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Guess the type of wood game

 
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eastern red cedar
 
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Eastern red cedar? Juniperus virginiana?
 
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Vicki and Lina, were you guessing on Heather's image, this one?

Heather Sharpe wrote:This one was hard to capture the color of in a photo, so i took two in different lighting.



Someone guessed it! Though it was not red cedar. Read through the replies and you'll see the answer.

So glad to have you play the guessing game though!

 
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Got the mill going and cut this log that's been laying here for a couple years.
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Jordan Holland wrote:Got the mill going and cut this log that's been laying here for a couple years.



This looks like a close grained hardwood to me, but the colors and branching make it look like a softwood... I dunno, maybe cypress?
 
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Lew Johnson wrote:

This looks like a close grained hardwood to me, but the colors and branching make it look like a softwood... I dunno, maybe cypress?



It is a hardwood...
 
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This one's from the same log. It should be a givaway.
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Jordan Holland wrote:This one's from the same log. It should be a givaway.



Somehow it's quite hard for me to ID that wood. It sure is pretty with a lot of figure. It's not quite as dark as I would expect from walnut. It doesn't look like any cherry I've seen. It's way too dark to be any maple I know... My experience is biased towards the woods I see a lot of, so maybe I just haven't worked with that one.
 
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I got this one: Fire wood.

Snort

Looks like a cedar, but, certainly, not from the Pacific Northwet.



John Rosseau wrote:Image #2

 
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Try this one:
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Kelly, is it Japanese Barberry? That color is wild!
 
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To both Kelly and Jordan I will put the same guess... Osage Orange!

Honestly Kelly's post looks like turmeric to me!
 
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Heather nailed it (well, all but the "it's the neighbor's . . . . " part.    ;)    This is all root stock he gave me.

It will hold that color too, unlike, for example, purple heart .



Heather Sharpe wrote:Kelly, is it Japanese Barberry? That color is wild!

 
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Another one from left field.
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is it silver maple?

Jordan Holland wrote:This one's from the same log. It should be a givaway.

 
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Clifford Gallington wrote:is it silver maple?

Jordan Holland wrote:This one's from the same log. It should be a givaway.


Not Silver Maple.
 
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Jordan, I was chopping up a bradford pear for firewood last winter and saw some colors like your milled log, but don't have any idea what the grain would look like with a clean cut like that. Any chance that was a really old specimen of bradford pear? I don't even know if they live long enough to get that big.
 
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Dietrick Klooster wrote:Jordan, I was chopping up a bradford pear for firewood last winter and saw some colors like your milled log, but don't have any idea what the grain would look like with a clean cut like that. Any chance that was a really old specimen of bradford pear? I don't even know if they live long enough to get that big.


Not Bradford Pear, either. I've never seen one that big around here. This tree was about 30" at the base, and much harder than Bradford Pear.
 
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These are from two different pieces. Both are from a cherry orchard.  I ran into quite a few of them when running pieces from a pile a friend dropped off in front of the shop through my bandsaw.  Possibilities are:

(1) the tree grew around an orchard prop, but which would be VERY uncommon in a cherry orchard (though branches often take a hit from heavy crops);

(2) this is what a graft looks like, years down the road; or [the most likely],

(3) a pruned branch, with the tree growing over the wound.
 
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This is really a good one, Jordan. I'm not very good at this, but the mystery is getting to me, so I'm going to take a wild guess. Is it sugar maple?
 
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Heather Sharpe wrote:This is really a good one, Jordan. I'm not very good at this, but the mystery is getting to me, so I'm going to take a wild guess. Is it sugar maple?



It's not a maple, though in the UK there is apparently a tree called by this same name that is actually a type of maple.
 
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Sycamore?
 
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Heather Sharpe wrote:Sycamore?


Yes! The flecks in the cross-grain from the medullary rays are the most pronounced of any North American wood, I believe. That earned it the alternate name of "American Lacewood."
 
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Is it English Ivy?
 
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As a disclaimer...i don't know what type of wood this is.  But it comes with a great story.  We live in an urban fairly crime riddled neighborhood.  One day after a large fresh load of mushroom/ leaf humus compost was delivered, my grandson(who loves playing on new 'mountains') was digging out a Hagrid hut door (Harry Potter reference) with what appeared to be a bone.  I assumed that a bone came in the load of compost.  I was telling the story at work (hospital) and said it looked a bit like a femur.  My co- workers got all worked up as they know I live in the city unlike them.  They suggested I should call the police.  I went back to garden, and the 'femur' (which in my defense was quite white as it came out of the middle of a hot compost puke that day) had been rained on and now appeared as this pic.  Glad I didn't call the police.  Co-workers will never let it go.  😂😂😂
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