Guess the Wood - We have a Winner!!!

[Pete Jordan]

My wood guy gave me a couple of pieces of this. Can you guess what it is?

9 by 4 inches

[Nate Davey]

Is it Southern Yellow Pine???????

[David E Keller]

It's purdy wood!;)

Looks a bit like elm crossed with a rosewood... What kind of gorgeous mutant trees are you guys growing up there?:eek::D

[mike ash]

I've got a couple pieces of Locust that look very much like your bowl.....so that's my guess.

[Joe Herrmann]

Locust would be my first guess followed by mulberry.

[David Warkentin]

Sweet Gum?

[Tim Thiebaut]

I am going to say Elm as well...

[Pete Jordan]

Keep guessing.

[David DeCristoforo]

I'm gonna need to smell it. Can you post a whiff?

[Pete Jordan]

I'm gonna need to smell it. Can you post a whiff?

It smells bad.

[Bill Rogers]

TraF wood?

[robert raess]

could it be the heart of Ash?

[charlie knighton]

oak, ash, elm

fresh elm smells, the others do not

you can see the summer/winter growth rings

[Dennis Ford]

I will guess Chinaberry.

[Jeff Fagen]

Butternut.

[Curt Fuller]

Russian Olive?

[Tom Wilson66]

I'm going to guess redbud. What's the prize for the first correct guess?

[Pete Jordan]

No correct guesses yet. I'm sure the mods will come up with a great prize:)

[Nathan Hawkes]

Kentucky Coffee tree??

Or perhaps Mimosa....

[Sid Matheny]

Looks a little like cypress but never had any cypress that had a bad smell!:confused:

Sid

[Baxter Smith]

Reminded me of some wood I thought Kathy Marshal turned but after going back and checking, I don't have a clue. Native to Michigan?

[Steve Kubien]

Sure looks like red elm to me.

[Ted Calver]

Is it Mimosa?

[James Combs]

I have some wormy chestnut and except for the holes in mine the two look a lot alike. Chestnut is my guess.

[Jeff Nicol]

I believe it is Catalpa by the grain structure, and by you saying it smells! All the other guesses are my other choices, it could be some Hackberry also which smells like the catbox! So do I win?

Jeff

[Rich Aldrich]

How about Soft Maple?

[Kenny Jacobson]

Staghorn Sumac.

[michael a nelson]

kinda looks like zebra wood all of my other guesses have been said

[Bernie Weishapl]

Pete that is a beauty. I really like the form and finish. It sure does look like that Siberan Elm I just roughed.

[michael a nelson]

maybe jacaranda para or est. Indian rose wood

[michael a nelson]

or maybe black walnut

[Cody Colston]

Zebrawood?

[Jeff Nicol]

Not green enough to be Staghorn sumac, and being that big sumac does not get that big as far as I know!

Jeff

[Pete Jordan]

It was cut down in Michigan but I don't know if that means it is native. It smells like barnyard.

[Jeff Nicol]

Pete, Do you know what it is? The only thing that I know that smells like the barnyard is cottonwood so that must be what it is, but the grain and color don't look right. It looks like elm the most, but could be Red Elm as it looks a lo more like Oak or Chestnut. Siberian Elm also looks like that to along with Black locust so I am running out of Ideas for it. Could be something that I have never seen if it was planted in a yard for decoration. Maybe a bark picture to help out?

Jeff

[David DeCristoforo]

It's some Kina wood...

[Pete Jordan]

I do know what it is and it is too late to take a picture of the bark.

[Michael James]

No sir, I cannot.

[Kenny Jacobson]

The only thing that I know that smells like the barnyard is cottonwood


Ditto that!

(except for maybe Marblewood, which smells like a horse stall)

[Pete Jordan]

I'm going to guess redbud. What's the prize for the first correct guess?

You have shamed me into giving a prize:)

I have a little oak burl I could get rid of. I am going to bed so I will check in the morning to see if any has guessed. Night

[michael a nelson]

marblewood

[Marty Eargle]

Chinaberry?

[brian watts]

look like elm.....

[Alan Zenreich]

plywood.

