[Woodworkers] Identify species...

[Brian Johnson]

Hey Folks -

This a reply to all the other replies, not just Gary's.

I'm pretty sure it's not hickory, the bark is wrong - though I suppose 
it could be a species of hickory I'm not familiar with.

I had not considered ash as he said the tree was cut from his property 
which had oak and hard maple. My limited experience with ash has always 
been that it's a super light colored wood - this is a bit darker than 
what I thought ash was, but every tree is different.

You folks were supposed to answer my question, not add more options!  lol.

-Brian

gcw804 at aol.com wrote on 12/11/19 7:47 PM:
> Brian,
> 
> I'm going to guess that maybe it's either Hickory or maybe Maple. I've 
> never seen Ash with that much brown in it, but that doesn't  mean 
> anything. lol.
> 
> If you find out, please let us know
> 
> 
> Gary Williams
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Johnson via Woodworkers <woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org>
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> Cc: Brian Johnson <serversage at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wed, Dec 11, 2019 1:24 pm
> Subject: [Woodworkers] Identify species...
> 
> Hey Folks -
> 
> I'm finally back in the states after 5 years living abroad, and starting 
> to get my garage shop set back up. Part of that is acquiring some 
> lumber. Yesterday I picked up 14 boards, all 4/4 x 100" x 6" or 8", 
> species unknown. I've attached two photos, one of a board that still had 
> a bit of bark on it, and another showing the grain. Based on that I'm 
> thinking it's oak, but the gentleman I picked it up from thought it 
> might be hard maple. He's had it sitting in his garage for over 10 
> years, so the memory is likely fuzzy.
> 
> Normally I wouldn't care, but I'm going to be trading some with my uncle 
> and would like to be able to tell him what it is. So, any ideas?
> 
> Thanks Folks!
> 
> -Brian
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