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Do You Recognize This Wood? 



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A short time in;o tliV cilitor of Hakdwoou Record was sittinjj in 

 the oftiees of The John Dulweber Conipany, Cincinnati, O., talking 

 with B. F. Dulweber, jiresident and general manager of tlie companj', 

 and in glancing up noticeii two samples of wood on the mantelpiece 

 across the room, from which the photographs reproduced on this 

 page were taken. 



The John Dulwel>er Company handles a good many difFcrciit kinds 

 of high-grade woods, but the scribe was not familiar with the fact 

 that the company had gone into the distribution of mahogany and so 

 expressed himself. Mr. Dulweber replied with an enigmatical smile 

 and for a time did not say anything. Tlion ho confessed tliat the 

 samples were not mahogany but gum. 



This the scribe wouhi hardly believe as the samples certainly did 

 not correspond in apjicarance with any red or sap gum it had ever 

 been his privilege to see. When he so .stated Mr. Dulweber loosened 

 up a little further and said: "The samples aren't red gum, but the 

 ordinary old, ornery, black gum. ' ' 



Many a tenderfoot has been initiated into the mysteries of wood 

 craft by being assigned the task of splitting a black gum log, and 

 anyone who has enileavored to overcome the persistent ob.stinancy of 

 a bolt of black gum by means of an ax and wedge, knows that it 

 does not at least give the impression of having the qualities which 

 would make good lumber. 



It is just this ]ieculiar intertwining of the grain of black gum 

 (Nyssa sylvatica) which makes possible the beautiful figure exhibited 

 by the finished samjilcs. 



Mr. Dulweber went on further to say that he stumbled on the 

 figure by accident, spying it in a plank that was sawed and laid as 

 part of the driveway. Being interested immediately, he personally 

 supervised the sawing up of a black gum log that was then going 

 into the mill, splitting it up on different angles from the radii to 

 determine the best effect. The large figure comes from the perfectly 

 quartered section. While the intimate grain in that specimen, that 

 is, the finer details of the grain, more closely resemble the "combed 



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