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[Karl Card]

I got some more free wood today but I have to say that I do not have any idea what it is. See 99 percent of my wood is African, Brazilian, Australian, etc. So anyway I would appreciate some info on what this is. The few leaf pics is all the leaves that were there.

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[robert raess]

My first guess is a type of elm.The grain looks like it.Some of the bark looks like it.the saw tooth of the leaves look like it but the leaves are a little wide.It could be a Dutch elm or another elm that has a wider leaf.If you could could get a shot of a nice clean leaf that might help some more.

[charlie knighton]

cracking like cherry

[Karl Card]

A friend of mine here was thinking a variation in the elm family but wasnt quite sure. Unfortunately I do not have access to any other leaves than what I have there. I am getting ready to cut the checking off of it and wax it up.

[Karl Card]

Does this picture help?
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[Ed Morgano]

Carl,
Definitely Elm. I followed a leaf identifier and it came up with Elm. Here is a one pic....
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[Karl Card]

Thank you. I have a gang load of red elm bowl blanks but needless to say they didnt quite look like this but I am not real good with domestic wood unfortunately. Now I will have some regular elm bowl blanks..

[Matt Hutchinson]

It appears to be mulberry. Mulberry is an open grained wood, yellow to yellow-green when cut fresh, very hard, and has leaves with serrated margins. It can be an interesting wood, but my experience is that it moves more than most wood during the drying process. It will age/oxidize to an orange brown, as in the picture of the ends of the logs.

Hutch

[Reed Gray]

Your second pic made me think of Mulberry also. Elm does tend to smell like the cats have been spraying on it. Not sure about Mulberry as there isn't much of it out here.

robo hippy

[Greg Ketell]

If you have an iphone/ipod there is a new app called "Leafsnap" that will identify a tree by taking a photo of a leaf. You can read more about it at leafsnap.com.

[Karl Card]

Greg that iphone app would be awesome, but I dont have an iphone yet anyway. I think the second pic made alot of difference. It is a pretty hard wood and the first pics did not show the colors like the cut piece. All in all for a free half truck load about 2 miles from my house, well, I am happy.

[Sean Hughto]

I agree. Mulberry.

[David E Keller]

Yep, mulberry it is... Pretty stuff!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Looks like the mulberry I just turned. Be prepared when turning and sanding for things to turn yellow.

[steven carter]

KaRL,

Looks like mulberry to me also. The bright yellow will turn to brown as the turning ages. BTW what did you make with the walnut I sent to you?

[Jake Helmboldt]

My first thought was Mulberry. Seeing the color...almost certainly mulberry. If any of the leaves have a deep sinus such that the leaf looks a bit like a mitten then that is a telltale for mulberry (probably white mulberry).