A friend at church brought me couple pieces of wood yesterday. He washn't sure what kind it was. Can anyone identify it from the pics below?
Thanks
Ricc
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A friend at church brought me couple pieces of wood yesterday. He washn't sure what kind it was. Can anyone identify it from the pics below?
Thanks
Ricc
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This is probably wrong, but it bears some resemblance to a carpathian (english or european) walnut I cut down. If it is, the light sap wood will darken some, and get some dark blotches and what looks like mineral stains.
Brian
Sawdust Formation Engineer
in charge of Blade Dulling
Brian, thanks for the response. I have some english walnut bowl and spindle blanks on my storage racks. this looks a lot lighter than that stuff. the english walnut I have is more consistently brown across the whole piece. This has pretty light wood with a darker center. I was thinking hickory but I really don't know.
Thanks
Ricc
Last edited by Ricc Havens; 06-05-2018 at 2:32 PM.
Not a lot to go on. Leaves and bark would be a big help but it does look a lot like Hickory.
Section 7 of this: http://www.wood-database.com/wood-ar...ication-guide/
JKJ
Daryl, Here is a photo of the bark you suggested adding.
Ricc
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Me too! Hickory.
I have several magnifiers plus a low power stereo microscope which makes it easy.
Unfortunately, it looks like my favorite hand magnifier is no longer being offered by the same seller on Amazon. I probably bought 8-10 of these at about $13 each, now some other company wants over $30 for it.
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Any small 10x magnifier will work. Search for loupe 10x. Some are really cheap and any will work. The only other thing needed are some single-edged razor blades and some reference photos. Wood Database has these online, Hobbithouseinc has some as well. My favorite reference is R. Bruce Hoadley's book "Identifying Wood".
Without looking at the end grain a guess is just a guess. For some idea of the variation, look at the photos of candidate guesses on Hobbithouseinc.
JKJ
You can tell by the smell if it,s hickory--looks like it!
Certainly, assuming experience with the smell of hickory
What would be useful is a Scratch&Sniff book for wood smells! So many woods have distinctive smells but they are useless unless you have experience with them.
For example, I have a 8/4 plank of some kind of exotic wood with nondescript color and figure. It has a very distinctive smell when cut that I can only describe as "sweet". I can't pin down an ID with the end grain examination. That and some other pieces in my shop are currently labeled "???".
I can instantly recognize a number of species by smell alone and I'm sure someone is familiar with that one if I can just find the right person! I'm thinking of sending a piece to wood collector Eric at the Wood Database and one to the government wood ID lab.
JKJ
thanks for all the input and help!!
Ricc
Hickory smells like horse pee and sweat.