Orange agate?

wskossack asks:

>I picked up a chunk of wood at the Denver Woodworking show that the
>seller was calling Orange Agate?
>
>Anyone have any idea what this wood is? I can't find any reference on
>it.

Osage orange? What does it look like?

Charlie Self
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing."
Redd Foxx

william kossack wrote:
> I picked up a chunk of wood at the Denver Woodworking show that the
> seller was calling Orange Agate?
>
> Anyone have any idea what this wood is? I can't find any reference on
> it.
Was this wood petrified?

Could you mean Orange Osage?
max

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:15:14 GMT, "George E. Cawthon"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> william kossack wrote:
>>> I picked up a chunk of wood at the Denver Woodworking show that the
>>> seller was calling Orange Agate?
>>>
>>> Anyone have any idea what this wood is? I can't find any reference on
>>> it.
>> Was this wood petrified?
>
> Say what you will about petrified wood, it is damn sure dimensionally
> stable.
>
> --RC (who works it all the time)
>
> Sleep? Isn't that a totally inadequate substitute for caffine?
>

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:15:14 GMT, "George E. Cawthon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>william kossack wrote:
>> I picked up a chunk of wood at the Denver Woodworking show that the
>> seller was calling Orange Agate?
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what this wood is? I can't find any reference on
>> it.
>Was this wood petrified?

Say what you will about petrified wood, it is damn sure dimensionally
stable.

--RC (who works it all the time)

Sleep? Isn't that a totally inadequate substitute for caffine?

It is not osage. I also queried in the turners newsgroup.
The best response I got from one wood turner is that it
is a new wood out of peru.

It is orange with nice grain patterns. They had a couple small
turned items out of it that seemed to have kept its color sofar
but only time will tell.

Much of their stock was cracking. One large
plank still had the pith in it and it looked nice until I turned
it over and saw some large checks running the length of the board.

Charlie Self wrote:
> wskossack asks:
>
>
>>I picked up a chunk of wood at the Denver Woodworking show that the
>>seller was calling Orange Agate?
>>
>>Anyone have any idea what this wood is? I can't find any reference on
>>it.
>
>
> Osage orange? What does it look like?
>
> Charlie Self
> "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
> nothing."
> Redd Foxx