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Paul Douglass

Paul Douglass

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My wife have been looking at houses... Went to one today, that I loved,,,her not so much. But all the furniture pictured goes with the house. The wood is very, very heavy, very tight grain/dense, very solid furniture.... I have to say my impression was Cocobolo! How could that be.. I have never seen large furniture made of Cocobolo.. I have quite a bit of it in small pieces, and came home looked at it felt it and man I do not know... Most of mine is the dark portion but the one that have the lighter wood looked and felt the same... The only way I could really tell for me is to saw some and smell it... Don't think that was going to happen... of coarse none of the realtors or finance guys had a clue what I was talking about... I know almost impossible to tell from the pictures. But any ideas? Maybe easier to see with the listing pictures.

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I am the worst when it comes to wood ID, but I remember seeing a video a while back (somewhere - don't remember where) ... in it the guy was building a bed from Hickory that looked much like the one you show... Hickory is very dense and heavy... also coloring is closer to your furniture than cocobolo is... all of the cocobolo I've ever had was dark brown with reddish overtones.
 
Putting in a vote for Sheesham which was all the rage and for which I know some people (not me, not my house!) who paid way to much for a bunch of poorly made flashy furniture from it. It looks vaguely similar to hickory but the contrasts are more striking (I have hickory cabinets and basically w/ sheesham the reds are redder and the whites are whiter) and it's somewhat heaver and denser. The grain is a bit different as well, but I'm having trouble explaining why.

The table set looks a whole lot like a Sheesham set Costco sold a few years back....


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I have never heard of Sheeham.... reading about it fits also.... Sold a Costco, may explain why they are leaving it behind with the house.... They must of loves the look... I wouldn't mind it for one bedroom... but all three and the dinning room set... a little overboard.. The picture Rayn Mooney posted look like the exact beds in the house, all king size... I did not look at how well built, but I do know they are very, very heavy.

Thanks for all the help!
 
we have been shopping at the local costco for over 12 years now, and have never seen such furniture, and seeing the prices asked for elsewhere, i can see why...
even at overstock.com, that bed alone is almost $2000
 
A close-up photo showing the grain better would help a lot. Does a workshop come with the house? Maybe it was built by the original owner. My guess is Hickory, based on what I see and "heavy". Here is a link to a website that provides good images to help identify wood. It is my GOTO for wood identification.

HobbitHouse Wood ID site

exotic wood ID site
hobbithouseinc.com

Charley
 
Paul Douglass said:
I did not look at how well built,
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My limited experience with actually examining build quality was specifically one Costco dining room set (I saw the bedroom furniture from the door and politely nodded that "yes indeed it sure does have a lot of figure to it").

The chairs were "fine" although not IMHO top quality and could have used some screw and glue blocks on the underside at the stress points, especially between the seat and the back. I wasn't strictly thrilled with grain direction in the legs either but considering they were "built stout" in that regard it probably wasn't a real problem.

The table was assembled with a distinct lack of understanding of wood movement and suffered a crack in the top on one side due to the stress. Replacing some of the underside connectors remedied the immediate extension of the problem.

They weren't especially poorly built, no worse than almost all regular furniture I see anyway I guess. It seemed like the premium was in the wood not the effort though.

Note that Sheesham is actually a rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo) so you could always cut it up into flutes and guitar parts :D
 
What a great thread. I too would have said hickory having never heard of sheesham. I am always pleasantly surprised at the things I can learn from others. Sheesham? I've just never run into it. I guess my world is smaller than I thought :D
 
Ryan Mooney said:
My limited experience with actually examining build quality was specifically one Costco dining room set (I saw the bedroom furniture from the door and politely nodded that "yes indeed it sure does have a lot of figure to it").

The chairs were "fine" although not IMHO top quality and could have used some screw and glue blocks on the underside at the stress points, especially between the seat and the back. I wasn't strictly thrilled with grain direction in the legs either but considering they were "built stout" in that regard it probably wasn't a real problem.

The table was assembled with a distinct lack of understanding of wood movement and suffered a crack in the top on one side due to the stress. Replacing some of the underside connectors remedied the immediate extension of the problem.

They weren't especially poorly built, no worse than almost all regular furniture I see anyway I guess. It seemed like the premium was in the wood not the effort though.

Note that Sheesham is actually a rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo) so you could always cut it up into flutes and guitar parts :D
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Ha, we think alike,,, my wife though it was a bit much and might be hard to resale,,, I told her not to worry the wood would not go to waste...
 
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