Identifying wood

[kevin nee]

I have seen posts about a University that you can send a small piece of wood to and they will send you a report on their findings. Does anyone have an address or information.
Thanks in advance, Kevin

[Mel Fulks]

I think one is Forest Products Laboratory. Computors are checking now.....

[Bruce King]

https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/centers/woodanatomy/wood_idfactsheet.php

[John K Jordan]

Read about it here: https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-identification-guide/

Section 7 tells you how to prepare samples with a razor blade to examine yourself. With that and Hoadley's book Identifying Wood I've made a bit of a hobby of it.
At the bottom under "still stumped" is info about how to get the govmt to ID your sample. Note that they will not identify the exact species. Someone sent me a sample and also sent one to the government lab. I determined it was a type of elm (elm has very distinctive wavy bands of latewood pores). The lab wrote back to her with one word: "elm".

JKJ