Wood ID, looks like oak but is diffuse porous

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JohnPW

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Hello everyone,

I got given a bit of scrap wood, apparently it's from a door or window frame. It's quite heavy, and looks a lot like oak, it's light brown and has prominent rays. But it's diffuse porous whereas oak is ring porous, and it's also finer grained.

End grain, 20mm across:
difuse porous end grain, 20mm across.JPG


The grain is straight, ray flecks on radial surface.
wood.JPG


This, I think, is oak. 35mm across:
oak 35mm across.JPG


The piece is actually 2 different woods glued together, 65mm across:
65mm across.JPG


Can anyone ID this wood?
 

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if the sawdust makes you 'sneezy', it's probably Iroko. It could be chestnut of course, which looks alot like oak. I once had a plank included in an order of oak. It was so porous it was virtually spongy. :)
 
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