That's a beautiful forearm!
What is BRW?
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My guess is Brazilian Rose Wood.
That's a beautiful forearm!
What is BRW?
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My guess is Brazilian Rose Wood
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Someone mentioned pinyma....same family as our ornamental crepe Myrtle. I have a 62lb root ball off one all burled out. Looks like B.e.m. Burl
Persimmon is common in our parts most that cut it burn it because they think it’s rotten in the middle....I’m not even close to joking
There’s also the date plum which is a smaller more brown looking persimmon. I say this not as wood but the fruit, it’s my moms favorite everyone here always called the wild persimmon but it’s date plum!
Which brings me to my favorite wood I don’t know really why cuz man Bz...Brazilian rosewood is just perfect...but plum is just so perfectly feeling in my fingers I mean it’s plenty hard and all but it’s got a softness to its grain like a woman skin.
Osage is another and most of these we’ve named are full of reaction wood . To add another good one would be mulberry.
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Massaranduba aka "bullet wood"?
you might consider a note to Derek at Billiard Restoration Service in Kansas.
He provided me with some recreated parts when I refreshed the 1920ish BBC Medallist in my pic
We have wild persimmon here in the Texas Hill Country. The Texas Ebony I have collected ranges from a chocolate brown to very dark brown. Another great Texas wood is huisache, a reddish brown wood which is similar to mesquite(probably a member of that family). So far, I have not found a wild persimmon large enough for cue work. If I did, I would not cut it down. The deer, raccoons, and possums would probably string me up!
I have watched whitetails eat the green, unripened wild persimmons. They roll their lips back and you know that fruit must be very sour but they keep on stripping it off the tree.
We have wild persimmon here in the Texas Hill Country. The Texas Ebony I have collected ranges from a chocolate brown to very dark brown. Another great Texas wood is huisache, a reddish brown wood which is similar to mesquite(probably a member of that family). So far, I have not found a wild persimmon large enough for cue work. If I did, I would not cut it down. The deer, raccoons, and possums would probably string me up!
I have watched whitetails eat the green, unripened wild persimmons. They roll their lips back and you know that fruit must be very sour but they keep on stripping it off the tree.
This is the wood that is resisting my efforts to match. Need to duplicate one (only, thank goodness) of these "toilet plungers" for one face of one leg.
The wood in question is very uniform, very dark brown with little grain, and no color lines or variation that surrounds both the bottom "bell" shape and the top handle shape above the stem.
The closest match on hand is snakewood, but without the mottling. It's that dark, hard and plastic-y looking in person. Might just use South American walnut, but that is not near as dense and the color is not as dark. Any ideas?
First, thanks for starting this post, and tolerating my peripheral Q's.:smile:
Had never heard of Massaranduba, but it looks too red in pictures. This wood is almost a perfect match for dark chocolate in color and texture (less visible texture than photo reveals)
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