Olive wood or Orange wood?

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Looking great, Merle, and it is an impressive design...you will do it justice.

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Nice and interesting carving, Joe.

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Nice one, Mike, and great details. How tall?

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Thanks, Randy, and today is fine but dropping down to 24 tonight and 17 tomorrow night. Such is winter here in TX.

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Well, Glenn, I have the Dockyard and they have done great for me. I like the handle improvement that Eddy mentions and might do that myself ...not too hard to do. I mainly do caricature carvings in the 2-4 inch high range where a lot of detail is not needed. BTW, no complaints using them.

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Nice work, Muddy, and all around nicely detailed.

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Would like to see some input also. Never noticed them before. For small stuff I use Dockyard, but these look smaller....

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Nice detail, Claude, plus utilitarian....

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I did notice some borers in the wood and some frass, but acceptable. I used to work with a lot of mesquite and often the borers were severe and the wood worthless. The bugs are winning.

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I carve wood spirits in the limbs and they don't need a lot of detail, Pallin. But, yes they can be a problem.

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Thanks, Di and very helpful information. I thought it was Orange and that is what the woman's husband said, and he is the one who cut the damaged trees down. However she thought it was olive. The conflict is what caused the post. ...

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Thanks Randy and there aren't any thorns, but it is about 9 years old. Sure a lot of branches on it though. Just looking at the bark, light gray, and the bumps made me think Orange but have no idea. I have seen some olive trees in Nevada and the bark isn't like this.

A woman and her husband...

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Thanks Brian, and suspect you are right. I was hoping someone might have an olive tree or orange tree and could rule it in or out.

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I was given some wood that is either olive or orange...according to the person who gave it to me. Here are pictures of what they said was olive wood. Online research didn't help me, so figure maybe someone here can ID it....

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Hi Wolf and welcome to a great helpful forum. I actually started with pyrography and transitioned into caricature carving, and see them as going hand in hand...augmenting each other. If there is wood, it can be burned.