Wood ID

[Ricc Havens]

Got a couple pieces of from a friend who had a couple trees lost in a recent storm. he pulled the pieces aside before the rest got cut up and hauled away by some neighbor who has a wood furnace. My friend wasn't sure if this came from the tulip poplar or sweet gum tree he lost. he had given most of it to the neighbor before I found out about it.

Turns nice and easy and throws the water while spinning! Wish I could have gotten more as some of the pieces he held aside for me were unusable due to ring shake/wind shake damage.

This only has one coat of danish oil so far. Looking for wood species so I can sign and mark it before completing the finishing process.

I posted some pics a week or so ago of the wood with the bark on it in this thread link it that helps clarify and other species I didn't mention where thrown into the mix so I was looking for better identification with the pics of the bowl itself. http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?210475-Wood-ID&highlight=

Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of the leaves. Any thoughts of whether sweet gum or tulip poplar?

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[Leo Van Der Loo]

Tulip tree wood, also called yellow Poplar, though it isn't Poplar but a Magnolia family tree

Tulip tree wood bowl and a picture of the flower from my Tulip tree.

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[Fred Belknap]

Leo you been pretty scarce for a while, good to see you are still around. Looks like tulip poplar to me to.

[Tom Wilson66]

Yellow poplar also has a greenish color on some of the wood. If you see green in the wood, it is likely yellow poplar. This will turn to a brownish color over time.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Fred between my health issues, (past-tence) moving to a new place and now some remodelling, while also helping my son build a new house up here, I haven't had much time for anything turning related, still the case, as it is all in progress.
Had to move a foot deep snow today as we got home from the hospital where LOML had to have a MRI done, life does just get in the way at times :(, but we are still kicking :D

[charlie knighton]

take care Leo, wish you and yours well

[Ricc Havens]

thanks everyone!!

Ricc

[Jim Underwood]

My first guess was Poplar, and second Magnolia.

[Dune Crane]

Grabbed a hunk of log that was downed more than a year ago. Red Oak?276501276502
Thanks.

[robert baccus]

Good luck and welcome back.

[Tom Wilson66]

Grabbed a hunk of log that was downed more than a year ago. Red Oak?276501276502
Thanks.

Might be black cherry, but definitely not oak.

[Jessica Gothie]

While it's tough to tell positively from looking at the wood, my vote goes for cherry, too.

It really does not look like red oak to me. Red oak has a much coarser grain with visibly open pores. Red oak: 276507



For comparison, here's a cherry that I did recently: 276509

And for some reason it's also showing a white oak that I can't figure out how to unattach. White oak also has pretty coarse grain and does not look like the posted bowl.

[Dune Crane]

Thanks much for the help. Seeing the turned examples (very nice btw) of Oak makes it pretty clear that what I have is not Red Oak.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Dune that does look like Honey Locust to me, or an Acacia species with that same color wood, there are a couple thousand different Acacia species