Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 2, 2010 10:12:57 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Here are the first slabs I've cut from some of the Live Oak County wood I picked out at the rock yard sale the other day. I'm very pleased with the quality and colors and can't wait to make another trip out there. Sorry for the bad lighting. I shoot on my deck and the sun is still fairly low in the sky....Mel First two slabs are palm fiber. Fossils that polish are one of my cab collection subsets so I'm really tickled to have some of this to cab as it's very unlike any other palm I have. These next two, Matt Dillon of Dardlrocks fame called palm of an unknown type. It's definitely root of some kind but the rootlets are very small compared to what I usually call Palmoxylon. It could very well be some kind of fern or even cycad root.
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Post by gr on Dec 2, 2010 10:24:26 GMT -5
Mel, looking forward to seeing the cabs you make from these as they are some very interesting, patterened pieces...Gary
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Post by texaswoodie on Dec 2, 2010 10:40:31 GMT -5
Awesome stuff Mel!
Curt
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Post by tandl on Dec 2, 2010 10:47:40 GMT -5
First is very cool ! Second , the roots look almost identical to mine . I see on the right edge of the slab looks like palm though . I think it is a section of root , and a bit of trunk . My slab is oddly the same , having alot of root mantle and a bit of the pith xylem . That does make some sense , more likely a rootball and lower trunk would be preserved through burial . Supposedly psaronius had roots that came down from the upper parts of the trunk , down and into the ground . It is said they helped support the tree ? That does`nt make perfect sense to me . I discovered this wood several years ago , in a river . I find them scattered in the river and bars . I have`nt found the source yet , but believe they are eroding out of these sandstone cliffs . Pretty hard to search them though , there 90 degree vertical .
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 2, 2010 11:13:24 GMT -5
Very interesting Ted! I have a great love for fossil wood and buy every book I can get and still find very little information is really available. Mat Dillon says that it's a type of small palm and I kind of agree with him as I've found several fiber example where the vascular bundles are much smaller than Palmoxylon in my collection, maybe only half the size. If you think about it, there are many palm types still alive today so probably we are dealing with a pile of different fossil palms too. Interesting to study on anyway.....Mel
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stoneviews
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Post by stoneviews on Dec 2, 2010 11:15:36 GMT -5
I like them both, very nice.
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Post by tandl on Dec 2, 2010 11:22:08 GMT -5
I agree about the different types , and the study and wonder is very fun . I have several other types , i don`t know yet what they are , or if anybody does ;D .Check out Chemnitz Germany - wood on goggle .
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carloscinco
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Post by carloscinco on Dec 2, 2010 20:49:19 GMT -5
Those are nice looking examples. Great patterning and they look like they'll take a glass polish.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Dec 3, 2010 8:21:54 GMT -5
Very nice, looking forward to seeing what they look like polished up!
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Post by deb193redux on Dec 3, 2010 13:16:57 GMT -5
I think the fiber ones are really nice.
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Dec 3, 2010 13:48:17 GMT -5
I read somewhere that the wood with the very small dots is actually a cousin of palm wood and is actually " grape vine ". Not sure if this is true or not, but that is what I have been calling it ever since.
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Dec 3, 2010 14:18:23 GMT -5
here is a picture of petrified wood that I initially thought was palmwood but found out that it is probably " grape vine". I found this wood near Tilden, Texas in the general Choke Canyon area . I had this material carved into various carvings, guitar picks, etc. see more pictures : www.digforcrystals.com/photohosting.html at the bottom of page.
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Post by Toad on Dec 3, 2010 14:39:11 GMT -5
Very cool stuff. Love the colors.
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on Dec 3, 2010 15:56:55 GMT -5
Beautiful colors on that palm wood, looks very solid too.
Adrian
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Post by frane on Dec 3, 2010 16:14:48 GMT -5
Those will make some amazing cabs! Fran
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 3, 2010 22:57:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I had heard that wood called grapevine too but grapevines are dicotyledons while plants in the palm group are monocotyledons, not even distant relatives. As Matt suggests in his flickr photostream these plants with the palm like smaller vascular bundles must be a monocot so are more than likely different species of palm or fern. It's just unfortunate that so little info seems to exist on these interesting plant fossils. Wish I knew more about them...Mel
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