Another Wood I.D. Please

[kinverkid]

I've had this wood for many years but I don't know what it is. The pieces I had and some I still have are no more than 50mm wide by 200mm long. It turns like oak and at close inspection the grain is very similar to oak. So, my feeling is it is an oak species of some kind. Could anyone put me right?

 

[Richard_C]

Might well be brown oak - a variant rathar than a seperate species. Turned a small bowl a couple of years ago, came in a mixed blank bag, it's rather nice.

https://www.wood-database.com/brown...k is technically not,wood a deep brown color.

 

[Yojevol]

Yes, could be brown oak. When it has this stripy effect it's known as Tiger Oak.
Brian

 

[niall Y]

Sheaoak ? Just a suggestion

 

[kinverkid]

Thanks, everyone. I think I'll go with brown oak. Wish I had enough for a larger project because it really is beautiful, feature-rich timber. I've been desperately looking for a photograph of a small box I made from Sheaoak. I know it was pre-2010 because my brother that gave me the piece was still alive. He would get me all sorts of exotic off-cuts hence why I usually only have enough for small projects. Nice wood to work with not dissimilar to white oak.

 

[Yojevol]

Could be laburnum, that's rich brown. Using some at the moment.
Brian

 

[kinverkid]

Could be laburnum, that's rich brown. Using some at the moment.
Brian

Thanks Brian. It's definitely not Laburnum. I have two narrow pieces of Laburnum just waiting for me to get some inspiration. Love that chocolate brown that it eventually turns.

 

[thetyreman]

I have some tiger/brown oak and it looks identical to it

 

[Keith 66]

I turned a bowl from a chunk of common English oak from a tree that was cut down in my inlaws garden. It was just as dark brown as that, The colour is often due to fungal infection.