ENDED** March Finds: Quilted Chinaberry, Rosewood, pistache log

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Here are some nice pieces I found looking around this month. First is a piece of quilted Chinaberry. Second a wood going by the name of "Rosewood". Smells nice, nice density, but I can't confirm the species. Checks are marked in chalk. Next, a nice Chinese pistache log. Last, some sort of mystery wood going under the name "coal wood" in Chinese. I thought perhaps it is Acacia, but it isn't quite a dense and the smell is different. Nice grain. The Rose wood and chinaberry are shown with water on them in the first set of pics then dry later. Sizes are in cm.

Chinaberry: 30.8cm x 19 x 2.3 (25$)
Rosewood: 30cm x19 x 2.3 (20$)
Pistache: 23cm x 12 (20$)
"Coal Wood": 5 x 5 x 20 (12$)

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Byron there's a South African wood called coalwood (Lachnostylis hirta). No idea if that's the wood you have since I just found the name in my database (http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/wood_name_database/) but know nothing about the wood.

EDIT: by the way, that's a REALLY extreme color change on the chinaberry from wet to dry. Any idea why?
 
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phinds said:
Byron there's a South African wood called coalwood (Lachnostylis hirta). No idea if that's the wood you have since I just found the name in my database (http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/wood_name_database/) but know nothing about the wood.

EDIT: by the way, that's a REALLY extreme color change on the chinaberry from wet to dry. Any idea why?
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Yeah, I know. These pictures were taken in different locations with different equipment at different times of day. The rosewood too. The color change is very dramatic between wet to dry in the pictures. I think it was the lighting on the wet surface and the difference between my camera and my phone. The coalwood is not Taiwanese, so it could very well be from SA. I didn't ask. They just said it was imported. I bought some big table legs of it and the piece above was left from some cuts, so I decided to polish it up since it looked nice.
 
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phinds said:
Thanks. Which is closer to the real color? I assume the dry one, yes?
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Dry one of course! That's why I showed it. I was like, wow, this camera knows how to make a piece of wood look sexy. Of course the ones on my phone always turn out a bit more dull than real life.
 
Byron,

They are all nice pieces for sure. Barb, I'll hold back words as you... Lucky son's of... nice score.

Byron, the 'Chinaberry' is sweet, but not really "quilted", but rather curly. The species is known for that type of figure in the first few feet of the base log, often like "Angel step" that had escaped the stump and made it into the log. The Pistache has some really interesting growth rings for sure. The 'Coal wood' looked similar to some 'Marri' I have, Corymbia calophylla seen.
 
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