What is tuyere and amboyna wood?

[Cooler]

It is mentioned in a book describing furniture in Cicero's time.

https://books.google.com/books?id=fDBHvz...a.&f=false

[K. L. McReynolds]

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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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[packerguy®]

Amboyna is the burl wood from a padauk tree.

[AHill]

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/

[Herb G]

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.

[Steve N]

Amboyna was on one of the last projects John Fry did before he went retirement city. I miss his posts.

[mbholden]

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

[Paul K. Murphy]

Thuja or thuya is a softwood. It's color is just like redwood. A very desirable burl wood often obtained from North Africa.

[SteveS]

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.