Road Kill - Elm?

[Mark Hubl]

With all the wind we have had wood findin' around here has been ok this summer. Picked up some nasty looking grey barkless limbs a couple of weeks ago. Couldn't tell what they were and figured they might be buggy and rotten. Turns out they are hard as all get out, dry as a bone. I think the stuff is elm. Being as dry as it was it did not have a stinky smell though.

Not quite a bowl. Finished with AO.

6.25" tall x 5.5" wide

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/4835161725_0ac70106f4_b.jpg

[Dennis Ford]

I would call that shape a vase. I would call that vase a beauty! Excellent form and photos, the wood is nice too.

[bob svoboda]

Nice piece and nice wood. Not sure, but looks like you could be right about it being elm.

[Rich Aldrich]

Really nice job. I like the wood. However, if it is considered road kill, is it safe to eat out of????:eek:

[Steve Schlumpf]

Interesting form - almost a wide-mouthed vase or something. Wood looks great - both in grain and color! Thanks for sharing!

[charlie knighton]

very nice....

[Allen Neighbors]

I think it is Elm, also. I love that bead around the top! Nice job.

[Michael James]

Looks nice. Ok, I gotta ask...yes I tried to search effectively, but what the heck is AO.... Im guessing O = oil, but A ????
anybody?:confused:
mj

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking vase (is what I would call it). I love turning elm as it has some really nice color but smells like, well lets just say it isn't pleasant when green.

[Mark Hubl]

AO = Minwax Antique Oil

[David E Keller]

I like it.

FWIW, I think wet oak smells worse than wet elm, but neither of them smells too good.

[Cathy Schaewe]

FWIW, I'll take either elm or oak over sycamore - can't stand the smell of bandaids .... :p

[Mark Hubl]

Interesting form - almost a wide-mouthed vase or something. Wood looks great - both in grain and color! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Steve.

Personally I think the piece could have been a couple of inches taller, but the log was already cut. Who cut it short? Oh yeah me.

[Baxter Smith]

Very pretty piece of wood with a nice form and finish!

[Steve Kubien]

Sure looks like red elm to me.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

With all the wind we have had wood findin' around here has been ok this summer. Picked up some nasty looking grey barkless limbs a couple of weeks ago. Couldn't tell what they were and figured they might be buggy and rotten. Turns out they are hard as all get out, dry as a bone. I think the stuff is elm. Being as dry as it was it did not have a stinky smell though.

Not quite a bowl. Finished with AO.

6.25" tall x 5.5" wide

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/4835161725_0ac70106f4_b.jpg

Very nice vase from any wood, be it found wood or not, and a interesting collar on it, as for the wood being Elm, I doubt it, though I'm not saying it couldn't be.

The picture doesn't show the wood at every possible angle, like when you have it in hand and can rotate it etc., but usually the Elm has some distinct grain pattern that would show somewhere on the piece, and I can't see any in your picture.
I'll add a couple of pictures that do show the Elm grain, so you can see if there's grain like that on your piece, it is this WWWWW wwwww a wavy grain that is typical for Elm :)

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[Cody Colston]

Nice vase and a very interesting form.

I'm not sure that's Elm, either. Elm of any variety has that distinctive chevron shape to the grain lines and I don't see that in your piece.

Whatever it is, it's pretty and a nice color.

[Richard Coers]

Looks more like honey locust to me. Nice work!!!

[John Hart]

Whatever it is...I like the form. The bead around the mouth is a very nice idea. :)

[Dan Gremaud]

Mark,
Very nice vase. If it is elm like everyone suggests, then I wood think it's gray (or might be called white or piss) elm. When we use to mill elm logs, you could tell right away by the smell which one it was. Gray elm really stinks but red elm doesn't smell that bad (to me). You said you cut the log too short to make the vessel taller. Can you tell me how you oriented the blank when you cut it. I'm new to turning and am cutting my own blanks, But I can't get very tall pieces out of the logs I have using the traditional method. Which end is the outside of the log?

[Mark Hubl]

Thanks all for lookin and help with wood id. Could be locust or maybe mulberry. Here a couple pics of a chunk.

Dan, I just did this as an end grain piece. The pith is pretty much the middle of the piece.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Thanks all for lookin and help with wood id. Could be locust or maybe mulberry. Here a couple pics of a chunk.

Dan, I just did this as an end grain piece. The pith is pretty much the middle of the piece.

That certainly looks like Honey Locust to me, nice looking wood, a little hard when dry ;) :)

[Tim Leiter]

I want to go "against the grain" and say that wood looks like Oak to me. The vase looks like an "acorn". Proof, right?

[Josh Bowman]

Elm or not, I really like the grain!