second of three mystery woods

bark sided number 2

DWFII

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bark side #2...sorry 

DWFII

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Re: bark side #2...sorry

Kevin Gerstenecker

>DW, that appears to be a species of Oak, or possibly Hickory. The grain looks like Oak, but the dark heartwood and bark has me leaning toward Hickory. If it is dense, hard and heavy, my hunch would be Hickory.

Re: bark side #2...sorry

DWFII

>Kevin,

Thanks for the response on the elm. I don't know what the real name is but I think you're right. I think it will turn and finish really nicely.

Number two is definately not oak or hickory. I know what both of those look like. The wood is not coarse enough for either one.

It's not really even coarse enough to be locust unless there's some species that differ from black locust so much as to almost look like a different wood.

I also know that it's not osage orange. I've turn a bunch of that (love it!) and I thought mulberry was a bit brownish-pink...sort of more like dogwood? But I've never seen mulberry growing nor have I ever turned it...so, maybe....

I am puzzled on this one though sure would like to know what it is. Hard to sign a bowl or vase under a question mark :D

DW

In the High Desert of Central Oregon

Not mulberry

Jeff Gerardot, Indianapolis IN

>Mulberry grows like a weed around here, the bark you're showing is definitely not the mulberry I know.

Your bark looks a little like some really old plum trees I've seen. But that's just a wild guess.

Honey Locust

Brad Vietje

>A very nice, hard and heavy turning wood, sometimes has nice pink and yellow color, sometimes brown heartwood. Honey Locust has thin bark with flat plates like the photo supplied, and some varieties have nasty thorns. Black Locust has far thicker bark, like the Elm you posted but even thicker and coarser.

Safe Spinning,

Brad Vietje

Thetford, VT