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 Post subject: Name this wood!
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:08 pm 
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Hello all...

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

I got it from a luthier's garage who recently passed away.
It is old, and smells like garage :(, so no hints there...

Thanks for your help!
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 Post subject: Re: Name this wood!
PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:10 pm 
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Sorry - not sure if it is obvious or not in the pictures...
it is for sure a softwood....

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does it have an odor?

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does it have an odor?


Bat poop! I was there laughing6-hehe

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Name this wood!

Ok!! "Charlie" laughing6-hehe

Looks like White pine to me also.

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Looks like Fir!

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Marine grade Sitka.

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I do not know what it is:

when sanding it, it smelled like a 2x4, but it also smells like the sitka top I am working with right now...but it does not look like stika..it probably is pine...

it tings like cardboard... :)

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Smells like a 2x4!
That's usually Spruce or Fir!

Hey Don is Marine grade what Marines use for bracing??

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Just in case anyone wants this, 9+ meg Cites tropical wood id guide.

http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/enforce/pdf/Wood/CITES_Wood_Guide.pdf

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Another vote for Fir.

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I can't say for sure just looking at those photos but it could definately be spruce..

The sapwood hasn't been trimmed off, it stained before it was processed/dried and it looks like full of pitch.

I don't know much about fir but if you fall a spruce tree in the spring/early summer thats what happens to it.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:55 pm 
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My guess is Douglas fir.

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looks a lot like sugar pine to me (a type of white pine)

http://www.woodfinder.com/woods/scans/sugar_pine.jpg

I've used it a few times as a trim carpenter, and prefer more solid typical white pine....this stuff tends to route poorly and a climb cut is pretty much required and even that leaves a lot of fur...


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Fire?

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I'm with Hesh and Mike P. Looks like White Pine, and will make a fine top.

For a dulcimer.

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Mike Collins wrote:
Smells like a 2x4!
That's usually Spruce or Fir!

Hey Don is Marine grade what Marines use for bracing??

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 Post subject: Re: Name this wood!
PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:30 pm 
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Mike, nope we use Marine grade balsa wood, it is just stronger and tougher than the other grades or civilian spruce.


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