AWGB Woodturning Forum
General Category => Gallery => Topic started by: bodrighywood on September 20, 2012, 08:36:56 PM
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I was given a pile of old table tops and other bits of wood from old furniture all covered in layers of paint, varnish etc. Most is Spanish mahogany but some though it was stained dark brown came out looking like this when turned. My first impression was piranha pine as the graining is pine like and the colouring is like the piranha pine I used to use at school ** years ago. However this is so hard I am forever resharpening the tools and it comes to a shiny finish off the tool. Does anyone here have any idea if it is in fact piranha pine which I remember as being much softer or perhaps something else. The apparent ridges by the way are the grain, not bad tool control LOL. This is approx 6" tall and 5" diameter at the top. As yet unpolished.
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Could you have Pitch pine .. ??? ... it can be very interesting as to what can be in old furniture should you get hold, as you've done of some, I've a sweet little knob on a box which had made which I was told was Teak form a Piano panel, all Igot was the knob .. ;D ..
Very nice piece which you've turned, it may not need a finish, looks fine as it is, well done.
Cheers David
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At first sight I thought it looked like American Cherry but you've worked it and are sure it's a softwood (Pine) so I'll wait out for a final decision.
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Hi Pete,
just going by the colour as it is now and the grain I wonder if it is one of the fruit woods maybe Plum?
Regards
John BHT
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Going by the look of the wood alone it looks very much like red cedar end grain
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(http://)It looks like rather like a piece of timber I was given and then turned that was a piece of Acacia wood