Friday What's This Material?

Here's a close up.

Rod Del

It appears to be carbon fiber composite, the tough engineering material that is very light weight. The appearance of fretting is actually part of the composite. If this were wood, I should think it ebony, or that dark dark African dense wood whose name will not be mentioned (by me). Oh yes, there it is, African Blackwood. Perhaps it is Lignum Vitae, as either will machine well on a metal lathe, however I cannot make out a grain pattern that is a match on the Wood Database. I do not think it is a mesquite, or one of the whole range of ebonies.

I still do not think is wood, simply because the appearance of fraying at the step-down on the turned piece does not seem consistent with any wood I ever turned.

Ah, it appears to be carbon fibre composite, but it isn't.
That's why I posted it, and indeed it isn't wood.
But what is it?

Just to give more info the narrow portion is about 3.5mm diameter
Del

I would have said frozen black rubber tubing, but it does not appear to be tubing at all.

Maybe it is a rubber rod frozen in liquid nitrogen and turned down to be a grommet for a narrow widget.

I do not think it is Kevlar.

PEEK 1000, or Torlon PAI? It does not look like HEXTOOL composite tooling material.

who cares about the 3.5mm diameter being that it is 0.138" (does not come out to a clean fraction of an inch that I know about).

I thought this about what it is made of rather than its intended (or unintended) use.

For all I know or care, it is arrow part, or part of a bow. Or maybe it is a guide vane, for scismoid frigalator.

It is a turned down rod made of Undiscernium.

Hot with the arrow part
I'm making some bamboo flight arrows and the turned part is glued up the hole in the middle of the bamboo to strengthen it where the bow string will push.
Did I say what it's made of though?
Nah, thought not... exit left cackling wildly
Del

Frozen goose butt rings.

Tribulator for a gunnatator.

A snackafrazzin' whoopassalator

part of a graphite fishing rod.

whippersnapper from a comboobulator

Got it! It is Undiscernium!

I think you concocted this from some cotton towels and some old plastic milk jugs.

It's only Thursday, though...

I knew that
Del

You're right. Had to look it up. Retired, you know.

Delrin AF

Nope...

Shaft of out of blue Mahoe?

Unless it is a deep purplish version of East Indian Rosewood...

If it is nothing from here it's bakelite! Order by the bunches . . .

Fiberglass Rod.

Nope, no one right yet.
Del

I would say it's a carbon-fibre crossbow bolt.

It's a new unbreakable composite graphite rod for pencils....

Melamine......Is it a plastic or composite plastic?

Depends what you mean by plastic... wood becomes plastic at over 100 degrees C.
it's not a man made chemical plastic in the accepted sense, but it does become moldable and pliable to some extent when heated. hmmm
Del

So it is one, mostly pure, element..?

I already said arrow and got a blink. I said rubber frozen down to LN2 temperature, but got no response. I think Del is dragging this out.

Burned phenolic (hence the black color) with cotton twine reinforcement.

graphene laced black stuff, with black around the edges

Not glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin.... at least I think Del said.

It is only available through Lyn-Dor Industries apparently. No match found on searches, short range, or long range scanner. It might be black kryptonite.

It is Mauna Loa hava poi poi, with hemp fiber reinforcement

It is a screwdriver handle being turned on a lathe to make an arrow reinforcement.

Bring in the reserve reinforcements, I hear the band playing El DeGuello.

In preparation for the upcoming war between the dogs and cats you are developing an arrow tip that holds, but doesn't absorb, curare....

Gabriel's?

We have a winner!

Water buffalo horn!
Del

http://www.highlandhorn.com/gunsmithing.asp

Dude! you are quatloo rich....wait how much is a quatloo again?

The exchange rate here on planet Earth is about 10 Quatloo to a grain of rice.

Del

A tight grained wood that's been altered at the molecular level to achieve superior performance characteristics. (uniform strength)

Is it an arrow shaft for a head with a hole in it?

Del already said it is not wood. Although "wunderwood" did come to mind, I did not mention it. It appears to be some sort of composite material with mysterious lighter colored fibers contained as a reinforcement. It fits into the hollow part of bamboo arrows, to keep bow string from wreaking havoc with the arrow.

I am still thinking glass fibers and something, epoxy, PE, PP, recycled nylon black, or up my noses with rubber hoses.

What Arrow??

Del, it isn't Yew now is it? Part of an old golf club once wielded by a knightly pro golfer, a real player he was.

It's pure strumpet... I don't know what that is, but have heard the term used by Brits while examining my girlfriends jewelry....which I think is some kind of stone...

The pure strumpet refers not to the jewellery but to the owner of the jewellery. I would have taken offence.

JB Weld, fashioned into a rod, then cured?

Now we are getting somewhere. It has to be some concoction Del has dreamed in yet another episode of stump the band.

Micarta....

By jove, old man, I believe you did nail it, right in the button hole.

Nope, its Horn like Randall said!

Right out of the shop of Del!

Nope, mine was turned down from off cuts from horn tips that I buy to make nocks for longbows.
I wouldn't buy turned horn when I have a lathe.
I just rough saw a strip, file one end roughly round and file a point on the other then turn it to suit.
Del

Well, I'd rather thought you sell those. I knew you had a lathe . . .

Almost resembles a rat tail file texture, one used to clear burrs from a pipe or edge of metals.

It is a piece of Water buffalo horn turned to a 3.5mm diameter.
Del

It looks like it could be a piece of ground down round file, or were we asking about the white mat under it?