**ENDED** Pink Ivory

[Sprung]

More than a little bit. No way this is mahogany, as I said in post #6 when Andrew suggested the same thing.

Paul, I had read the entire thread and am aware of your previous suggestion. If you re-read my post, nowhere did I say that it was or could be Cuban Mahogany - just that it reminded me a little of the Cuban Mahogany I've been working with lately, but that the end grain was off.

 

[phinds]

Paul, I had read the entire thread and am aware of your previous suggestion. If you re-read my post, nowhere did I say that it was or could be Cuban Mahogany - just that it reminded me a little of the Cuban Mahogany I've been working with lately, but that the end grain was off.

Right. I got that. I was just supporting your comment that the end grain seemed off.

 

[dvoigt]

I would assume that the weight of the pieces would exclude mahogany. The piece I had were pretty dense and turn a lot more like a rosewood and not at all like a mahogany

 

[gman2431]

I would assume that the weight of the pieces would exclude mahogany. The piece I had were pretty dense and turn a lot more like a rosewood and not at all like a mahogany

Same stuff I have. The name you mentioned also sounds kinda familiar to what he said. Wish I wrote stuff down or something... Lol

 

[phinds]

@GeorgeS check your wood against sissoo rosewood on my site. Your wood seems too grainy for that but not impossible and the end grain also (at least to the extent that I can see it) seems possible. Sissoo grows in florida and is fairly heavy. Hm ... now that I look more closely, I'd say the sapwood of sissoo is a particularly good match (the heartwood not so much). Let us know what you think.

 

[GeorgeS]

@phinds The color is off for sisso on the heart wood. This wood is pretty dense as @dvoigt said.

 

[phinds]

@phinds The color is off for sisso on the heart wood. This wood is pretty dense as @dvoigt said.

OK, I thought the heartwood would be the problem. Thanks for checking that.

That really grainy heartwood face grain looks naggingly familiar but I'm just drawing a blank. Unfortunately, I'm a whole lot better at telling what a wood ISN'T than I am at figuring out what it IS.

 

[Blueglass]

I had looked at the pics and kind of thought Tropical Almond but was so far from being sure I didn't say anything. There are a few possibilities but the end grain kinda throws me.

 

[Blueglass]

Not Tropical Almond it is light, Cuban Mahogany is not light. @phinds do you have any samples of Woman's tongue or Wild Tamarind? I have yet to get these woods . My othe guess would be Willow Bustic and I know Paul cleaned up a sample and pored it here on WB like 2 years ago.

 

[phinds]

Not Tropical Almond it is light, Cuban Mahogany is not light. @phinds do you have any samples of Woman's tongue or Wild Tamarind? I have yet to get these woods . My othe guess would be Willow Bustic and I know Paul cleaned up a sample and pored it here on WB like 2 years ago.

Woman's tongue is on my site as lebbeck. It's pretty similar to monkey pod. I used to have tamarind on the site but took it off some time back.

 

[NYWoodturner]

Looks like silky oak to me. Look at the pics in this thread
http://woodbarter.com/threads/ended-silky-oak-blanks.24672/

 

[phinds]

Looks like silky oak to me. Look at the pics in this thread
http://woodbarter.com/threads/ended-silky-oak-blanks.24672/

No, the end grain says it's not silky oak. Actually, I'm not seeing any similarity in the face grain either, but I'm looking at the pics on my site not the ones in the thread you pointed to so that probably explains that.

 

[Blueglass]

Woman's tongue is on my site as lebbeck. It's pretty similar to monkey pod. I used to have tamarind on the site but took it off some time back.

I'm just trying to think of woods from FL that may be similar. I do mostly think of face grain I must admit.
THanks

 

[phinds]

I'm just trying to think of woods from FL that may be similar. I do mostly think of face grain I must admit.
THanks

I think pretty much everybody thinks of face grain because that's what's obvious and most people aren't used to thinking much about the end grain. I've discovered that the end grain is WAY more useful in most cases.

 

[Bill_LFW]

Maybe pink myrtle?

 

[GeorgeS]

I'm thinking since nobody knows what it is it must be super rare and someone should buy it.

 

[DKMD]

It looks a lot like carob to me, but that's just based on the color and face grain... I don't know what the end grain looks like

 

[Tony]

It looks a lot like carob to me, but that's just based on the color and face grain... I don't know what the end grain looks like

I've got some carob, I can look in a bit. Tony

 

[lonewolf]

I'm thinking since nobody knows what it is it must be super rare and someone should buy it.

Offer it as tiswood

 

[Kevin]

Carob also crossed my mind but I didn't have enough confidence to suggest it because I don't have any with sap so I had nothing to compare that to.