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Bob Nugent
08-17-2009, 5:36 PM
I bought some beautiful wood from a local guy in the North Bay and he was unsure about what kins of wood each one was. Everywhere I'm looking I'm getting different answers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The images are different angles of 3 different woods.

Don Selke
08-17-2009, 5:52 PM
The last two on the right resemble Mesquite from Arizona but not completly sure.:confused: If it is Mesquite, very hard wood and dulls tools very quickly very hard on planer blades.

Jeff Willard
08-17-2009, 8:25 PM
The ray fleck on the left edge of the 3rd photo screams white oak. The face doesn't though.

Danny Hamsley
08-18-2009, 9:52 AM
I believe that pics #1, #2, and #3 are oak. I cannot tell a whole lot from picw #4 and #5.

Pic #1 is positively oak.

Simon Dupay
08-19-2009, 5:00 AM
All are red oak.

Scott T Smith
08-19-2009, 9:03 AM
All are red oak.

+1.

Pix 2 and 3 remind me of some of the patterns that I seen when milling near a root ball.

Paul Atkins
08-19-2009, 10:54 AM
Looks like Valley Oak to me. (quercus lobata) You say North Bay - California? I made two benches out of the Hooker Oak that fell here in Chico. Hardest wood to work with.

Joe Kaufman
08-19-2009, 1:06 PM
2 & 3 look like Sycamore to me.

Joe