/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.461414]

Can anyone identify what wood this is just by the grain? Found this at work, thinking about using it to make a few knife handles, its about 4ft long.

[Anonymous No.461416]

looks like white pine, or some other type of conifer

[Anonymous No.461421]

>>461416

The grain doesn't look like pine. That said I have only really dealt with white and yellow pine.

[Anonymous No.461432]

>>461414
Cut or drill out a tiny place ans smell it. What does if smell like?

[Anonymous No.461439]

turmite dmgd wood!

[Anonymous No.461447]

looks like oak to me, but you can probably tell if it is by the weight

[Anonymous No.461448]

>>461414
Looks like a random hardwood.

>>461439
That isn't what termite damage looks like. Google it.

[Anonymous No.461452]

>>461414
mahogany has lots of pores. That mahogany?

[Anonymous No.461461]

>>461414
oak

[Anonymous No.461516]

Oak.
Or maybe some gnarly ash...yeah.

Is that the side of the timber OP?

[Anonymous No.461523]

[Anonymous No.461552]

>>461414
I'm pretty sure it's meranti.

[Anonymous No.461553]

>>461552

[Carpenter Bob No.461557]

>>461414

oak, off hand I want to say red oak

[Anonymous No.461566]

>>461557
You're trolling right? It's fucking meranti. Look at the picture. 2/10 if troll.

[Anonymous No.461567]

>>461414
my money's on oak, because its widely used.
and it looks exactly like oak.
is it heavy as fuck op?
its oak.
Oak.
final answer.

[Anonymous No.461568]

>>461414
here's an idea.
OP, why don't you tell us where you're generally located. Within 200 miles. I'm pretty sure it won't be Red Oak if OP is in Malaysia.

[Anonymous No.461569]

>>461566
A. you can't always tell just by looking at a pic the species of wood.
B. if your 100% certain its meranti, then you have no experience with wood, because if you did, you'd know better than to be 100% sure from a dirty picture.
C. I'm not this guy>>461557
D. OAK is MUCH more common than meranti, the odds are its oak.
E. look at oak in>>461567
F. get Fucked, dummy

[Anonymous No.461589]

>>461567
>>461569
Yous are both morons. It looks nothing like oak, and it is definitely meranti, which I use on a daily basis.

[Anonymous No.461592]

>>461414

[Anonymous No.461593]

>>461414
clearly meranti

[Anonymous No.461599]

>>461593
/diy/ will unify in laughing and mocking you if it's not your faggy Meranti. Now, kindly shut your fucking mouth, Sperg.

[Anonymous No.461602]

>>461599
Are you aware of quite how pants-on-head retarded you sound? What are you, fucking eight?

[Anonymous No.461620]

>>461589
>looks nothing like oak
see>>461567

do..do you need glasses?

[Anonymous No.461622]

>>461602
I think he sounds just about right...

[Anonymous No.461624]

>>461602
you adopted pants-on-head retarded, huh? Good for you. Gives us a good idea on your age and starter board. Wear it with pride and keep fighting all of those hundreds upon thousands of battles.

Gotta love the hide thread function.

[Anonymous No.461625]

OP Here, sorry for not replying like a douche, posted the picture after work then went home and fell asleep.

Wood is pretty heavy, solid as hell, thinking about cuting it into shingles for knife handles.

Location is Kansas, leaning towards oak, thanks guys.

[Anonymous No.461630]

Balsa?

Rotten birch?

[Anonymous No.461632]

>>461630
nevermind,

didnt read >>461625


also, no idea what kind of wood is available in the states.

[Anonymous No.461647]

bumping for lolz

[Anonymous No.461649]

>>461566
Yeah, because this White Oak doesnt look like it could be it as well, does it?

Stop being a jackass.

[Anonymous No.461687]

>>461589
>it is definitely meranti, which I use on a daily basis.
>which I use on a daily basis.
>daily basis.
>daily.

shit anon, i noticed you went real quiet when you found out it was oak..
What exactly do you do with meranti on a daily basis without actually looking at it?

