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Offline alsayyed

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This is the type of wood I work with
« on: May 29, 2007, 04:12:16 am »
Hello to everyone. Many people at the net ask them about what type of tree do you have in Qatar. So today I have took my camera and decided to take these photos. The wood spices that I am displaying here are very hard wood I mean hard I have to run this on my jointer twice or three times in order to get it smooth.
Maybe eucalyptus SP. most eucalyptus grows in Australia or part of Africa. So if you have any clue let me know.

 
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2007, 07:19:33 am »
Total guesswork..

But the first board looks like an acacia species, related to Tasmanian blackwood or Koa?
Second board may be a Eucalypt species, but there are so many it's hard to tell without more info.

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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2007, 08:32:55 am »
More guesswork...

The one on the left looks a bit like olive wood.
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2007, 09:02:49 am »
Ian i think your gussing is about 80% becuase i heard this before but not sure .
regarding the second gussing it is olive. Olive do not grow in Qatar people have tried but not coming is good of other countries.
 
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2007, 07:39:28 pm »
Alsayyed, I dont know what it is but it sure looks nice. :). The one on the right kinda looks like walnut to me.
Thanks for the pics.
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2007, 02:21:12 pm »
On the left appears to be olive, but the one on the right is definitely eucalyptus.
I cut that by the ton, and it looks identical to what I have.
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2007, 08:30:47 pm »
Quote from: treecyclers on June 01, 2007, 02:21:12 pm
, but the one on the right is definitely eucalyptus.
I cut that by the ton, and it looks identical to what I have.
Superdave

thank you for the reply. could you tell what is the eucalyptus used for. i have asked people tell only for the shade. it this true.
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2007, 07:15:19 pm »
Eucalyptus have a few different uses.
It's used for medicines, aroma therapy, and herbalistics.
I use it for furniture, turning stock, and firewood.
It's very hard, it's a pain in the hiney to dry effectively, and is murderous on tooling.
Conversely, it's beautiful, takes a finish very nicely, and the majority of what I get is highly figured in the AAA-AAAAA range. I have even had a few pieces of "Holy COW!" figure too.
That would be something of a 100% pommelle figure in a 12'x28" board.
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2007, 07:41:08 pm »
alsayyed, how about showing us some Lebanon Cedar. Does any of it grow there in Qatar?
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Re: This is the type of wood I work with
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2007, 05:52:08 am »
This might help. I loaded it as an HTML, so I don't know if there are photos. It seems various Acacia and Euc. are most prominent species.

http://www.icarda.org/APRP/PDF/New%20PDFs/racoll/Qatar.pdf.
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