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22/03/2014 11:59 am  

Hey all, any help with this wood ID would be great. This is an Evans DCM with some of silence screw in glides.

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22/03/2014 12:02 pm  

And this one too please
Also if someone could help if this one too (not Evans) that would be great. I think it is from the 70s.


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22/03/2014 2:23 pm  

my guess.
Birch on top.
Walnut on the bottom.
Best,
Aunt Mark


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22/03/2014 3:06 pm  

Concur with Mark on the birch.
The second one looks like somebody might have tried to stain it dark.


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22/03/2014 5:26 pm  

Thanks!
Glad for your responses. Here is a pic of the darker (walnut?) bottom. 70s (I think) label on bottom. No chance it is rosewood? That was my hope.
Btw I just copy and paste these from imgur and apologize that I don't know how to include smaller pictures. I hope to figure it out shortly. It is annoying to scroll after all.


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22/03/2014 6:04 pm  

Hmm
Could be rosewood. Try taking more pics under good natural lighting. The grain looks like walnut, but the color is confounding....


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22/03/2014 6:25 pm  

Birch
Was birch typical in the beginning? Obviously teak rosewood etc In another post were said to be quite rare. Other peer examples of my chair se to look a lot like mine. Guessing birch was pretty common? I happen to like more pronounced grains myself like an oak version I have. Unfortunately the veneer isn't lined up in the middle of the seat and has a slight asymmetry but the wood is light enough so that it doesn't look foolish.


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22/03/2014 6:29 pm  

In the meantime
Woody, will work on naturally lit photos. Here is another shot in the interim.


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22/03/2014 6:55 pm  

Yes
Birch was probably the most common veneer originally, since the plywood itself is birch. I think it looks quite nice with an aged patina. Some of the grain patterns can be really wild.


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22/03/2014 8:54 pm  

Yes
The lower lovely chair pictured has similar wood grain to my walnut LCW, or maybe not.
Yours,
Aunt Mark


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22/03/2014 10:00 pm  

About the darker dcm, I was p...
About the darker dcm, I was pretty close to buying it a while back. Checked with a few knowledgeable sources and none of them thought it was rosewood. A couple believed it's ash stained dark. It's still a pretty good looking chair but very unlikely rosewood.


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23/03/2014 4:35 pm  

bshop22
If you really want to know what's up with the dark finish on that chair, just peel off the foil HM label.


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24/03/2014 1:11 pm  

Just found out...
It had been refinished.


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24/03/2014 4:28 pm  

So
Is it ash then?


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25/03/2014 3:41 am  

FWIW, ash would be my guess.
And, if it were mine, it'd be black by now.


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