Jmhoff10500
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So here's the story behind my awesome find:
My dad originally found it in a barn he was demolishing 15 years ago. It came from a large crate that we know is an import from another country, but we dont know what country. I found it today among my other old pieces of wood and thought i would cut it up to see what could be done with it. The plank was covered in a very hard paint on every side and it is 8"x7/8"x3 feet and is very heavy. The wood ranges from very very dark blacks to very constant and thin veins of almost purple/brown/red. If it helps in identifying it, i ruined a $40 dollar sanding belt because it clogged it. The picture definitely does not do it justice and i don't know what it is, any ideas?
(we thought of a couple possibilities like Honduras mahogany, some kind of ironwood, or something that the government was experimenting with:biggrin
My dad originally found it in a barn he was demolishing 15 years ago. It came from a large crate that we know is an import from another country, but we dont know what country. I found it today among my other old pieces of wood and thought i would cut it up to see what could be done with it. The plank was covered in a very hard paint on every side and it is 8"x7/8"x3 feet and is very heavy. The wood ranges from very very dark blacks to very constant and thin veins of almost purple/brown/red. If it helps in identifying it, i ruined a $40 dollar sanding belt because it clogged it. The picture definitely does not do it justice and i don't know what it is, any ideas?
(we thought of a couple possibilities like Honduras mahogany, some kind of ironwood, or something that the government was experimenting with:biggrin
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