Wood ID

[David Delo]

Can't remember where I picked up a chunk of this wood in rough cut form but looked liked something I might want to use (15"W x 36"L x 4"D). Was looking through the stack for a piece thick enough to make a bandsaw box so I cut a piece out and planed & jointed it. It was marked KIA but I can't find any wood called Kia in any of the wood ID databases. Anyone like to take a stab at ID'ing this stuff? Kind of lightweight and easy to machine and sand. I'd consider it a open pore wood but it took tung oil very well with only 1 coat.224646224647224648

[Jim Rimmer]

The first two pics look like sycamore but the 3rd one threw me. Could be sycamore; what I've used is lightweight. The first photo looks like quartersawn sycamore.

[Danny Hamsley]

It is maple.

[David Delo]

Here's a couple pics of finished product if it helps?????224652224653224654

[Jim Foster]

Soft Maple or Birch?

[joe milana]

Sure looks like maple to me, but the "lightweight" description has me wondering . Could be soft maple, but I didn't think soft maple looked that way when quartered. I've got some rough QS sycamore that was given to me, but I've never planed any of it. The sawyer told me that domestic sycamore will turn into a pretzel in the kiln if it's not quartered.

[Brent VanFossen]

I'm with Danny. Maple. The first picture shows the ray fleck you get in the area that is quarter sawn. I have a piece in my shop that looks just like that.

[Timothy Wolf]

My first thought was also maple.

[Brian Tymchak]

The more distinct grain lines leads me to choose Maple over Sycamore.

[David Delo]

Thanks for all your imput. Thought it could be a maple but the flecking was throwing me off until the quarter sawn comment. I mentioned it was light in weight based upon doing a couple of these boxes in all walnut and a walnut/ash combo. Those woods are about 25 percent heavier than maple but even though these parts are small (4" x 4" x 6 to 8" long) I can really feel a considerable difference in weight.

[Prashun Patel]

Maple can have those flecks. I vote for that based on the color.

White Birch would be a tad darker.

The grain actually looks most like cherry to me (which can often get those flecks when QS). The color's wrong for that, though.

[Caleb Larru]

Glacier maple is what we call it around here.

[Michael Mayo]

That looks identical to a piece of Beech I cut up from a huge Beech tree the neighbors cut down but I really don't know anything about wood species/science. I will take a picture of the piece is have and post it when I get home just because it looks so much like the piece I milled for kicks.

[David Helm]

I use tons of Western Big Leaf Maple, probably what you Easterners (and Southerners) call soft maple. I have some in my shop right now that looks just like the OPs pictures. My vote is also for Maple.