<just holding up my end of the conversation>

[kevin nee]

How about HICKORY

[Keith E Byrd]

I vote for Catalpa

[Joe Kieve]

Looks like "stinkbark oak" to me.

[Tim Thiebaut]

Kentucky coffeetree or Hornbeam?

[Rich Aldrich]

It was cut down in Michigan but I don't know if that means it is native. It smells like barnyard.

I turned a couple of bowls from a cherry tree that was cut in my aunt's barnyard and the cherry smelled like a barnyard.

[Pete Jordan]

No winner yet.
1st clue: More than one word

[Dale Winburn]

Osage Orange

[kevin nee]

Weeping willow

[David Gilbert]

How about swamp poplar?

[Jim Underwood]

Obviously it's a very coarse ring porous wood, so that rules out close grained stuff like Cherry, Maple, or Sweetgum.

I was going to guess Mimosa or Catalpa, but since that was ruled out, I'm going to guess some kind of Ash or Hickory.

Shagbark Hickory? Black Ash?

The color of the heart wood is much like a hickory of some sort.

[Dane Fuller]

Man, I thought surely this would have been over by this morning. I'm anxious to find out.

[Jeff Nicol]

I am down to this guess "Honey Locust" the color is right the grain is right, the light sapwood looks good. So now that I have guessed just about every tree I know hopefully.........

Jeff

one more guess Pignut Hickory?

[Ken Fitzgerald]

.....I know ......I know Mr. Jordan.....it's "Freewood"....:eek::D

[Tim Thiebaut]

staghorn sumac or american chestnut

[David Hullum]

I vote Mimosa

[jay gill]

lignum vitae

[Jeff Fagen]

Say Jeff.if you have some of that Pignut Hickery laying around I'd like to turn some.:)

[Dick Wilson]

My vote is for tulip poplar.

[Pete Jordan]

Clue #2: Very heavy

[David E Keller]

hophorn ironwood?

[ray hampton]

is dogwood one or two words
sourwood

[Pete Jordan]

is dogwood one or two words
sourwood

We have a Winner!!! The tree up here is called- Lily of the Valley- or sourwood.
Congrats Ray! Would you rather have an oak burl shaped for a bowl or a hollow form? PM me your address and I will send your prize next week.

[David E Keller]

Hmmm... sourwood is one word!:confused:

Congrats on the burl, Ray!

Nice looking bowl, Pete!:D

[Jeff Nicol]

Dang I missed it!

Jeff

[Pete Jordan]

Hmmm... sourwood is one word!:confused:

Congrats on the burl, Ray!

Nice looking bowl, Pete!:D


Lily of the Valley is more than one:)

[ray hampton]

We have a Winner!!! The tree up here is called- Lily of the Valley- or sourwood.
Congrats Ray! Would you rather have an oak burl shaped for a bowl or a hollow form? PM me your address and I will send your prize next week.
the P M were sent, thanks, the bowl will cheer my wife up

[Tim Thiebaut]

the P M were sent, thanks, the bowl will cheer my wife up

Congrats Ray, and nice spontanous contest there Pete!

[David DeCristoforo]

"...sourwood is one word..."

Nope... it ain't, Doc... You're just saying it wrong. It's sour... wood. Or dog... wood. Two words either way.

[Tom Wilson66]

My last quess - 'Tiswood

[Doug Reesor]

My first guest was butternut. Unfortunately that is only 1 word.

[Michael James]

Hey, I didnt see anything about a prize in the original post!!!! That ain't right You should disqualify yourself and send everbuddy a chunk o burl! :D

[philip labre]

Looks like some English walnut I have. Either that or I'll use my best friends favorite quote when commenting on a nice piece of wood, "What is dat dare eh, piss elm?"

[Cheryl A. Prince]

I got some free wood earlier this year that stank so bad I couldn't turn it. My guess is Cotton wood.

[Fred Belknap]

A dogwood large enough to make a 9" bowl is rather large for around here. I made a bowl out of one but it was a lot smaller. It is heavy and it did a lot of distortion as it dried. The wood was nice.

[robert raess]

are we to the point of hints, such as..is it in the nut family?

[Reed Gray]

My guess would have been laburnum or common name Golden Chain. Is that the same as sour wood?

robo hippy