Help identifying wood

[jimi43]

Ok this might be an obscure one...

I found this old lump of wood in the garage which may have been part of a fruit tree fire logs delivery from when we first moved here over 20 years ago....

It was just a log but it looked interesting so I ripped it and planed it and now I need to know what it is...

Ignore the pencil lines...playing with cuts! I think it is a fruit wood...

Beautiful figuring....

I think it would make a nice screwdriver/chisel handle!

The grain is really tight:

...and it is quite heavy....

Any ideas chaps and chapesses?

Jim

 

[BradNaylor]

It looks like an acer to me. Some kind of maple or sycamore.

 

[paulm]

Looks like beech to me.

Cheers, Paul

 

[Nicholas Dalberg]

its beech alrighty

 

[Racers]

Hi,

I would say Beech as well, and a nice bit too.

Pete

 

[Russell]

I would go for beech

 

[jimi43]

Seems like it's Beech Boys!



Now...how about that London Pattern handle I was thinking about! :wink:

Whatcha think ALF?

Jim

 

[Alf]

Think it'd be very tasty. Although actually, given that it's a fairly interesting grain in itself, it'd probably look pretty spiffy as a simple carver handle too.

 

[philb88]

Beech or Plane?

 

[JoinerySolutions]

I,m sitting in my motorhome looking at a piece of cabinet door and the grain looks like that in the pic's, colour is about the same too.

The cabinetry here is Cherry.

The inner bark in the pic's looks the wrong colour for beech and the bark is wrong for a plane tree (planes also shed the outer layer of bark as cleansing system, and stay fairly smooth).

Rob, in a field, in deepest Gloucestershire. :wink: