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Offline firedup

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some mystery wood?
« on: June 27, 2010, 09:21:06 PM »
Got this chunk for a Tenn fellow.  Supposed to have been salvage from a sunken river log. Mighty Mississippi maybe? The grain looks like 1/4 sawn sycamore in place but the pattern on the uncut surfaces is throwing me.  Mite make an interesting project.  Anyone got any ideas or seen this stuff before??





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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2010, 09:38:44 PM »
Hard to tell but should make a nice looking call. 

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2010, 10:02:39 PM »
I would give odds that it is sycamore.

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2010, 10:04:15 PM »
Sure looks like sycamore to me.
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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 06:37:05 AM »

... well, I don't know nothin' about what kind of wood it is LT - but I; for one; can't wait to see what you turn it in to ... 8) 8) 8)

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2010, 06:45:23 AM »
 The bark don't look like sycamore, at least the sycamore we have here. Ours has white blotches and real smooth bark. Wood looks like it though.. I'm with Jim, look forward to seeing what comes out of it!  *up*

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2010, 07:29:57 AM »
Lt, Hackberry looks like that quartersawn...but the bark doesn't match...just call it the "Mystery Call"...might call up something prehistoric.. *cheers*........Charlie
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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2010, 07:44:15 AM »
 My first guess would be sycamore my second would be Beech.

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2010, 08:00:39 AM »
LT,

You need to ask our resident expert. He knows EVERYTHING!!

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2010, 08:20:29 AM »
LT,

You need to ask our resident expert. He knows EVERYTHING!!

Who might you be referring to Rickey?????  

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2010, 09:49:17 AM »
Looks like sycamore grain, but that bark doesn't look like any sycamore around here. 

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2010, 10:01:54 AM »
I'm thinking beech, but what do I know.....bark is throwing me a curve....

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2010, 09:16:21 PM »
Sycamore maybe....but I tend to think it might be a cherry species....from the bark.

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Re: some mystery wood?
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2010, 08:02:02 AM »
Sycamore maybe....but I tend to think it might be a cherry species....from the bark.

Bill

I agree Bill.....An ornamental type cherry.......those kind that bloom out real pretty in the spring.
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