Wood ID!

[BluegillUK]

Hi all!

Any chance of a quick ID on these wooden window frames from a mate's house? Relatively weighty, worth salvaging?
On my phone so direct link easier thank upload!

https://ibb.co/mWnJOv
https://ibb.co/cuUbAa
https://ibb.co/kBT3qa

Thanks in advance!

Nick

 

[Rob Platt]

meranti
all the best
rob

 

[memzey]

Might it not be Sapelle?

 

[Ttrees]

red meranti.

I have seen stuff called white meranti also.
Sapelle is harder than meranti and looks to have a tighter grain and sometimes ribbon striping from what I've seen...
Most of the meranti I have will jack plane easily in one direction without alternating grain....not needing to plane the other direction.
Tom

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I'd go with sapele.

 

[BluegillUK]

Whether it be Meranti or Sapele, I snagged a load of it and I think I'm going to make a small kid's stool from it.

Thanks for all of your knowledge peeps!

 

[drewdt3]

I was just about to ask a similar question regarding a coffee table top I found in the attic of our house. But having seen the above pictures I think I have my answer. Lovely piece of wood, I've made a couple of floor threshold strips with it.

 

[Ttrees]

That's Iroko
Tom