Help me identify this wood

[Dennis McFern]

Greetings,

While driving around the neighborhood today, I found 2 boards measuring 14.5" wide by 43" long by 1-1/4" thick in a neighbor's trash...(OK - so call me a garbage picker!). But, I could not leave these behind.

I can't figure out what kind of wood this is. It has many attributes of oak, but the color doesn't seem right for oak. The wood is in it's natural color and hasn't been stained. The boards are not laminated.

I have attached some pics of my find. Do you guys know what the wood species is ?

What could the value be ?

cheers
den

[Doug Shepard]

Looks like mahogany to me.

[Justin Bukoski]

I'm pretty sure its khaya also known as african mahogany

[Jason Beam]

Another vote for mahogany - of some kind or another - that "bear fur" lookin' grain gives it away to me everytime.

[Mike Cutler]

So,,uhhhhh,,,,, Where do you live?;)

Looks like some type of mahohany to me. I like Justin's answer

[Justin Bukoski]

It could also be Meranti. I just looked through my stack and it looks a little like both from your pictures.

[Dixon Peer]

It's mahogany. From the pictures, it looks like genuine mahogany, or what used to be called Honduras Mahogany. I work with it a lot...

[Adam Grills]

same as above

[Dennis McFern]

Appears to be mahogany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany

thanks all
den

["Jason Belous"]

is your neighbor going through a divorce?

[Mark Engel]

It also looks like Mahogany to me.

[Jim Tobias]

I wish your neighbor was my neighbor (I think). It looks just like the honduran mahogany to me.

Jim

[Ron Jones near Indy]

Another vote for mahogany.

[Dixon Peer]

Well, I guess the consensus is Honduran Mahogany. So there you have it.

[Dave Cohen]

That will cut and machine like butter

[Dave MacArthur]

Well, after 10 threads on "what is this wood?" that I DIDN'T know, I am going to chime in also because this one I do--another mahogany.

[John Karam]

Yeah, my first thought was mahogany as well

[Jack Briggs]

Certainly looks like mahogany. There are, however a number of related species growing in Central and South America, so a definitive isn't possible without lab identification.