I'm getting ready to build myself a little box to hold the Japanese
chisels SWMBO gave me for Xmas (I transport them back and forth to the
community college for my WW class). I decided to make it out of some
walnut left over from last semester but with an interesting top of
some sort.
At the local Rockler store today I was sorting through their selection
of "box top" material (swear to God it was labeled that way). Mostly
burl slices and spalted this and thats. I found one I really like and
brought it home, but I'm not sure what it is and the guy behind the
counter couldn't help me. I'll try to describe it as best I can; if
anybody has a good guess, I'd be interested.
The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
send a picture.
TIA,
Ian
Sounds like aged birdseye maple. The transition zone from sap to heartwood
isn't always cinnamon colored, but can have mineral staining - green to
black - in it as well. If you get wood from the vicinity of an injury site,
it can really show a lot of variation.
"Ian Dodd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
> figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
> darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
> orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
> spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
> appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
> would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
> send a picture.
>
> TIA,
> Ian
How about uploading the picture to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking?
So we can all look at it. That's what most folks on here do.
Good luck.
Joe
"Ian Dodd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm getting ready to build myself a little box to hold the Japanese
> chisels SWMBO gave me for Xmas (I transport them back and forth to the
> community college for my WW class). I decided to make it out of some
> walnut left over from last semester but with an interesting top of
> some sort.
>
> At the local Rockler store today I was sorting through their selection
> of "box top" material (swear to God it was labeled that way). Mostly
> burl slices and spalted this and thats. I found one I really like and
> brought it home, but I'm not sure what it is and the guy behind the
> counter couldn't help me. I'll try to describe it as best I can; if
> anybody has a good guess, I'd be interested.
>
> The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
> figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
> darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
> orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
> spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
> appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
> would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
> send a picture.
>
> TIA,
> Ian
as wood usually photographs CRAP maybe you could scan it and then post it to
the binaries group suggested.
Steve
"Ian Dodd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm getting ready to build myself a little box to hold the Japanese
> chisels SWMBO gave me for Xmas (I transport them back and forth to the
> community college for my WW class). I decided to make it out of some
> walnut left over from last semester but with an interesting top of
> some sort.
>
> At the local Rockler store today I was sorting through their selection
> of "box top" material (swear to God it was labeled that way). Mostly
> burl slices and spalted this and thats. I found one I really like and
> brought it home, but I'm not sure what it is and the guy behind the
> counter couldn't help me. I'll try to describe it as best I can; if
> anybody has a good guess, I'd be interested.
>
> The piece has three main colors. The lightest looks something like a
> figured maple. The darkest is about the shade of ground cinammon with
> darker, circular "leopard spots". In between is a sort of
> orangey-rosy color, again with somewhat darker leopard spots. The
> spots and the swirls give the surface of a sort of boiling oil kind of
> appearance. Sorry for all the inexact descriptors, but if anybody
> would like to get a look at it, drop me a private e-mail and I can
> send a picture.
>
> TIA,
> Ian