What free wood did you find today?

Albert Kiebert said:
Traded a 4 foot section of of a 16 foot Ambrosia Maple log to a friend for some Cocobolo in photos below. I got the Maple for free so I guess this Coco is free also 🤔 Very dry with voids and drying cracks. I did cut 5 1/2” piece to see how bad it might be cracked inside. Should be able to make a few things…..

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That is a cool looking log. Looks like you have some great opportunities to do projects with resin.
 
Got a fair size apple branch. Aim to saw a few flat stock pieces out of this before the bugs get near it. Hope to go harvest the rest of this tree soon. Not much of it is over 12 inch diameter but it had 3 large branches. So I am hoping to get a few crotch feather cuts to play with. Meanwhile, this is starting at me daring me to do something with it.
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Albert Kiebert said:
Traded a 4 foot section of of a 16 foot Ambrosia Maple log to a friend for some Cocobolo in photos below. I got the Maple for free so I guess this Coco is free also 🤔 Very dry with voids and drying cracks. I did cut 5 1/2” piece to see how bad it might be cracked inside. Should be able to make a few things…..

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That would be an awesome blank for an artsy carving, the dust would probably murder though...
 
2feathers Creative Making said:
Got a fair size apple branch. Aim to saw a few flat stock pieces out of this before the bugs get near it. Hope to go harvest the rest of this tree soon. Not much of it is over 12 inch diameter but it had 3 large branches. So I am hoping to get a few crotch feather cuts to play with. Meanwhile, this is starting at me daring me to do something with it.
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Gotta love that blue lighter!!! Chuck
 
Just some pine, but I need it for my garage roof!
The less I have to buy the better.
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I'll rip it down to make 1 x 6's
 
Mentioned to some guys I was making turkey calls. One of them said he had a piece of something, didn't know what other than it was harder than he##!!! So I stopped by his place, picked it up.....a piece about 10"x6". I don't know what it is either. Hard, straight grain, dark color.
He also gave me a 6' piece of sassafras.....smelled great when I cut a piece off!
And.....several 4 footers of what looks to be maple....but not sure.
Sooooo......I got a bunch!!!
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scootac said:
Mentioned to some guys I was making turkey calls. One of them said he had a piece of something, didn't know what other than it was harder than he##!!! So I stopped by his place, picked it up.....a piece about 10"x6". I don't know what it is either. Hard, straight grain, dark color.
He also gave me a 6' piece of sassafras.....smelled great when I cut a piece off!
And.....several 4 footers of what looks to be maple....but not sure.
Sooooo......I got a bunch!!!
:good2:
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We need pictures
 
scootac said:
Mentioned to some guys I was making turkey calls. One of them said he had a piece of something, didn't know what other than it was harder than he##!!! So I stopped by his place, picked it up.....a piece about 10"x6". I don't know what it is either. Hard, straight :rain::rain::wall3:grain, dark color.
He also gave me a 6' piece of sassafras.....smelled great when I cut a piece off!
And.....several 4 footers of what looks to be maple....but not sure.
Sooooo......I got a bunch!!!
:good2:
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I went back through the last few posts and discovered...

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Hmmmm....the second and third picture look totally different to me. But the second pic end grain one looks like Ipe but what do I know 🤣
 
Mr. Peet said:
'Sugar maple' and 'cumaru'. Confidence of 90% on first and 30%...
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agree on the first, would give the second even less likelihood of being cumaru since it has seemingly marginal parenchyma which cumaru does not have. I'm thinking Shorea spp.
 
To my eye it does resemble the stuff I made that cribbage board out of. Wasn't that cumaru? My buddy gave me cutoffs from his new floor. It was really hard, splintered easily until sanded, and smelled bad.
 
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phinds said:
agree on the first, would give the second even less likelihood of being cumaru since it has seemingly marginal parenchyma which cumaru does not have. I'm thinking Shorea spp.
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Thus my 30% confidence....however, the face grain looks really tight, implying, not as grainy as most Shorea, but with 400 or so species, still a good chance.

@scootac

George, that second wood, was / is it greasie to the touch?
 
Mr. Peet said:
... the face grain looks really tight
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One reason I'm doubtful about cumaru is that the face grain is very regular, which I never see in cumaru which seems to always have interlocked grain.
 
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