Wood ID Please...

[NazNomad]

Just cutting some bowl blanks and this popped out....

Could it be Padauk?

 

[custard]

Could be, impossible to be precise but that certainly looks like freshly sawn Padauk colour and the unmachined surfaces also look like Padauk that's had a few years to age. Padauk often smells very slightly warm and spicy, a bit like cinnamon.

 

[thetyreman]

yes looks like padauk, hopefully you won't have a reaction like I did, I can't go anywhere near the stuff.

 

[NazNomad]

I was very 'spicy' smelling.

I wondered if it was an irritant, it certainly looked like it made horrible dust.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

^^^ as Custard - it has quite a noticeable smell. I've not found it irritant, though.

 

[Beau]

Yes another for Padauk.

 

[Racers]

+1 for Padauk.

Pete

 

[NazNomad]

Thanks peeps.... Another dumb question, any idea what it turns like?

 

[Bm101]

"Common Uses: Veneer, flooring, turned objects, musical instruments, furniture, tool handles, and other small specialty wood objects."

http://www.wood-database.com/african-padauk/

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterocarpus_dalbergioides - not that there's much info there.
http://www.wood-database.com/andaman-padauk/

 

[nev]

Thanks peeps.... Another dumb question, any idea what it turns like?

Cindy Drozda used some in the construction of her 'fabulous finial box' if I remember correctly (cos she pronounced it oddly and it stuck in my mind), so its probably a good 'turner'.

 

[CHJ]

Turned quite a bit of it some 11 years ago.

300mm dia.

305mm dia.

295mm dia.

Don't keep it in harsh sunlight conditions, I've recently seen some little posts that I made lids for with off-cuts and they look More Brown than red now, been standing on a window sill.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The stuff I've turned is not African - it was from furniture imported from Hong Kong in the '90s - and turns very nicely.

 

[custard]

Cindy Drozda used some in the construction of her 'fabulous finial box' if I remember correctly (cos she pronounced it oddly and it stuck in my mind).

It's pronounced "padook". Another timber that often causes problems in Wenge, which is pronounced wen-ghee or wen-gay with a hard "g", not wenje or wen-jee with a soft "g".

On the subject of pronunciation, in the North (where I first learnt cabinet making) cornice is generally cor-niss, but in the South it's often cor-niece which to my ear always sounds a bit affected.

 

[NazNomad]

Blimey Chas, set the bar a bit higher for me whydontchya. :-D

 

[NazNomad]

On the subject of pronunciation, in the North (where I first learnt cabinet making) cornice is generally cor-niss, but in the South it's often cor-niece which to my ear always sounds a bit affected.

As an Essex boy, I've only ever pronounced, and heard it pronounced 'cor-niss'.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Corniss this far south.