Mystery Wood Sunken Root Rough Bowl

[Jeremy Leasure]

Someone brought me a large root section of "driftwood" brought up from the bottom of Kentucky Lake. Here is the first piece from it, I have a large section with cracks that I haven't tackled yet. Any guesses? Red Oak maybe?

Shavings

http://i.imgur.com/ezR17.jpg

Dry

http://i.imgur.com/IZppp.jpg

Wet

http://i.imgur.com/y5jYK.jpg

Close Wet

http://i.imgur.com/hzrrL.jpg

[Jim Underwood]

I don't think it's Red Oak.

With those ray flecks, it looks like Sycamore... or Beech. But the ray flecks on Beech are much more subtle, so I'm going to go with Sycamore.

How big is this bowl?

[Jeremy Leasure]

It's around 8.5"x4.75".

[Don Alexander]

looks like sycamore to me too

[Nathan Hawkes]

+1 Sycamore without a doubt.

[Peter Lamb]

What Nate said

[Jim Burr]

Sycamore or...on a hunch...euc?

[Roger Chandler]

Another vote here for sycamore.

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

It's also a really wet piece of sycamore. I'll bet you got a shower when you turned it.

[Bernie Weishapl]

I have to agree it looks like sycamore.

[Reed Gray]

If it isn't sycamore, it is London Plane, which is almost exactly the same thing. Super for bowls.

robo hippy

[Steve Vaughan]

That's a beautiful bowl!

[brian watts]

+1 Sycamore without a doubt.

+2 thinking the same

[John Shuk]

Sycamore. I'm sure of it.

[steven carter]

Got to agree with Sycamore.

[Jeremy Leasure]

Cool. The sycamore I've turned in the past didn't have this dark rosy hue and much less pronounced rays. I wonder if this is a product of submersion, it being a root section or both.

[Ron Stadler]

I have'nt yet had the chance to turn sycamore but of what I have seen from others that have this sure looks like it.

[Thomas Canfield]

It sure looks like the Sycamore I have turned. A simple oil (Walnut or Grape Seed) finish does well for a using piece and helps the grain show.