[Edited on January 23, 2010 at 3:07 AM. Reason : ]

1/23/2010 3:06:45 AM

Tree wood.

1/23/2010 3:10:54 AM

1/23/2010 3:12:19 AM

Is that varnished or bear wood?

1/23/2010 3:30:21 AM

har..

the back (as in top of the bear…) is varnished, but the bottom and head are not.

1/23/2010 3:40:44 AM

IBTHISTHREADTURNSTOCHITCHAT

1/23/2010 6:50:23 AM

scott

1/23/2010 8:27:36 AM

Fumbler may know. i'll get him to look at it when he wakes up.

1/23/2010 8:55:07 AM

i'm gonna guess walnut, maybe?

1/23/2010 9:17:22 AM

I believe that wood has some type of a fungus, Tim.

1/23/2010 10:05:49 AM

The bear is also heavier than it looks… that’s why i’m asking. its a denser wood than you come across, it seems like, on a daily basis.

1/23/2010 11:33:13 AM

it looks like the stump of a walnut tree.

[Edited on January 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM. Reason : walnut burl]

1/23/2010 11:52:41 AM

^ hmm… that seems like it could be it: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&q=walnut+burl&sa=N&start=21&ndsp=21

1/23/2010 2:19:07 PM

I very highly doubt it's walnut, just for the cost. Walnut burl is retardedly expensive. And the unstained section looks far too light/yellow to be walnut. Maybe Elm, Maple or something.

Your pictures aren't the easiest to decipher with

Also the weight isn't going to be that big of a tell, other than pine/balsa/bass woods, wood is pretty damn heavy

1/23/2010 3:26:42 PM

It looks homemade, so I doubt cost is the issue here. Anyone with a decent amount of land with some trees on it has access to burl.

burl tends to be denser than the rest of the tree, so that would explain why it feels so heavy. It doesn't really give you a clue as to what time of wood it is.

1/23/2010 3:37:23 PM

sand the bottom of the unfinished wood and sniff it

walnut has a VERY distinctive odor

[Edited on January 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM. Reason : s]

1/23/2010 3:38:12 PM

1/23/2010 4:01:52 PM

the bear does smell very bad, but we didn't know if that was because of where it was stored or if it was the varnish or what

Quote :

"Your pictures aren't the easiest to decipher with "

yeah, i'm not sure what qualities you need to see in the wood to tell. i figured some pics of the texture would work. And for this particular piece, cost wouldn't really be a factor...

[Edited on January 23, 2010 at 6:37 PM. Reason : ]

1/23/2010 6:32:46 PM

because it's finished it will be difficult to tell based on color.

1/23/2010 7:38:54 PM

does it shit in the woods?

1/23/2010 8:01:27 PM

Fumbler says that piece isn't expensive if it is walnut burl because the whole thing isn't burled. it looks more spalted than burled.

1/23/2010 10:58:23 PM

Looks like Oak. It is turning more golden brown in spots and oak does that. Also, there is a clear grain pattern which is another oak trait.

1/24/2010 10:15:13 AM

that looks nothing like oak

1/24/2010 12:07:20 PM

LOLOL TheBullDoza owns this book. (minus the LOLarious caption)

you guys should ask him!!

1/24/2010 12:10:48 PM

Well, if you read in the book, it will tell you how to identify the wood with just a 5x-10x magnifying lense....Its too difficult to say with it having a finish on it and the poor quality pictures. The best place to look is to look at the end grain (cross section of the wood perp to its longitudinal axis). I'm not going to get into it, cause i dont feel like explaining what the words are for the characteristics that you are looking for.

Something that will make this a bit easier is the origins of this bear. If we know where it was made, then we will have a better idea of what the possible species of wood it will be.

weight is also a good starting point, now just find its specific gravity to help narrow it down as well .....if you were dedicated, then youd go through the lengths to do this





[Edited on January 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM. Reason : f]

1/24/2010 12:24:01 PM

So one other thing to note is that the abnormality of burls can happen in many different species, but the number of species that actually produce the burls is quite low. The quality of your burl sucks...lacking burling action!!!

for the fuck of it....buckeye burl

1/24/2010 1:00:07 PM

hear that? don't bring those weak burls in here.

1/24/2010 1:09:09 PM

it’s not THAT big a deal to find out.

the only reason i’m asking is that my friend got it from someone, and when i picked it up, i was startled at its weight, and I was wondering what wood could be that heavy.

We have no way of knowing where it was made, but almost certainly somewhere in NC… if my friend would let me, i could probably find out its specific gravity (i’d have to put it in water to find out it’s volume, i assume…)

[Edited on January 24, 2010 at 1:11 PM. Reason : ]

1/24/2010 1:10:14 PM

I'm not really understanding what density is going to tell you if you don't know the moisture content of the wood.

1/24/2010 1:39:13 PM

moisture content?

It’s probably a couple of years old, and very dry...

1/24/2010 1:41:57 PM

Well given that the wood is old and has already acclimated, the moisture content is low and at equilibrium...prolly around 8%. If you know the specific gravity then youll be able to hone in your suspicious species because the SG is known for different species.

And this is actually not that great of method just because a fair amount of species more or less have around the same SG, not to mention that SGs will vary within the same species...sometimes greatly

[Edited on January 24, 2010 at 4:25 PM. Reason : t]

1/24/2010 4:23:10 PM

^5 ha!

1/24/2010 4:34:07 PM

it does look like some old carvings my grandmother made in buckeye


you can take it to the wood science department at nc state

1/26/2010 2:51:04 PM

1/28/2010 4:24:26 AM

Quote :

"could of"

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 11:24 AM. Reason : ibtm]

1/28/2010 11:24:11 AM