Yet another wood ID

[Paul Hannaby]

Here's some nicely finished wood with no saw marks

Very light and red coloured. Could it be redwood lace burr?

[seventhdevil]

agreed, redwood burr.

[willstewart]

Possibly - and 'redwood' as with many timber terms is pretty vague.  But I note that:-

1 - redwood from a redwood tree (as per USA giant trees) is a softwood - and really is quite soft and dusty.  It is also more pinkish than red (see attached pic of a sawn sample I have). Do softwoods have burr?

2 - your pic looks a bit like timber plausibly sold to me as 'red mallee' which is burr from an Australian eucalyptus small tree/bush. See pic. But many other burr timbers might look similar (indeed I think 'mallee' can be a number of species).

[seventhdevil]

mallee, coolibah and a few other species burrs can look quite like the wood in pauls pictures but are very dense timbers and paul points out that the wood is quite light which points toward the softwood species.

redwood but can come from a few different species which are the coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) and the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) but most frequently is the coastal redwood species with the burr frequently being referred to as vavona.

there are lots of images of the species here.
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/redwood.htm

[willstewart]

Thanks seventhdevil - looks likely to be vavona indeed.  Good to learn!  The dawn redwood is hopefully very rare!

[John Plater]

Possibly - and 'redwood' as with many timber terms is pretty vague.  But I note that:-

1 - redwood from a redwood tree (as per USA giant trees) is a softwood - and really is quite soft and dusty.  It is also more pinkish than red (see attached pic of a sawn sample I have). Do softwoods have burr?

I seem to remember reading a story about less scrupulous types cutting the burrs from standing redwood trees and killing the trees. It became an issue with the authorities and they had to start placing guards and patrolling the forests.
ATB John

[TWiG]

Here's some nicely finished wood with no saw marks

Very light and red coloured. Could it be redwood lace burr?

Almost certain this is Thuja burr  ...North Africa  ( not western red cedar )

[Paul Hannaby]

No, definitely not Thuya burr. This is much lighter

[hughie]

Could easily be Mallee of the brown variety, it often has this pattern to the grain.

[Paul Hannaby]

Not mallee, it's much too light. I think redwood burr is what it is.