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Dale Dumond
04-12-2020, 1:39 PM
This should be easy for you guys.
Turned very easily but a little stringy on the cross grain

Ray McGrath
04-12-2020, 2:23 PM
looks like oak, I'll guess red oak
Ray

Earl McLain
04-12-2020, 4:48 PM
The end grain photo looks a bit like Kentucky Coffee Tree. If the color is true.
earl

Tom Wilson66
04-12-2020, 9:46 PM
I would say that is ash, maybe black ash.
Tom

John K Jordan
04-12-2020, 10:46 PM
This should be easy for you guys.
Turned very easily but a little stringy on the cross grain

Lots of different species can look very similar. You might get lots of guesses from a photo and all of them will be wrong except for one (if you are lucky.) To eliminate some guesses, ask Google to point you to wood database wood ID and click on their wood identification guide. Read and follow section 7 on how to prepare the end grain for inspection and go from there. At the bottom of the page are instructions to send a sample to a gov lab for free ID.

allen thunem
04-13-2020, 10:27 AM
what part of the world you from? and where did you get the wood? that may narrow down possibilities.