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Old 10-21-2012, 03:21 PM
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Interesting information Doug. It's pretty neat hearing about all these cool uses for wood through the years. I read that steam ships used to have ironwood bearings for the propellers.
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Old 10-22-2012, 04:37 PM
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I am about 90% sure it is some sort of Rosewood like Cocobolo.
Cocobolo will have a spicy smell that will vary a bit. Ironwood will be sort of musty.
Pretty wood though.
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Old 11-13-2012, 12:12 PM
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I bought some cocobolo scales from a guy about six months ago and they are a lot different looking then the chunk of cocobolo I bought at the wood shop. This wood is almost in between the two and they all smell the same. It's going to make some nice knife handles I'm sure.
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Old 12-27-2012, 01:58 AM
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I am sure that it is cocobolo. look at the little pores/dots in the first pic. iron wood would not have those. I have used some myself that look almost exactaly like the stuff in your pictures. sand it a little bit and it should have a smell similar to cinimon, or kind of like big red gum.
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Old 12-29-2012, 01:06 PM
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It's cocobolo I'm positive on that now. Good score for ten bucks lol.


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