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Old 01-30-2012, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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I see a lot of this type of ultra fine-grained wood in older mid-century modern furniture and assume it must be really dense/strong to support all that weight with such slender proportions:

1950's / 60's Mid-Century Modern Chair | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/freakovsky/3606737172/ - broken link)

I also see it used for those needle-like legs certain console stereo systems and tables used back then.

I can honestly say that the wood of that particular chair is maple, like I said in an earlier post, I had a pair of those chairs and as a longtime member of the Annapolis Woodworkers Guild I can still tell you, it's maple.
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Old 02-03-2012, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Thanks for the opinions everyone. I don't see a lot of furniture that uses that type of wood and my own woodshop class was waaaaay back in the early 80s, so was uncertain about what tree it came from. I'm considering building a mid-century/Danish type of stand for a new flatscreen TV (42"). The TV only weighs around 45lbs but this stand will also be used to hold my HT gear along with dvd/CD/LP storage so it will also be quite long (front left and right speakers will be sitting on it along with a turntable) and heavy when all that "old fashioned" storage media is loaded into it.
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