Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 24, 2011 19:07:14 GMT -5
Snuffy asked to see what this stuff looks like n the inside. Matt Dillon also calls this material "pocket rot wood". Here is a picture of a cab and another of the slabs it came from...Mel   |
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Post by stefan on Mar 24, 2011 19:16:13 GMT -5
Ok why is it called dino bone wood and pocket rot wood? I guess I understand the dino bone thing but why pocket rot wood. Whatever its called it is wonderful!
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Post by snuffy on Mar 24, 2011 19:19:33 GMT -5
Thanks,Mel,I know what to look for now,but seriously doubt I'll find any of that in my piles.  .Wow stuff. snuffy |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 24, 2011 20:04:23 GMT -5
Stefan: Yep the first name because it looks like dino bone. The second because the wood apparently partially had it's cells rot away before mineralization took place. Then, as with dino bone the pockets left by this decomposition are filled in like little nodules or sometimes with crystals like tiny geodes....Mel
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Post by texaswoodie on Mar 24, 2011 20:17:04 GMT -5
Mel's example is cut across the grain. If you cut it with the grain or at an angle, you'll get enlongated cells which I personally prefer.
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 24, 2011 22:41:36 GMT -5
That's good to know Curt. I've been studying the example I found yesterday trying to decide if and how I want to cut it. it seems to show pattern in almost every direction but the cells look more fanned out on one side. those may be those elongate patterns you speaking of. Or heck, I just may tumble the whole thing. Hard to decide....Mel
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Post by Toad on Mar 24, 2011 22:54:15 GMT -5
Beuatiful pattern, but I guess you knew that...
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Post by johnjsgems on Mar 25, 2011 7:10:01 GMT -5
So is that a palm wood that the normal dots (as seen in Texas, LA.) rotted and filled?
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 25, 2011 8:55:51 GMT -5
John, To me the vascular bundles do not appear to be distributed like palm wood so I'd say no. That being said, there are so many weird wood types here in Texas that it could very well be another kind of palm that I'm not familiar with. There really needs to be a book written on Texas petrified wood.....Mel
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Post by tandl on Mar 25, 2011 11:10:38 GMT -5
Very cool wood ! Interesting no name . It appears to be trunk and not roots , i know you did`nt say it was roots , just an observation . the pockets , seen in the slabs , seem to follow a ring pattern, although roots of most wood have rings . looking at the slabs , note the bottom of them seems to be nearer the center , with the rings looking like there on the outer diameter of the wood . I when cutting 'firewood' have cut roots of trees that have toppled and alot of the time the center of the root is off center usually at the bottom of a horizontal root. maybe because the root grows easier in the softer ground above  |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 25, 2011 12:30:48 GMT -5
Yeah, I was looking at Matt Dillon's dino bone wood pics and he has some that are definitely root replacements ( prob. palm root) and some that look to be palm pocket rot wood.. It looks to me like my specimen is an above ground piece of wood and as Ted has stated, the vascular bundles do seem to be in bands. Many of Matt's show this too, so I would tend to think these are non palm examples of dicot plants. Interestingly enough, much of the shrinkwood that looks to be dicot is actually monocot palm wood as certain sections will show the palm fiber traces among the brecciated rehealed sections. Whatever the source, I find this stuff totally fascinating. I plan to heat up the old saw tomorrow afternoon as it looks like I have a break in my ranch chores at that time. I can't wait to get into some of these pieces...Mel
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Post by akansan on Mar 28, 2011 14:41:54 GMT -5
NICE! So there's now a name to the stone that I picked up a slab for a few years back. I think Beef had a slab of it as well from a different show? It's funny how things circulate at the same time - loved the look then, love the look now.
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 1, 2011 20:47:18 GMT -5
man you guys find the best wood i was just lookin at curts wood both very cool
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.Wow stuff.
