small wood gloat - i think

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hughbie

hughbie

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hey gang....happy holidays, merry christmas, happy kwanza, happy yule.....and anything else anyone might be celebrating this time of year.
i found this wood at work holding a full set of collets. these were actually the sides/feet holding the board with all the holes in it. when i saw this i talked to owner into letting me get him some new 'feet' and taking those. he knows i'm into penturning and the rest is history.
what i want to know.....what kind of wood is this?
the heartwood is a redish color like mahogany, the sapwood is spalted and looks a bit like spalted pecan. the grain is very tight. the heartwood has lighter colored short streaks almost like palm but not as drastic.
what do ya'll think?
 

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Good find. Ya can find the neatest stuff in the strangest places. Just got to keep your eyes open. Be waiting to see some pens from that find.
 
i'm always looking at anything that might resemble wood and checking to see it's grain.
in fact....when i first saw this, i thought that the spalting was actually where someone had drawn on the wood with an ink pen...then i looked closer....ya never know when it will come across...do ya?
 
I found a pic on a website of a piece with a little sapwood.Pretty close.Yours is a little darker but that happens with exposure.Just guessing here..

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spalted freewood.....a very rare find and most likely 'priceless'
now i just have to figure the best way to cut to get the most out of it

thanks mike, hugo, ronald and gary...
 
Great find Hugh, I use to work in a large warehouse and would find lots of good wood like mohagany. What ever wood thats available in the country that ships products. They cut into pallets. I have a piece that I've been holding onto for going on 10 years now that I believe is rosewood.
 
wolftat said:
I was thinking that it looks a bit like Red Oak, if it is, then the spalting is worthy of a nice pen.
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It has the grain pattern of oak on the heartwood side, but I think it is spalted Padauk. Cross cut it and make some pens.
 
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