wood ID needed

[Mike Gager]

found some wood in my garage and trying to find out what it is. this is just a piece that was broken off that i ran through the jointer to see what the grain looked like

its really kind of light weight if that helps at all

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anyone have any idea?

[Dick Strauss]

Looks like soft maple to me...

[Ed Sallee]

Looks like Chestnut....

[Danny Hamsley]

Definitely soft maple. That ray fleck is distinctive.

[Dewey Torres]

Flat sawn Maple for sure

[Mike Gager]

maple was my first guess but it seemed really light

anyways thanks guys!

[Dan Hahr]

Looks like cherry to me. The end grain cut is too rough to really look like cherry though. I bet that if it were smooth it would look more like cherry.

If it smells sweet and is lightish pink, its probably cherry. It has the same ray fleck as maple, perhaps more distinct.

Dan

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Looks sort of like sycamore to me. That would explain the light weight too.

[Jim Benante]

I vote maple.

[Kevin Barnett]

Not sycamore. One of your pictures looks pinkish which would look like cherry. The light weight indicates something like silver maple, which is generally not pinkish. The end cut looks like neither.

[Peter Quinn]

You said really light weight? Have you considered spruce? Spruce has ray fleck like that and similar grain. Looks more like soft maple to me in the first pic but I don't think of even soft maple as being spectacularly light. How hard is it? Spruce will take an easy thumb nail impression, even soft maple will not yield easily to finger nail pressure.

[David DeCristoforo]

Soft maple and alder can have a very similar appearance and similar color. Your sample could be either one but I'm betting alder because, as several others have pointed out soft maple is still pretty heavy whereas alder tends to be much lighter. Your sample is a little "whitish" for alder but it does run into that color range and the weight makes me lean to alder.