guess the wood

[joerobson]

let me know when to do the reveal...

[Violadamore]

Holly?  I've seen them that big around here. 

[MeyerFittings]

Are those saw marks or a planed area? Gone tomorrow, so won't be in for the reveal.

[joerobson]

Holly?  I've seen them that big around here. 

 

Holly?  I've seen them that big around here. 

closest yet

[joerobson]

saw marks

[MeyerFittings]

Myrtlewood?

[MeyerFittings]

Wait, wait, I know, I know ,

[Addie]

Boxwood.

[Violadamore]

Boxwood.

If so, that tall and straight, somebody had one humongous hedge.

 

Red maple.

[joerobson]

Boxwood.

Addie,

That's a bingo!

This is the only boxwood I have ever had in the round. It was 50 years old when I got it 25 years ago.

Good eye.

Joe

[Addie]

 

WHOO! YEAH!

 

 

WUH!

[Urban Luthier]

Rico,

I like this game....let's try an easy one.

Joe

i suspect this weights a ton

[Wolfjk]

 

Addie,

That's a bingo!

This is the only boxwood I have ever had in the round. It was 50 years old when I got it 25 years ago.

Good eye.

Joe

Hi Joe,

If you think that is "boxwood" you've been sold a pig in a poke!

[Conor Russell]

Staining musical instruments, 1850

https://books.google.com/books?id=oUdJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA72&dq=to+stain+boxwood&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYr-7boLnKAhXIQyYKHcyMCykQ6AEIMDAA#v=onepage&q=to%20stain%20boxwood&f=false

Paint the pegs.

For fingerboards, flutes, etc, it refers the reader to another section, which uses a logwood stain.

P.S. the black logwood stain includes verdigris... keep those old pegs out of your mouth.[/qu

Thanks for the link Addie.

And congratulations. You're a genius.

[fiddlecollector]

 

Hi Joe,

If you think that is "boxwood" you've been sold a pig in a poke!

Why?

[Conor Russell]

The pictures could be a bit better, but it looks ok to me!

by the way Joe , is that the way you say it - 'that's a bingo'?

You just say Bingo.

[Addie]

Boxwood gets big...

[joerobson]

 

Hi Joe,

If you think that is "boxwood" you've been sold a pig in a poke!

It is boxwood.

 

The pictures could be a bit better, but it looks ok to me!

by the way Joe , is that the way you say it - 'that's a bingo'?

You just say Bingo.

Connor,

Joe

[Janito]

I am adding this late reply to the question regarding the dark pegs in post #1 because I tripped over a long piece of IPE today that looked remarkably like the peg wood. This piece has remarkably straight grain, no knots and no pores - and it is super dense.

 

Apologies of this is completely irrelevant by now.

[Conor Russell]

Bingo!!!

[Wolfjk]

 

Why?

 A boxwood log does not have flakey or smoth bark. The bark is like an integral part of the wood.

Even the bark on a small branch is ridged.

Here is photo of some English boxwood:

[Conor Russell]

I think that Joe's piece looks ok Woljjk

 

Boxwood has a really soft crumbly thin bark. Over years it dries out and can flake off, and the surface texture wears smooth. You can scrape it off with your thumbnail, and it turns to powder. A few decades knocking about a workshop, and it will look like Joe's.

 

The pieces you have look very dark on my screen. Any I've seen is a pale creamy colour.

[MeyerFittings]

Yep, this piece came from Hills shop. I just never saw a piece that big so I missed it.

[Wolfjk]

 

I think that Joe's piece looks ok Woljjk

 

Boxwood has a really soft crumbly thin bark. Over years it dries out and can flake off, and the surface texture wears smooth. You can scrape it off with your thumbnail, and it turns to powder. A few decades knocking about a workshop, and it will look like Joe's.

 

The pieces you have look very dark on my screen. Any I've seen is a pale creamy colour.

Conor I got my stock 34 years ago!

[Conor Russell]

I don't doubt that yours is boxwood too Wolfjk, but the few bits I have look different. 

 

Joe's piece looks big for some reason, but if that's a mug mark beside it, maybe it's just about four inches.