I bought a small lot of wood at an auction yesterday. It was 3' long pieces of 8/4 to 16/4 cherry, maybe 8bf; plus 2 bf of teak, and piece of mystery wood. I thought it was white oak, but it seemed very heavy. I weighed and measured it, and found it was 58.6 lb/cf, which is beyond any oak. Thought maybe teak, but the teak has a hint of orange in it, and was 51 lb/cf.
Attached are photos. One has a piece of normal looking red oak next to it for color. Any ideas? The insect damage goes against it being teak.
Paid $27 for the lot. When I found out how much teak went for, I was rather upset over not buying two small lots of teak that went for a quarter of retail, but I really have no use for teak, so maybe it doesn't matter. The big sale was 4bf of "rosewood" that went for $210. Doesn't sound like a great buy to me. Looking up the price of rosewood I found out that kingwood is $100/bf now. 10 years ago I bought 8bf of it for $10/bf. There was a large skid of it, but I only did a little because I didn't know what I would do with it.