[Anonymous No.461691]

>>461687

probably a plywood veneer knife

[Anonymous No.461710]

>>461552
>>461566
How fucking stupid are you?

What sense does it make that someone would find a piece of wood in the trash in the US that came from a tree that doesn't grow here when it looks pretty close to the wood from a tree that grows all over the damn place here.

[Anonymous No.462084]

This thread is hilarious. Do any of you guys actually work with wood? I'm a builder/carpenter. I'd say that OP's sample is almost certainly meranti or sapele. It's definitely not oak. Tropical hardwoods such as meranti are imported in vast quantities for use in construction as mahogany look-alikes. They're cheaper than oak and easier to work.

>>461647
Shit dude, if you think those look the same you should get somebody else to buy your timber for you.

[Anonymous No.462357]

>>462084
Clearly you dont really work with wood either. A. sapele looks NOTHING like that, and B. you wouldnt say "definitely not oak" when it most certainly looks like it could be white oak. It also looks like it could be meranti. but to say for certain based on one pic makes you look like an idiot

White Oak, BTW...honestly tell me it is not possible that is the same wood as OP.

[GreenGC No.462529]

My guess based on experience...oak.

[Anonymous No.462534]

I'm an archaeologist and what you hold in your hand is not wood at all, but genuine petrified tyrannosaurus rex shit.

[Anonymous No.462535]

>>462084
>upset samefag detected

[Anonymous No.462549]

>>462084
>looks nothing like oak
>meranti (tropical species) more common than oak (indigenous)

so how long has little boy been laboring at the flooring warehouse? a week?

stop pretending to be a builder, real builders can smell your shit a mile away

another vote for oak

[Anonymous No.462592]

>>462084
>certainly meranti
>pretty heavy, solid as hell
just suck my dick already

[Anonymous No.463364]

why do people keep saying this is oak? it's obviously not.

[Anonymous No.463368]

Quercus alba

[Anonymous No.463372]

>>461625
I'm not going to get into the oak/meranti debate, since this does look a bit like some oak I've seen but very unlike some oak boards I've seen. And I've never seen meranti in the flesh.

On to what you want to use it for, if it's reasonably hard it'll work fine for handle scales so the speces is sorta irrelevant. That obvious pore pattern in the wood could be an attractive feature in the finished handle, either left as-is or filled in various ways if you want it totally smooth.

Would like to see what you do with it so please post back once you have the first handle done.

[Anonymous No.463394]

>>462549
Actually dipshit I'm a cabinet maker, and it doesn't matter how many times you vote for oak it'll never be true.

[Anonymous No.463415]

Anybody voting for anything other than a mahogany or a mahogany lookalike is an absolute pleb.

>works at a lumber store

If you can get me an endgrain picture, I'll tell you exactly what it is. Probably meranti, though.

[Anonymous No.463449]

>>463415
>>463394
OP said it was heavy, meranti is not heavy. Christ, nobody even uses that for anything except shitty plywood.
Are you the same person shitposting in like 10 threads pretending to be someone in a relevant field when really you're just pulling shit out your ass?

[Anonymous No.463496]

>>463394
>dipshit
>cabinet maker who doesn't recognize oak

Your boss called.
He said you're fired.

[Anonymous No.463520]

Oak OP.

[Anonymous No.463523]

The amount of mad in this thread is fucking amazing. Calm down, you sperglords.

[Anonymous No.463527]

You guys calling 'oak' and 'ash'? Yeah, you guys are really wrong. It looks like a tropical to me.

[Anonymous No.463801]

>>463449
Its definitely a mahogany lookalike. Even if it isn't meranti.
It could be a dense peice of african mahogany (khaya), but usually the denser peices are darker in color.
If it truly is heavy, maybe a really light colored peice of jatoba? I've seen some that aren't too much darker than OP's pic.

And no, I'm not shitposting anywhere. This is the only thread I've posted in in like a week. I work at World of Hardwoods. I CBA to prove it.

[Anonymous No.465652]

looks like mahogany op

[Anonymous No.465663]

>>461523
Fixed it.