Wood ID

[Marty Tippin]

Need help identifying this wood. I got a truckload of it, mostly from a crotch slab that was about 14" thick by almost 48" diameter - had to cut it into smaller chunks that I could manage. Has some beautiful red staining running through it. Got a shot of the leaves if that helps with the identification...
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[Montgomery Scott]

Acer negundo

[Marty Tippin]

Box elder? Cool! Maybe I should go back and get some more...

[Prashun Patel]

'flame' box elder. That red is the onset of spalt. You're lucky. It's beautiful turning wood. Just wear nose protection and try not to think about sweaty feet when turning it.

[Marty Tippin]

Just wear nose protection and try not to think about sweaty feet when turning it.

Ok, you got me... Why do I need to wear nose protection? Hazardous sawdust from box elder?

[Prashun Patel]

Haha, sorry! It is not more dangerous than most other woods to my knowledge.

The load of flame box elder I turned stunk pretty bad, though.

[Marty Tippin]

Haha thanks... It does have an aroma to it, but I think elm stinks a whole lot more.

Any idea whether I can use DNA to dry this stuff successfully? My attempt to use it on cherry failed miserably...

[Reed Gray]

The red in box elder is not spaulting (Check out Sara Robinson, aka Dr. Spault). It is a bacteria or some thing similar. Spaulting colors are light fast, and the red in the box elder fades to brown. There is a fairly typical sour smell to the box elder. The fungus that causes spaulting is evolved for plant matter, not meat, and won't bother us. There can be a lot of stuff in the soil that is nasty for us.

http://www.northernspalting.com/robinson/

robo hippy

[Paul Hinds]

There's a fair amount of info about box elder flaming on my site

[robert baccus]

It probably shows on Paul' site that BE can have top notch figure around crotches and stumps. The stuff finished out almost looks transparent & 3D.

[Marty Tippin]

I rough turned a bowl last night from the flame box elder and you all are right - that stuff stinks! But there is some fantastic coloring and figure. Hopefully I can do it justice when I finish it...

Soaking now in DNA and will put it on the shelf to dry for a few weeks.

Wondering whether the red coloring will survive the DNA bath - time will tell, I guess.