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Doing a Woodrat!!

Post by Bob Connor » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:42 pm

We got given this old table top and were told it was Walnut.

I've sliced it up in the finest traditions of Woodrat furniture butchery and it is a dark chocolate brown but is also very light in weight. Light enough to make a nice top really.

What do you reckon it is?

Regardless of what it is it'll make a nice instrument
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Post by rocket » Sat Oct 19, 2013 6:39 pm

looks a bit Mahoganish to me Bob.
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Post by Tod Gilding » Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:22 pm

wood ?
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Post by Bob Connor » Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:29 pm

rocket wrote:looks a bit Mahoganish to me Bob.
The pics don't do the colour justice Rod. It's really dark. It doesn't feel like Mahogany either although the second two pics do look like Mahogany.

If I remember I'll bring a few bits with me next weekend.

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Post by DarwinStrings » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:06 pm

Looks a bit toonish to me Bob.

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Post by Bob Connor » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:23 pm

The weight and texture is similar to the Surian that I got from Maurie Howlett Jim.

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Re: Doing a Woodrat!!

Post by curly » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:44 pm

I'd say it looks a lot like Aus Red Cedar . Pore structure , light weight , oxidises to red brown . . . . .
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Post by DarwinStrings » Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:59 pm

Given that it is a bit of old Aussie furniture that looks a bit like Surian Bob then Toona Ciliata would be a safe bet (especially that last pic) and I ain't betting against Curly.

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Post by rocket » Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:31 pm

Looks like a good score anyways Bob.
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Post by needsmorecowbel » Sun Oct 20, 2013 1:06 pm

That one is going straight into submission for the Oxford Luthier's Dictionary....

"Doing a Woodrat".
Repurposing of old furniture and antiquities into stringed instruments

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Post by kiwigeo » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:31 pm

Bob Connor wrote:We got given this old table top and were told it was Walnut.

I've sliced it up in the finest traditions of Woodrat furniture butchery and it is a dark chocolate brown but is also very light in weight. Light enough to make a nice top really.

What do you reckon it is?

Regardless of what it is it'll make a nice instrument
Looks like ****** Laminex
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Re: Doing a Woodrat!!

Post by ozwood » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:38 pm

Looks like ****** Laminex

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Post by charangohabsburg » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:53 pm

needsmorecowbel wrote:That one is going straight into submission for the Oxford Luthier's Dictionary....

"Doing a Woodrat".
Repurposing of old furniture and antiquities into stringed instruments
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kiwigeo wrote:Looks like ****** Laminex
So this would be Faux Laminex if it isn't Laminex?
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Post by Nick » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:47 am

I'm hopeless at this "What timber" game but as Stu said (and eloquently defined), I think we've coined a new official term to be used on the ANZLF "Doing a Woodrat" 8) 8)
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Post by Kev3 » Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:31 am

Think there needs to be different degrees of "doing a Woodrat". :wink:

A true 'Master' Woodrat doesn't just repurpose furniture timber for GSO's - to start he boldly walks into antique establishments, buys said goods and promptly saws it up right there before the dealers eyes !

Cracked me up that holiday pic Woodrat posted :lol:
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Post by woodrat » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:02 am

Kev3 wrote:Think there needs to be different degrees of "doing a Woodrat". :wink:

A true 'Master' Woodrat doesn't just repurpose furniture timber for GSO's - to start he boldly walks into antique establishments, buys said goods and promptly saws it up right there before the dealers eyes !

Cracked me up that holiday pic Woodrat posted :lol:
I have been away for the weekend and have just caught up with this thread.....so here are my observations....

Bob....I approve! ....lets face it, any vase that is being held off the floor could be held up by any old material....Brazilian rosewood, Cuban Mahogany, old Growth Aussie Red Cedar or similar are just too good for this purpose and need to be rescued and be allowed to sing in a beautiful musical instrument! ...:) That's my stance on the matter...:)

Kev....that was definitely fun cutting the legs off in front of the auction house staff (one of whom I asked to take the picture of the event for posterity)....but I did make sure that I paid my money and got a receipt for the goods so there could be no misunderstanding about who owned the piece of furniture at the time of the act when the legs were lying on the floor in a pool of sawdust! :lol:

Stu...As far as "doing a Woodrat" entering into the vernacular I'm all for it!

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Post by Kamusur » Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:44 pm

needsmorecowbel wrote:That one is going straight into submission for the Oxford Luthier's Dictionary....

"Doing a Woodrat".
Repurposing of old furniture and antiquities into stringed instruments

Origins: Australia Post 2008: See Also: "Whatnot"
We should just use the term in the verb form = "Woodratting".
And a "Whatnot" is now an acronym meaning "a future Guitar".

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Re: Doing a Woodrat!!

Post by needsmorecowbel » Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:55 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: Steve that's great!
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