought after wood for turning. If you can't sell them all here, I am sure they will be cleaned out posted over on Woodnet as those guys turn a lot of bowls. You will kick yourself if you do not!
 
Bruce, Read my original post again and forget what Gary says about the bottom picture they are BUNYA PINE _ Aruacaria Bidwillii native to Australia, a cousin of the Monkey Puzzle Tree of South America, and cousin to another Native Australian Pine tree variously called Hoop Pine, Queensland Pine or Dorrigo Pine.
 
I started a new thread in this forum about the NIP titled Look What I Found. Check out the story and see the picts.

Now I have another wood I am trying to ID. Take a look these are big pieces. I already removed most the bark as it was near 1" thick and a nice deep red color. I have a vision of some nice blanks. But I would really like to find out what type of wood it is. All you have is the split wood so you can see into the wood and some of the bark left.

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Thanks
Bruce
 
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