Help!! ID This Wood, Please

[Keith Starosta]

Howdy, folks! I need some help identifying this wood. At first, I thought it was walnut, until I picked it up and noticed that is was much heavier and dencer than the walnut I had. It's also a very tight grained wood. The dust it gives off is a yellowish-orange.....which led me to almost think it might be osage orange..????

Help, please!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372/2284632004_9eac3e63fc.jpg


- Keith

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Did you put anything on the sample? If so, what.

Could we see the side grain better and the end grain.

Thanks,

Bruce

[Russ Sears]

In addition to the side and end grain, where did you get it? Is it local to your area?

[Keith Starosta]

Thanks for the replies so far, guys.

In that first picture, I wiped the wood with mineral spirits, just to bring the grain out. Sorry for the confusion.

Here are a couple of more pictures. Here is the face grain, without anything applied...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2284837990_1757c9c0f2.jpg


Here is a picture of fresh end grain...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2196/2284838146_dacaf0c846.jpg


This wood was given to me by a friend, so I'm afraid I don't have too much more information about it. I would think the yellowish sawdust would be a pretty decent indication about the species. I might be wrong. It is very heavy wood, and very dense.

Thanks for your help!!

- Keith

[Ron Coleman]

Looks like Jatoba to me, brazilian cherry.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/jatoba.htm

[Peter Quinn]

Does the dust have a smell? Does the wood have a waxy/oily quality?

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Probably no help, but I have a semi trailer with a bed made of wood that looks very similar.

[Russ Sears]

That looks like American Elm to me. Very difficult to split because the grain is interlocking. In other words, it grows one way one year and the other way the next.

[Paul Girouard]

I'll second Jatoba:

Evidence :

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/July12th12.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/July12th16.jpg


Oiled with Maloof's poly /oil ,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/July13th3.jpg

Overall view,

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/PEG688/Nov520077.jpg

Very hard , heavy , almost "brittle" feeling.

[Quesne Ouaques]

Looks like Jatoba to me, brazilian cherry.

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/jatoba.htm


You took the words right out of my mouth, Ron. I just came up from the shop where I was planing a jatoba plank. Your board looks very familiar. The end grain is a dead givaway.

[Alex Shanku]

I dont think its Jatoba.

Its Cumaru. I have been using it for some time as an accent wood and the golden rays/tubes that run through the end grain are a dead give away.

[Jack Briggs]

I think I'd agree with Alex on it's being Cumaru.

[Alex Shanku]

Here is an endgrain pic of Cumaru I just took.

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Cumaru_end_grain.jpg

[Dick Strauss]

Could it be bubinga?

[Mark Singer]

Its not Shlamaca, its too dark and of course very rare~

[Edward Garrett]

Looks like Ipe to me...I built my deck out of that stuff. Hard as nails, dense and heavy....leaves a yellow-ish dust on the tools after working with it, wierd smell too.

[julie Graf]

it looks like ipe to me too. some if it has that yellowish tinge to it - and the grain looks identical. to me, ipe smells peppery - does it have a smell?

[Peter Quinn]

I'm thinking cumaru too. The fresh cuts have a distinctive "Horse Stall" smell, like a musty barnyard, its very dense and often has that yellow quality to the dust, though not always. Can you go cut a piece and give it the Sniff test.

I'd rule out jatoba and bubinga.

[Tyler Purcell]

Looks like Ipe to me...I built my deck out of that stuff. Hard as nails, dense and heavy....leaves a yellow-ish dust on the tools after working with it, wierd smell too.

I second that.