-MIKE- on Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:49:31 -0600
typed in rec.woodworking the following:
On 2/11/18 9:15 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
-MIKE- on Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:24:38 -0600
typed in rec.woodworking the following:
On 2/11/18 7:14 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yes, that is my quandary. I have a stack of pallets, and some
rather nice (for some values of nice) boards in some of them.
Hardwood, I think "oak" - but I do not know. One thing I do know,
when I saw them loose, the wood gives off a pungent smell, similar
to that of strong vinegar. (I hope it is the wood, and not the saw
blade.)
There are at least half a dozen woods I can identify by their smell when
being cut.
Oak, walnut, bubinga, cedar (duh!), hickory, purpleheart, white pine,
probably more if I think about it.

Yeah, I can tell pine from "not pine"

But which one smells like vinegar?


Probably the ones that held the crate of vinegar that sprang a leak. :-D

Hmmm, that's a possibility. These are from a grocery store.

OTOH, the last batch were from a hardware store.

tschus
pyotr

PS speaking of vinegar, I learned a few years ago, of a disaster for
my great grandfather, and the probable Environmental Catastrophe
involved as well.
Seems he had a 3000 gallon tank full of apple cider/vinegar
rupture. Total loss, and it flooded the creek too. No mention in
the article about any fish kills though.
--
pyotr filipivich
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