Trip to the lumberyard

[shaneymack]

Thanks phinds. Any guess as to what it actually is?

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To me it looks like morado (aka Bolivian rosewood) and "jacaranda" is one of the alternate common names for that wood. Check out the pics on my site and see what you think.

 

Ok thanks. What is your site?

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[Tpt life]

10 minutes ago, shaneymack said:

Ok thanks. What is your site?

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Google hobbit house wood id. It's in his signature if you check with a big screen. Signatures don't show on small screens. 

[shaneymack]

Ok thanks. What is your site?

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Google hobbit house wood id. It's in his signature if you check with a big screen. Signatures don't show on small screens. 

Ok cool. Thanks Carus!

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[Guest]

@phinds, I love your site but two things have always baffled me:

1) What does "huge enlargements are present" mean?

2) Is there a search box or can I only find a species by scrolling through the list?  It seems that some of your pages have a search box and others don't?  Currently I can't find it.

 

 

[Tpt life]

5 minutes ago, Mike. said:

@phinds, I love your site but two things have always baffled me:

1) What does "huge enlargements are present" mean?

2) Is their a search box or can I only find a species by scrolling through the list?  It seems that some of your pages have a search box and others don't?  Currently I can't find it.

 

 

2) It hot links to "Rosewood Bolivian."

http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/rosewood,%20bolivian.htm

[Guest]

1 minute ago, C Shaffer said:

2) It hot links to "Rosewood Bolivian."

http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/rosewood,%20bolivian.htm

My question was more about searching, not linking to a specific species.  For example, can I search for "ash" and get links to all pages for species commonly called ash.   It seems that at one time he had a search functionality but I don't see it any more (but maybe my memory is incorrect).  

 

[phinds]

24 minutes ago, shaneymack said:

Ok thanks. What is your site?

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My apologies. I keep forgetting that this is one of those obnoxious sites where you are not allowed to put your site link in your signature the way you are on most sites.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/

 

 

[Eric.]

35 minutes ago, phinds said:

Although it's true that "jacaranda" is one of the common names used (very rarely) for Dalbergia nigra, I'm a bit surprised that Eric even mentioned that since "jacaranda" is about 99.99% more likely to refer to various other woods. I can provide a list of 50 species that use the name jacaranda. I can assure you that the wood shown in this thread is 100% definitely not Brazilian rosewood.

Thanks for clarifying...

I always forget that Wood Database is not your site and Hobbit House is...so apologies for dragging you into this.

I'd never heard of jacaranda.  The Wood Database should clarify when common names are used for multiple species to alleviate this kind of confusion.  It could (and would) help people at the lumber yards.  This is a perfect example...Shane may not have bought that piece of lumber had he known it wasn't really Brazilian rosewood.  Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't, but at least he would have gone into the transaction knowing exactly what he was getting.

[shaneymack]

Ok thanks. What is your site?

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My apologies. I keep forgetting that this is one of those obnoxious sites where you are not allowed to put your site link in your signature the way you are on most sites.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/

 

 

Your site link is there. Its just that I was using tapatalk and it doesnt show up on there. I went on the wto site on the pc and the link is there. Thanks !

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[Eric.]

1 minute ago, phinds said:

My apologies. I keep forgetting that this is one of those obnoxious sites where you are not allowed to put your site link in your signature the way you are on most sites.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/

 

 

Your link IS in your signature.  There's no rule against that here, as long as it's wood-related...

[phinds]

4 minutes ago, Eric. said:

Your link IS in your signature.  There's no rule against that here, as long as it's wood-related...

Sorry, guess I was thinking of one of the other wood forums. There is one that doesn't allow signatures. I don't get here very often so got them confused and didn't bother to even look at one of my posts to check. Thanks.

17 minutes ago, Mike. said:

@phinds, I love your site but two things have always baffled me:

1) What does "huge enlargements are present" mean?

2) Is their a search box or can I only find a species by scrolling through the list?  It seems that some of your pages have a search box and others don't?  Currently I can't find it.

 

 

click on pic for enlargement. Click on that for 2nd enlargement

use browser search function

 

 

[Guest]

22 minutes ago, Eric. said:

Thanks for clarifying...

I always forget that Wood Database is not your site and Hobbit House is...so apologies for dragging you into this.

I'd never heard of jacaranda.  The Wood Database should clarify when common names are used for multiple species to alleviate this kind of confusion.  It could (and would) help people at the lumber yards.  This is a perfect example...Shane may not have bought that piece of lumber had he known it wasn't really Brazilian rosewood.  Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't, but at least he would have gone into the transaction knowing exactly what he was getting.

Yeah but nobody would buy Khaya if it sold under its local name of "West African Poopwood"

[Eric.]

Yeah, well, as far as I'm concerned nobody SHOULD be buying West African Poopwood.  So we could just call it a Public Service Announcement.

People truly just lack taste I guess.  There was a time when we had African Mahogany and Honduran Mahogany in stock at exactly the same price per bf...the only difference being the Honduran was rough and the African was S2S 15/16.  The African outsold the Honduran at least 3:1...which was fine with me because it gave me more time to stockpile as much of the good stuff as possible.    I never argued, I just smiled and wrote up a ticket.

[phinds]

55 minutes ago, Mike. said:

My question was more about searching, not linking to a specific species.  For example, can I search for "ash" and get links to all pages for species commonly called ash.   It seems that at one time he had a search functionality but I don't see it any more (but maybe my memory is incorrect).  

 

No, I've never had a search feature. One point of confusion is that if you are looking for "red oak" for example, you have to search for "oak, red"

40 minutes ago, Mike. said:

Yeah but nobody would buy Khaya if it sold under its local name of "West African Poopwood"

I completely disagree w/ that. Check out the dulcimer case at the bottom of my "mahogany, african" page.

 

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8 minutes ago, phinds said:

No, I've never had a search feature. One point of confusion is that if you are looking for "red oak" for example, you have to search for "oak, red"

I completely disagree w/ that. Check out the dulcimer case at the bottom of my "mahogany, african" page.

 

I know, it can look nice.  Darrell Peart does some nice stuff with it too (I think he mostly uses Khaya).  My issues are more with the workability.  It starts to tear out the minute you turn a machine on :).  Sapele and Utile (if you can find it) tend to be priced just a bit higher and work a lot better.

 

[phinds]

26 minutes ago, Mike. said:

 It starts to tear out the minute you turn a machine on :).  Sapele and Utile (if you can find it) tend to be priced just a bit higher and work a lot better.

 

No argument there.

[Eric.]

It's certainly superior to red oak, so there's that.

I bet I wouldn't have an issue with it if it wasn't passed off as "mahogany."  I end up comparing it to true mahogany and very few woods can win that battle.

I worked with West African Poopwood on a project for about six months up until recently.  I didn't find it too terribly difficult to work as long as I kept my tools sharp and I paid attention to grain, which I always try to do anyway.  But ultimately, I have to put it solidly in the "meh" category.  Not terrible, certainly not great.  Just kind of dull and boring.  Meh.