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What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - Cooler - 04-10-2017
It is mentioned in a book describing furniture in Cicero's time.
https://books.google.com/books?id=fDBHvzlmIjkC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=tuyere+and+amboyna.&source=bl&ots=zAToMFXOT_&sig=js6uOLX-54aYcT0wALO-ej1ti7Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOud3W0prTAhUn6IMKHVnRDrkQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q=tuyere%20and%20amboyna.&f=false
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - K. L. McReynolds - 04-10-2017
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Thuya
Thuya is an alternate name for thyine, which is the wood tuyere is called.
Both seem to be burl woods.
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RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - packerguy® - 04-10-2017
Amboyna is the burl wood from a padauk tree.
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - AHill - 04-11-2017
(04-10-2017, 09:45 PM)packerguy® Wrote: Amboyna is the burl wood from a padauk tree.
Sometimes. Primarily, it's the burl from Narra, from Indonesia. Both are from the same genus. The stuff sold as amboyna from padauk is from Burmese padauk. Most padauk we see is actually African padauk. Another species entirely.
http://www.wood-database.com/amboyna/
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - Herb G - 04-11-2017
What is it? Just about the most expensive wood on the planet right now.
I have a nice little stock of burls, none of them are Amboyna.
Way too rich for my blood, and very hard to turn as well.
It is brittle as my arteries. It tends to explode when turning.
I stay away from it like snakewood.
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - Steve N - 04-11-2017
Amboyna was on one of the last projects John Fry did before he went retirement city. I miss his posts.
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - mbholden - 04-12-2017
From "Identifying Tropical Hardwoods in Historic American Furniture" by Joshua Lane, published by Winterthur.
"Amboyna, obtained from several species of Pterocarpus (most commonly pterocarpus indicus) is a heavyweight wood (SG 0.66) with prominent figure and spectacular burl wood. Indigenous to Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, the Moluccas, and New Guinea, amboyna was first traded by Europeans from the small Moluccan island of Ambon/Amboina in the mid 17th century."
I have nothing on tuyere wood, sorry.
Mike
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - Paul K. Murphy - 04-12-2017
Thuja or thuya is a softwood. It's color is just like redwood. A very desirable burl wood often obtained from North Africa.
RE: What is tuyere and amboyna wood? - SteveS - 04-14-2017
About nine years ago I bought a 57 lb slab, 2" thick, of amboyna burl and it still sits in my shop. eventually I'll do something with it.
Last year I bought an 80 lb whole thuya burl specifically for resale. I still have about half of it left.