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Wood identity - cpolubin - 12-08-2020
I got this log from a friend. He didn't know what it is but he had been told by a university botanist that the trees on his property were primarily white, red, and he thinks, pin oak. This doesn't look like white or red oak that I'm familiar with. Could it be pin oak? The log was down for a few years. I'm planning to slice it up and steam it to make some shaker oval boxes.
Here's photos of the long and end grain.
RE: Wood identity - EdL - 12-08-2020
IME, pin oak looks like red oak...pretty sure it's not an oak.
Looks like basswood, How hard is it?
Ed
RE: Wood identity - Kansas City Fireslayer - 12-09-2020
Hard to tell from the pics. See if you can take a hand plane to it and get a better picture of the grain.
RE: Wood identity - MichaelMouse - 12-09-2020
(12-08-2020, 05:38 PM)EdL Wrote: IME, pin oak looks like red oak...pretty sure it's not an oak.
Looks like basswood, How hard is it?
Basswood up north is diffuse-porous, with little difference in color between early and latewood.
Absence of rays says it's not any "Oak" I know.
RE: Wood identity - FS7 - 12-09-2020
Doesn't look like any oak.
Flat sawn sycamore, maybe? The color seems to indicate basswood, sycamore, or even maple with light spalting. There aren't that many woods that are that white.
RE: Wood identity - cpolubin - 12-09-2020
Could it be spalted hickory? I've always worked with the heartwood but I understand the sapwood is much lighter. The log was only 10"-12" in diameter so I'd think it would have been mostly sapwood. Here's some better photos.
RE: Wood identity - cpolubin - 12-09-2020
Could it be spalted hickory? I've always worked with the heartwood but I understand the sapwood is much lighter. The log was only 10"-12" in diameter so I'd think it would have been mostly sapwood. Here's some better photos.
Cliff
RE: Wood identity - Scoony - 12-09-2020
Kind of looks like Hackberry
RE: Wood identity - MichaelMouse - 12-10-2020
(12-09-2020, 10:06 PM)Scoony Wrote: Kind of looks like Hackberry
Sure, why not? Don't have it around here, but it's ring-porous wood with indistinct rays, according to the data. Hackberry (woodmagazine.com) Like its cousin, elm, which it might be as well.
RE: Wood identity - Kansas City Fireslayer - 12-10-2020
I had a piece of elm once that I ram through the planer. A urine like smell was very obvious.