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Acupuri wood - What is it?
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Thanks for your help. Even if it's none of those, I'm always excited to learn about new species.
So I came across this cool site, the ITTO species search that has a TON of exotic woods I've never heard of.
I ordered a board of "Acupuri" and we shall have a looksee once it arrives in a few days, i'll get some close up end grains shots posted.
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Acupuri wood is sitting on my doorstep waiting to be unwrapped and investigated
I was clued into this information just now by a text from my girlfriend:
ROFL
I was clued into this information just now by a text from my girlfriend:
ROFL
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Man you better get her trained fast - if she's already giving you the full name treatment when she's mad what's she gonna do when she has her hooks in you!?
Oh wait that's what you're hoping for.
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Bahahahahaha!
Why do I automatically assume that you already had that image saved on your PC...
Why do I automatically assume that you already had that image saved on your PC...
Must be cold, she has long socks on. I assume they are just getting in from some action on the ski slopes. My daughter does a lot of crochet things, but that is likely too risky for a 4-H project....
I kid you not there's a really funny story behind me finding that picture.
Yo, I havent even got the middle name treatment yet....lol
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Ok so it was 1 week ago, but it FELT like weeks... I'll try to post a pic tonite... I'm excited! African Mystery wood ID time!
Paul,
If you could lift those pictures and forward them to me, I'll send them on to Steph. Dyer, the wood anatomists from South Africa that we have dealt with before. That is if you draw a blank as first and want another opinion on the wood.
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Joseph,
If you have purchased the wood via e-bay, they are legally bound to produce paperwork on the wood as they are directly under UCON & CITES regulations. For instance, if you try selling anything on their site that has 'ivory', it is fine, until you use the word ivory, then they will pull the add immediately until it is further investigated. The term pink ivory has caused plenty of issues too, but most of those have been better handled in the recent years.
@Palaswood
If you could lift those pictures and forward them to me, I'll send them on to Steph. Dyer, the wood anatomists from South Africa that we have dealt with before. That is if you draw a blank as first and want another opinion on the wood.
@phinds
Joseph,
If you have purchased the wood via e-bay, they are legally bound to produce paperwork on the wood as they are directly under UCON & CITES regulations. For instance, if you try selling anything on their site that has 'ivory', it is fine, until you use the word ivory, then they will pull the add immediately until it is further investigated. The term pink ivory has caused plenty of issues too, but most of those have been better handled in the recent years.
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Done
Joseph, those are great pics and a good cleanup job. I'm just up and have some stuff to work on today but I'll see if I can make time soon to pore through my end grain shots for comparison. The combination of sparse pores, clear banded parenchyma and rays amost the same size/distribution as the parenchyma should make it easy to pin down if in fact it's anything I've ever had a sample of.
Paul, thanks for the pictures. After a few viewings, I find it ironic how much it looks like the 'Bongossi', Lophira alata, I just got from John. I wonder if it is in the same genus or even the same species....?
@phinds @Palaswood @pinky
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Yeah, but one problem w/ the ekki (aka bongossi) is that the rays are almost invisible at 10X whereas this mystery wood has sharp clear rays.
OK, here are my notes:
Acupuri --- this is NOT anything I have a sample of. Putting into Inside Wood search engine those characteristics that I can readily identify, I get only 4 hits but I know nothing about any of these woods and have no idea whether or no any of the really fit the bill. Also, small variations in the characteristics entered can make a big difference in the reported results in Inside Wood and I am not expert in using their search engine. I tried looking at the end grain of each of these four on the NCSU LUNA site with the results shown.
Chrysophyllum pruniforme --- boa (ivory coast); NCSU pics show pore multiples that appear longer than what's in your wood but I can't be sure of that because I can't see you pores clearly enough.
Chrysophyllum africanum (syn. Gambeya africana) --- longhi (central africa, congo, liberia); NCSU pics show pore multiples that appear longer than what's in your wood but I can't be sure of that because I can't see you pores clearly enough.
Dialium guianense --- dozens of weird names (Mexico & Brazil); closest match I could find but again, extended pore multiples are a possible problem
Irvingia grandifolia --- lendo (west africa); more/closer-spaced rays
One of my problems is that as good as your end grain cleanup was, it was not good enough to show the individual pores clearly and I am having to interpolate from what I see to the belief (possible wrong) that there are very frequent pore multiples. Can you send me a sample of this to clean up? That actually may not do much good since I KNOW it isn't going to match any of my samples but it's possible that I'll be able to do a better job in finding something on Inside Wood
Acupuri --- this is NOT anything I have a sample of. Putting into Inside Wood search engine those characteristics that I can readily identify, I get only 4 hits but I know nothing about any of these woods and have no idea whether or no any of the really fit the bill. Also, small variations in the characteristics entered can make a big difference in the reported results in Inside Wood and I am not expert in using their search engine. I tried looking at the end grain of each of these four on the NCSU LUNA site with the results shown.
Chrysophyllum pruniforme --- boa (ivory coast); NCSU pics show pore multiples that appear longer than what's in your wood but I can't be sure of that because I can't see you pores clearly enough.
Chrysophyllum africanum (syn. Gambeya africana) --- longhi (central africa, congo, liberia); NCSU pics show pore multiples that appear longer than what's in your wood but I can't be sure of that because I can't see you pores clearly enough.
Dialium guianense --- dozens of weird names (Mexico & Brazil); closest match I could find but again, extended pore multiples are a possible problem
Irvingia grandifolia --- lendo (west africa); more/closer-spaced rays
One of my problems is that as good as your end grain cleanup was, it was not good enough to show the individual pores clearly and I am having to interpolate from what I see to the belief (possible wrong) that there are very frequent pore multiples. Can you send me a sample of this to clean up? That actually may not do much good since I KNOW it isn't going to match any of my samples but it's possible that I'll be able to do a better job in finding something on Inside Wood
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@phinds I will cut up the board this weekend and get that poplar to you as well. I think it may be an allergen since i got some red bumps on my wrist for a little while. i wadhed and scrubbed it and it went away. but be careful. use mask and gloves until we know more
Sounds good. I ALWAYS wear a mask in the garage since I have asthma.
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So I got a sample of Ekki (Azobe, Bongossi) and this "Acupuri' wood is not the same wood.
The mystery remains...
The mystery remains...