Wood ID?

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Jim R

>It could be some kind of oak. It appears to be green and if so it will have a sour smell when cut. That is a sure sign of oak. It also could be elm. But the bark resembles oak more than elm.

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MikeinCapeMay

>Now that looks like oak to me. Check the link below, tek provided this while I was trying to determine a flavor of wood. It's quite helpful.


Trees

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Michael Stafford

>I cannot see the grain well enough to be certain but some of the discoloration looks reminiscent of ambrosia maple...

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Pete Kekel - Kentucky

>My guess would be ash . . .

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Roger

>I'm with Pete, the bark, color even with the discoloration looks like white ash to me.

Roger

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Marvin ewing

>Looks like ASH to me

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Sean Troy

>I would say Ash also, Sean

I vote for ash also

John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)

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Gary Evans, Tallassee, TN

>Hi Raymond,

I think you are going to find out it is an elm. It is not dark enough for oak, as well as lacking a distinction between heart and sapwood. Also, it doesn't really show the dramatic ring pattern of ash, although the bark is similar.

If you can look closely at a smoothly cut section of the end grain with a magnifying glass, the pores will show a definite W pattern in elm. And, I bet if you look closely at the face grain to the left side of the piece that is showing the heart, you will see some of the characteristic feather pattern of elm.

One other less scientific test would be to try to split a piece. If it requires dynamite for splitting, then it is definitely an elm.

Besides, it has the same bark as one of the elms that grows here in East TN.

Gary

Duh

MikeinCapeMay

>The other day I thought oak was ash. Now I think what is apparently ash is oak. Time to keep my wood ID opinions to myself.

That's white ash !!

Leo Van Der Loo

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Re: Wood ID?

Brad Vietje

>Raymond,

I does look a lot like White Ash but ... the Ash trees around here have pretty narrow ridges in the bark -- probably still Ash. One other wood you might look into is Basswood, or American Linden. These have slightly wider, flat-top ridges in a coarse diamond pattern, while Ash usually has a tighter pattern with narrower ridges that are triangular in cross-section, not flat-topped. The ridges in your photo are sort of indistinct, though the flat top ridges shown may have had some bark worn off.

Basswood is a lot softer than Ash, and usually leaves a fuzzy ring near the cambium when cut with a chainsaw, where the wood is fibrous and soft, and doesn't cut real well.

White Ash also has a mild and pleasant smell a little like oatmeal, and a lot like oatmeal when heated in the microwave.

Come to think of it, down your way Pecan is another possibility...

Safe Spinning,

Brad Vietje

Thetford, VT

Re: Safety Side Note

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Ray,

I hope your photo doesn't imply that you cut that log on your bandsaw as it is shown in the picture. If so, that would mean that you had the wood oriented with the blade running parallel with the "direction of growth" and cutting along the rings rather than across them. That "method" will most often jam the blade gullets with long fibers and then bind and jam the blade with very dangerous results.

Mark