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Post by texaswoodie on Sept 2, 2007 18:09:54 GMT -5
Dang, I hate being wrong! But if I am, I'm the first to admit it. The wood that I have been posting as palm wood is not palm! Today I found a new spot to hunt and found this little feller along with a few pounds of regular stuff. This is exactly what I have been calling palm wood. The problem is that palm in Texas is found only in the Catahoula Formation. I found this piece 150 miles north of the Catahoula. In a search for the truth, I did some research and found that it may be Snakewood. I don't know for sure, but that's what I think at this time. The Houston Gem and Mineral Society has an expert in petrified wood and I am going to try to go to their show the last part of this month and talk with him. I would like for him to identify this material so that in the future I can be sure I know of which I speak. I truly apologize to all that have been following my threads for misleading you. If I sent you some wood and mislabeled it as palm, please accept my sincere apologies. Snakewood is probably as hard or harder to find than palm, so if it turns out that this is snakewood, please send it back immediately! ;D ;D ;D Curt
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agatemaggot
Cave Dweller
Member since August 2006
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Post by agatemaggot on Sept 2, 2007 18:48:26 GMT -5
Curt, If you were to send me a piece of this material and wished to call it Palm wood , I would happily agree with you, I think it's the greatest palm wood I've ever seen. I do have several small slices of light tan colored palm wood , typical, I guess you would call it. Your wood is'nt EXACTLY like it.
Not HARDLY !!!!!
YOUR'S LOOKS A LOT BETTER THAN MINE !!!!
Harley / Agatemaggot
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Post by Lady B on Sept 2, 2007 19:11:04 GMT -5
Curt, In the truest spirit of RTH camaraderie, I want you to know that I accept your apology for misleading me into thinking you sent me Palm Wood in your little token of appreciation. I want to assure you that I will happily change the label from Palm Wood to Snake Wood. However, while I sincerely admire your very clever attempt to retrieve the newly identified Snake Wood, I find I cannot oblige you. That Snake Wood, by whatever name, is now MINE! ALL MINE!!!Palm Wood
Lady B's Snake Wood--which was once Curt's Sincerely, Lady B
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firewalker45
freely admits to licking rocks
Member since August 2006
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Post by firewalker45 on Sept 2, 2007 19:42:13 GMT -5
Gee Curt and I held you in such high esteem. There are many members who are shattered and are only a shell of what they once were; due to this revelation. How can we be sure that you were wrong, rather than you LIED to us? Oh the shame of it all. As I see it, the only honorable thing for you to do; is to fall on your sword. Please send me your collection first! Daniel LOL Don't sweat the small stuff. We're all only human.
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Post by beefjello on Sept 2, 2007 19:46:44 GMT -5
Curt, you're allowed one freebie. That was it. We expect tip top ID's on all your future wood discoveries from here out, capiche?
Heh.. ;D
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Post by puppie96 on Sept 3, 2007 11:04:13 GMT -5
Doesn't it look like it might be dino bone?
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Post by texaswoodie on Sept 3, 2007 14:42:29 GMT -5
Thank you Harley!!
Thanks Daniel I think I'll wait a while before falling on my sword. I may do something one of these days to repent my mistakes of past. :-)
Lady B Now don't be difficult. You know I would never take back a present....Unless of course I did something dumb and mislabled it. Then by all means I would not dream of you keeping something that would make you feel bad of me every time you saw it.
Brian Gottcha. From now on I'll never make a mistake. I promise. :-)
Pup Nope, it's wood. Just have to figure out what kind of wood.
Curt
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Post by Tonyterner on Sept 4, 2007 13:23:37 GMT -5
Snakewood huh. That's interesting, I've never heard of it before. I wonder if it is any relation to the current living tree called snakewood, which is a small tree from Africa. Be interesting to find out. No need to apologize, if I did that everytime I was wrong I would never get to say anything else. ;D
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