What is it?

[Ed Kilburn]

Can anyone help identify this wood? I picked up some wood from 50+ years, lab tables. Ran a small stick of it through the jointer, and it cleaned up nice. The density is 46.44 lb/cubic foot. My guess it may be Chestnut but I'm not sure.

[J. Z. Guest]

Chestnut's way too soft to make a good lab table. I'm betting Sugar Maple or Birch.

The color's just darker due to the age.

If you could get a sharp close-up of the cut end grain, of the jointed edge grain, and of the jointed/planed face grain, that would help tons.

[Tyler Howell]

It looks like liptus but I dont think the species is that old:confused:

[Roger Everett]

Although the color seems a bit off, the end grain appearence ( on second pic. ) leads me to think Hard Maple. Also that it came from a lab table, Hard Maple.
Roger

[John Keeton]

Elm? I first thought maple, but everytime I look at the pics, it just doesn't look right. Seems the grain is too open, but hard to tell. Color isn't right for maple either.

[John Shuk]

http://www.ton.cz/images/materialy/stolyvenek/019_European_beech-.jpg

European beech?
It's a common bench material and looks similar enough.

[Mike Parzych]

The piece is pretty much quartersawn so I can't really see the flat sawn grain appearance. Got one that was flat sawn? That would help.