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RE: What type of wood? Mahogany? - 6270_Productions - 05-06-2018 (05-06-2018, 08:18 AM)OneStaple Wrote: Ok, seems like luan is becoming the consensus. Not worth saving. It is best to throw it out with the trash. NOTE: Please advise of your trash pickup date and your address. RE: What type of wood? Mahogany? - mike4244 - 05-06-2018 (05-06-2018, 08:18 AM)OneStaple Wrote: Ok, seems like luan is becoming the consensus. RE: What type of wood? Mahogany? - OneStaple - 05-07-2018 Haha, in hindsight, I realize that that was a silly question to ask here. Ok, I'll grab it and add it to my stash/collection. No clue what I'll do with it yet. I'm going to have to figure out what to do with a bunch of other wood too. We're going through my grandpa's estate (20 acres in the country) in preparation for selling it. It has been a great place to store things that I don't have room for. I have 4 flitch-cut logs of lumber stored up there, along with some other random boards and the lauan/luan (seen it spelled both ways) now. That's a lot of wood to store in the suburbs on top of what I already have. Good problem to have, I guess. Tyler RE: What type of wood? Mahogany? - hbmcc - 05-07-2018 Luan was poor-man's Mahogany (called same) then replaced the latter as those stocks dried up. It was the rage for interior finish and doors. Sort of the one-two-punch with Spanish Walnut; black and black. It's the reason I refuse to paint clear finished open grain wood. Memory tells me, according to Constantine's, it has the look and nothing else of Mahogany. RE: What type of wood? Mahogany? - Chuck 80 - 05-07-2018 (05-07-2018, 11:43 AM)hbmcc Wrote: Luan was poor-man's Mahogany (called same) then replaced the latter as those stocks dried up. It was the rage for interior finish and doors. Sort of the one-two-punch with Spanish Walnut; black and black. It's the reason I refuse to paint clear finished open grain wood. Memory tells me, according to Constantine's, it has the look and nothing else of Mahogany. I was given several boards of it and was also wondering what to use it for, so I decided to resew it into 3/8" boards and made a couple of serving trays with it and stained them with Mahogany dye and actually the trays came out nice and My wife snatched them up pretty quickly so it s useful. RE: What type of wood? Mahogany? - gjohn - 05-08-2018 In junior high wood shop, it was considered the preferred wood. We had that and pine. Most projects were made from both woods for a contrast. |