Wood Quiz

[Chase]

Wood Quiz

This is a quiz for you scrollers and wood identifiers.

Pics 1 & 2 are a slab 2 ½” thick about 27” by 30”. It’s a clock (no I didn’t make it) that was a gift from our son several years back. What kind of wood is it?

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If you guessed Buckeye you’re right. I guess it’s the burl of the tree.

Pics 3 & 4 may be somewhat harder to id. Study them before looking at the answer.

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Did anyone guess Rosewood? This is the bud union of a wild rose I salvaged from a pile of brush in No. Virginia in the early 80s. Hung it on a fence post for about a year and then cleaned it up, trimed it, sanded it, and finished it with several coats of varnish. We keep it on the hearth as a conservation piece.

Pic 5 is the third hardest wood there is (maybe some of you can tell us the first 2). Comes from the mountains of California. The vase was a gift. The other piece is natural, I just finished it. Also on the hearth as a conservation piece. I’m no turner. Have any of you turners put something like this on a lathe?

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Yes, it’s Manzanita wood. Really a pretty wood.

Quiz over. How did you do?

Submitted by Chase

[Barefoot1]

I got Manzanita - but than I whacked enough of that stuff while working for CDF to last me a life time, that is some hard wood!

[minowevie]

yes I guessed Manzanita as well. and being from Calif. you could get in big troubale cutting even the dead wood. I love this stuff. the pieces you show are awsom. but I normaly cure it for 2 years. very pretty projects. loverly for sure. your friend Evie

[Wood Dog]

I didn't do well at all......kept thinking that if William Young ever got his hands on those he would mount it on his lathe in a jiffy and make something out of it.

[Jim McDonald]

I would venture a guess that zebrawood ranks pretty high on the hardness scale. I've never cut it, but a friend of mine had a ceramic house number plaque with a zebrawood frame and I thought we were going to have to resort to titanium bits to hang the dang thing.