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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2015, 07:57:00 PM »
A friend that came by also guessed ironwood, if I thought it would look anything like that knife handle I would sure use it in my next bow build for the riser.
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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2015, 08:00:00 PM »
A friend that came by also guessed ironwood, if I thought it would look anything like that knife handle I would sure use it in my next bow build for the riser.
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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2015, 08:13:00 PM »
Man ... I say you need to calculate the density, try some UV light, you could also do an extractive UV test to rule out the rosewoods. Also maybe take a good picture of well sanded end grain, that might help.
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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2015, 08:50:00 PM »
End before sanding off wax...
 
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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2015, 08:53:00 PM »
After sanding some. Stops up sandpaper fast, it's like it is impregnated with wax.
 
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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2015, 08:54:00 PM »
Sanding disk clogged..
 
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Re: Bought a block of strange wood
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2015, 02:47:00 AM »
As Littleben says a density test would really help as well.
It looks like it could be Desert Ironwood to me as well.
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