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alembic76407
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Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 391
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, September 16, 2005 - 9:57 am:   Edit Post

Does anyone what kind of wood this is? this would make a neat top. a real party bass




David T
flaxattack
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Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 596
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 7:55 am:   Edit Post

thats an idroppedtoomuchacid tree
811952
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Username: 811952

Post Number: 501
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 12:02 pm:   Edit Post

Those must be *Dead* trees...
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 122
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 4:57 pm:   Edit Post

David,

The bark and whatnot looks like madrone, but they are too straight and tall (I think).

Were these trees found on the west coast between BC and Northern California? That is the only place that the madrone grows.

Madrone is in the rhododendron family, that might get you in the ballpark. It is pretty hard to shape madrone, since it is extremely hard (that is why it doesn't need bark-- no insect can burrow in to the wood).

Brad
bob
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Username: bob

Post Number: 507
Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 10:45 pm:   Edit Post

Looks like eucalyptus to me. I have a couple of photos I've taken myself, also on Maui. I'm pretty sure the colors are in the bark layers, so I don't think it would work out as you might like.

If I remember correctly, madrone has a somewhat similar style or feeling, but tends to be mostly reddish.
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 672
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 9:11 am:   Edit Post

I agree. It looks like Eucalyptus to me too. There's LOTS of it around here. Indigenous to Austrailia. As I understand it, they brought it over to California many, many years ago figuring since it grew very fast and very straight it would be perfect fo the lumber industry. Of course before they did this no one checked out the qualities of the wood. VERY oily, VERY stringy VERY lousy for lumber! But they do smell great and because the hill off our back deck is full of them, our cat never suffers from fleas! Eucs are a natural flea repellent, but would not make a good Alembic.

Bill, tgo
alembic76407
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Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 392
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 11:11 am:   Edit Post

darn!! I thought they might have been endangered trees, so i could have cut one down and made a bass , I guess I'll have to get back to eating my spotted owl soup and looking for some other type of rare wood.

David T
PS: just kidding about the soup
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 677
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 11:34 am:   Edit Post

Owl tastes much better in a souffle.

Bill, tgo
chuckc
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Username: chuckc

Post Number: 21
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 1:01 pm:   Edit Post

Actually Owl tastes more like a cross between Bald Eagle and Ivory Billed Woodpecker.............Again Just kidding as the old joke goes.
hydrargyrum
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Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 146
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 1:07 pm:   Edit Post

Owl? Blech . . . I prefer condor eggs. But to each their own.
alembic76407
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Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 394
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 2:15 pm:   Edit Post

for dinner tonight, it's Baby Harp Seal on a bed of rice,





this going down hill real fast and not funny,
I love all critters baked or deep fried
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 679
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 3:38 pm:   Edit Post

Komodo Dragon Pilaf anyone?

Bill, tgo
beelee
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Username: beelee

Post Number: 90
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2005 - 5:23 pm:   Edit Post

Speaking of eucalyptus and critters indigenous to Austrailia.........

why not try some Koala Bear burgers ?

LOL
hydrargyrum
Intermediate Member
Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 147
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 7:33 am:   Edit Post

A little more on track . . . speaking of australian woods, how about Kauri?

kauri

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