Light walnut and chestnut are what first came to mind as well, jumping on
the bandwagon here. As for olive, I’ve done some slabbing of olive wood,
albeit a California Olive and it was a hard beast of a wood when dried,
hardly worth the effort to resaw in the first place. Does olive grow to
sizes that would make decent sized boards? None of the trunk logs resawn
were more than 6-7 inches at most.

Michael

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:02 AM Bill Kasper  wrote:

> given the sharp contrast of the sap/heart that’s not a bad call.  but olive
> doesn’t have a lot of pores…
>
> bill
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> On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, Paul Gardner  wrote:
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> > Thanks Charlie, I'll bear this in mind. I'm hoping once I pull the
> current
> > finish off that I'll have a better understanding of what I'm dealing
> with.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Paul
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> > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 6:46 AM Charles Driggs 
> > wrote:
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> > > Sent from my iPad
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> > > > On May 16, 2022, at 5:11 PM, Paul Gardner  wrote:
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> > > > Assembled Galootarati,  
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> > > https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Other-Galoots/
> > Paul-Gardner/i-mMc3Ws3/A
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> > > https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Other-Galoots/
> > Paul-Gardner/i-LN25vGd/A
> > > >
> > > If that table is from Italy, my first reaction to the images might be
> > > correct —- there are a great many olive trees in Italy, so see if you
> can
> > > find some olive wood.
> > >
> > > Charlie
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Michael