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Before I ask if anyone has built with this wood, lets see if anybody can identify it. Sorry, you won't win any of that Kinnaird Lard. You'll have to be satisified with an 'atta boy.

I've got about a 24" dia log available. This pic is of a 6" limb. The left half has been wiped with shellac.



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Chestnut or Butternut?

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I'd go with Tim on butternut.

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Red oak?

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Nope.
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Nope, but the color is similiar to red oak.
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Is it light weight?...It looks like Mulberry to me. It looks a little too ring porous for Butternut. I dont think it is Chestnut.
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I agree with addam it looks like ash to me

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Paulonia?

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Yea, it looks like ash, but it's not. It's about as hard as cherry - maybe a little harder and a little heavier.

Nobody has it yet.
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It has to be Asian Pomegranate (Punica Granatum). I just can't imagine a Pomegranate bush producing a 24" log.

Ash or red oak would have been my serious guess, but those have already been used.
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Looks a lot like Catalpa to me. I built a dred out of it a while back. Wasn't as hard as cherry though.

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I cut down a big poison Ivy vine near my house that looked a lot like that. I though I might cut it into binding.


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It's Red Elm. Anyone ever use it? I'm wondering if it would be worth it to have it cut for b/s sets, or if I should just make firewood out of it?
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If you use it for firewood, don't plan on splitting it.
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Elm is a beutiful wood under finish, with an almost irridescant quality. Makes for nice furniture. Don't burn it! Use it for something. It's getting harder and harder to get since the Dutch Elm disease started killing off most of the elm trees in this country.

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Burn the limbs (reaction wood anyway), saw up the trunk.
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John- I split this piece and it wasn't as bad as Hickory. It doesn't really concern me, however, because splitting wood is my wife's job.

Don - So, what do you think about using it for guitars?



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