What wood is it?

[Lee Schierer]

I need some help identifying the stained wood used in these church pieces. To me it looks like stained poplar. 271197271198271199271200271201271202

I did not take the photos so I have no first hand knowledge of the wood. I've been asked to try to duplicate the color on a new piece of work.

Lee

[Dave Zellers]

To me it looks like stained poplar.
I agree. Or some other white wood stained reddish brown. Maple?

[Mel Fulks]

Could be poplar or maple,I think maple is more likely just because it would be hard to work around all the green poplar in the quantity needed to make pews.

[Yonak Hawkins]

Another indication for maple is the places where there is a bit of splotching of stain, characteristic of maple with, maybe a cherry stain.

[Jim Rimmer]

I was thinking Ash. Pretty pronounced cathedral grain in second photo.

[Tai Fu]

Could be maple... check hardness/density. If it's soft and light its pine, if it's hard and dense, it's maple. Can't be ash because the grain is too closed to be ash. Ash generally have really big pores, but I don't know of all variant of ash so maybe there are closed grain version of ash. Also if you look at the edge it looks like some rays, that indicates maple.

[Lee Schierer]

I can't personally view or touch this wood and teh person I'm working with is not a woodworker. It is only used for the top face of the altar, not for pew bodies. I'm also thinking Maple or poplar, but I would appreciate some help determining what dyes/stains would come closest to the color in the photos.

[Todd Burch]

My call is birch plywood.

[Mel Fulks]

Todd ,for a moment I thought your post was an ad....anyway you got me to enlarge the photos ,I had not done that before. It could be plywood ,maybe even rotary cut.....birch.

[Danny Hamsley]

I think that it is poplar, too.

[Jim Andrew]

A local company used to sell poplar trim, they bleached the green away with oxalic acid.