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Dave Fifield
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OK folks....it's time to get out your "Woods of the World" books and see if you can (shout it with me now) "NAME THAT WOOD!"....

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Dave: Douglas Fir plywood....!!!

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Nope, sorry! Does look a bit like Doug fir though, I'll give you that...

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Doug fir was my first thought. Second was yellow pine.

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We will name him Sparkles.

Goncalo Alves?
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My first guess was yellow pine.

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Not fair!!! How big a section is in the photo?
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It lukes lyke longgleaf yeller piinne to me tooo. T
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Some kind of pine, for sure.

The color could looks like Goncalo alves, but the grain is different.

So I'd say: Purpleheart? Eat Drink

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Trick question. If i squint my eyes i see a sideways picture of some sand dunes.

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My vote is for some species of larch (tamarack, western, European, Japanese, Euro-Jap hybrid). No one has mentioned hemlock?
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Wow! Great guesses....but all wrong, sorry! It does look a bit like slanted sand dunes, doesn't it?! :D

Daniel asked a pertinant question (how big is the sample in the photo?). It's about 2" square.

I can say that one of the guesses was close.....but not which one yet.....I'll keep you guessing until later tonight. If no one gets it by then, I'll reveal the answer.

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OK, I'll tell ya what it is......it's Falsa Wood. I found it at my local hardware store last weekend and couldn't resist putting it up as a "Name That Wood" posting (sorry!):

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"Genuine Fake Wood" laughing6-hehe (well it cracked me up, so pfft )

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Unbelievable !!!

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Dang it, Dave! I was sitting there staring at that trying to think of what kind of tree grew in a place that had quick season changes to get such sharp edges on both sides of the winter growth lines laughing6-hehe
Not to mention trying to imagine the 3-dimensional shape of that weird grain pattern. I should have posted to complain about how it looked so unnatural.

I'm torn between anger for faking us out, and laughing my rear end off laughing6-hehe
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Don't take this personal, but you suck. laughing6-hehe laughing6-hehe laughing6-hehe [:Y:]
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So who will be the first to build with it? ;)
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Not only do you sell false wood in the states your pinching our boomarangs. :lol:
No wonder my boomarang will not comeback/
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