Help identifying wood species

Re: Help identifying wood species

Peter Teubel

>Looks like red maple to me. The orange color is from the moisture bleeding out.

Re: Help identifying wood species

John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)

>Not cherry. Maple is my guess. Silver or red maple in my area.

John

definitely not maple

TD

>I am with you, I think it is black cherry

Re: definitely not maple

Roger

>Looks like Black Cherry to me also.

Roger

Re: definitely not maple

John Trant (Baltimore/WashDC)

>After looking at the bark and viewing the pic on a different computer, I want to change my vote. Black cherry

John

Always important to vote early and vote often!

Re: Help identifying wood species

Leo Van Der Loo

>Hi Sandor

the wood color and amount of sapwood does make me think of apple, bark looks more like hawthorn or maple, black cherry does not have that much sap wood compared to heartwood, not around here anyway, and the bark is more flakey, so I hold it between maple or hawthorn, so make it round and hollow it out, should be fun,

Have fun and take care

Leo V

Black Cherry

Ron in Drums PA

>Does it have a sweet smell?

Red Maple....

Sandor in Boyds, MD

>OK so I roughed out a blank using handsaws and a hatchet and wedges, Bandsawed it to a 8" diameter chunk, attached it to a faceplate and learned a few things;

First: My lathe is WAYYYY TOOO SMALLLLLL and whimpy for this kind of work (Old craftsman 9" hobby lathe mounted to a wall mounted workbench.)

Second: The walls in my shap are flimsy.

Third: Wet wood is messy.

So it looks like the wood is soft maple. I have the book "Understanding wood", and the closest match to the cross section cell structure is Red Maple, then Hard Maple. The orange color was just at the cut surface, it is white inside. I also checked The Peterson's field guide and the bark looks like the Red Maple it has pictured. I know one thing, its not Cherry.

Thanks for the help,

Sandor