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Graye
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When we moved in to this house there was a pile of rotting logs under brambles in the back garden.  After disposing of a lot of them (all oak but rotted away) and rescuing some for the fire we discovered all sorts of sawn pieces as opposed to logs.  Many of them have been rescued to make shelves and other odds and ends.  There were three enormous thick pieces which have now been used to make the tops for rustic coffee tables.  We are now left with one beautiful piece of hardwood which is currently being turned into yet another table but we can't decide what type of wood it is.  It just isn't quite heavy enough to be oak and the grain pattern looks all wrong.  We've only roughly sanded it at the moment but can anyone hazard a guess about what it might be please?

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Chestnut might be a good bet as there are a lot of chestnut trees around here.  It will probably end up with oak legs.  I'll post a few pictures once it's done.

Thanks for the ideas.  Perhaps there might be more once it's finished and waxed.  Certainly too nice to be chopped up for firewood anyway!

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I must admit that I have no idea what it might be.  Is red pine a type of hardwood?  This seems amazingly heavy for pine - more like oak.  It's also incredibly hard to work.  We DO have another piece of very heavy pine (from a different source) but it is a post rather than a flat piece and hard to do a comparison.

Here's another view if that would help?

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If it is a very resinous pine (the dark bits) then it can be very heavy and difficult to work. The resin is quite hard and will dull those tools in no time.

Its hard to tell from the picture but if you cut it somewhere, you should easily smell the resin if it is pine

Danny

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Thanks for that.  Here are a couple of macro pix of the cut edge of the table.  The true depth of the wood is around about an inch.  Hope these are good enough I've never used the camera to shoot macro pix before.  Let me know if not and I'll try some in daylight. There are no signs of any resin smells on the cut pieces.

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[IMG]http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l360/janlawther/DSCN4490.jpg[/IMG]

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