this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Black walnut top, purpleheart legs, and maybe a maple plywood drawer front?

Looks like the side of the casing might also be the same hardwood plywood, just stained much darker?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Those were my three guesses too. Why one would use ply or stain on something like this has me bewildered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why did the drawer from look like ply to you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I could be mistaken, but many years ago I believe I learned that plywood is generally made by spinning a log while slicing a thin veneer off the surface, then stacking multiple of those veneers into plywood. The grain on the surface would be notably different when cutting wood with this method compared to sawing planks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Correct. Plywood gets a lot of strength from the alternating grain directions in each layer and the core plys aren't always the same species as the veneer/face plys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh God between autocorrect and me being in and out of fever and sleeping, that text is with of that aneurysm posting community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The grain pattern looks like veneer instead of solid wood.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

What's this, my hobby of wood working combined with my love of trek?

That's an upvote from me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, its wood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OP specifically said not the endgrain, so just the other two, the ones that don't show their endgrain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are indeed 4 woods