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Pink Flame Wood

This is made from a log slice and turned down to about 1/4 inch thck. If I remember correctly it was about 16 inches in dia. I thought people may enjoy seeing a rare wood.

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Jim King

Registered: September 2006
Posts: 34

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Date: Sun October 8, 2006
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Keywords: pink flame wood

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Gil

Thanks, Jim, that is a fine looking bowl, and wood.

#1 Sun October 8, 2006 11:29pm

Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

Jim, I know that you boil a lot of your wood. Did you boil this one? If you did, did you boil the blank or the roughout? 8)

#2 Mon October 9, 2006 3:26am

JimQuarles

Beautiful! If the wood I was offered as "Flame wood" last week was that colorful, I would have bought it. It was very much darker than this, but had good grain patterns, almost like a burl. It was about 1x4 and about 4' long, marked $100/bdft. It was their last piece, and would take much less for it.

#3 Mon October 9, 2006 3:46am

GC in VA

I do believe this is Box Elder. Nice job.

#4 Mon October 9, 2006 1:38pm

Jim King

RevDoug: It was boiled after rough turned. GC: This is not box elder, I am located in the Amazon basin.

#5 Mon October 9, 2006 3:40pm

GC in VA

Jim, any idea what the scientific name for pink flame wood is? All I could find was some for sale on e-bay and it mentioned it had worm holes. The red coloring may be the result of a beetle like the Box Elder Beetle.

#6 Mon October 9, 2006 8:07pm

Jim King

GC: Below I will attach a copy of a letter we received from our wood ID specialist. Since that letter we have cataloged at least 3 and probably 4 of the same family bit apparantly unkown. The pink coloring has nothing to do with the worm holes. We have trees without a flaw and lots of color. The lady who puts the wood on ebay is very careful and wants to maintain her 100 approval rating.

Good news for year 2005!

Pink flame (variety 'female / hembra') is Rinorea cf. multivenosa (Violaceae) of the violet family.

I have dissected the flower on my breakfast plate and examined it under my tiny handheld microscope. It is unmistakeably a species of Rinorea. I have a monograph on the genus, it was published in 1988 so it is a bit outdated.

The leaves suggest R. multivenosa. It was reported to occur just east of the Brazilian border, along the R?o Yavar?, not far from Iquitos.

A pressed plant can be viewed at
http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/vrrc/max/VIOL-rino-mult-bra-2132382.jpg
The fruit is supposed to be a capsule with three valves, with max 3 three seed, which are 4.5 mm. I hope that you or I can find ripe fruits soon.

The book says the tree is up to 3 meters but they do not have much data. There is no mention of the wood.

I will use the real microscope next week to take a closer look at the flowers so that I can decide, with certainty, if this is a known species of Rinorea, or perhaps a new one.

The very first Rinorea species was published in 1775 by the French naturalist Fusee Aublet: I have his book also with me right now (I borrowed it from the University of Georgia.

Happy New Year!

Mihaly

Mihaly Czako, Ph.D.
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The University of South Carolina
Department of Biological Sciences
700 Sumter St.
Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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Tel.: (1-803) 777-8928
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#7 Mon October 9, 2006 8:39pm

JR Horsley

OK IM NEW TO THIS, BOILED WOOD? HOWS THAT WORK? BY THE WAY THE BOWL IS VERY NICE.

#8 Mon October 9, 2006 8:49pm

Jim King

Hoss: Take a look at my web site showing the boiling process and there are two good articles . http://www.exoticwoodworld.com/index.php?c=static&sc=process.

#9 Mon October 9, 2006 9:11pm

Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

Hey Hoss, I just saw your location. I know who you are. When we go to Louisville Thrusday, I'll tell all I know about boiling. I've been doing it nearly since I started turning bowls. You told me that you registered, I just didn't put it together that this was you. Way to go.

#10 Tue October 10, 2006 4:20am

DetroitBill

I agree with GC of Virginia that this looks like box elder. That is not to say that it IS box elder ... only that we in the northern hemisphere have a similar looking wood with quite striking red streaks running through it against a background that resembles maple ... curls & all. I have a couple pieces turned in it that I can post here in a day or two. For us, it is pretty much a weed tree with no commercial value until someone with a lathe gets hold of it.The tree is notorious as the home of the black & red box-elder beetle which right now are swarming. Ick

#11 Tue October 10, 2006 5:32am

Chris Wright

Nice piece of flame wood Jim. In regards to this looking like box elder, yes and no...the coloring is very much the same, but having bought and turned much of both there are differences. One of the ways to know which you are looking at as with Jim's perfect example here (having turning it with the pith intact) is that on Flame wood the color eminates from the heart outwards whereas on box elder the color is strongest and most common coming from the sapwood inwards. The beetle holes amidst the coloring is also a strong indication of box elder. I have seen examples of flame wood where the heartwood is almost 100% pink/pinkish red for 4-6" with the "blobs" of color eminating from there.

Nice piece Jim. Thumbs Up!

#12 Tue October 10, 2006 4:11pm

kidcolombia

Jim King, great looking bowl, shape and finish included.
Please check your PM's for a note from me. Thanks!

#13 Thu October 12, 2006 1:48am

Jim King

kidcolombia: I cannot fing your PM , my email is jameskingpe@yahoo.es

#14 Fri October 13, 2006 2:54pm