Wood identification

[tekno.mage]

Hi there,

I know it's hard to identify wood from photos - but can anyone help me with this one....

Here's the small log (the bark really does have that reddish tint to it):

Two of it on the lathe

and the shavings :lol:

I think it grew in Hampshire (ie I brought it with me when I moved to Wales along with some other bits of wood from my garage kept after helping prune some trees in a friend's garden) and I know it is not Hazel, Birch, Chestnut, Ash, Oak, Rowan or London Plane. It is a quite dense wood (a bit like Hazel - but wrong colour & grain structure.) Could it be a type of Poplar or Aspen? Any other thoughts.

tekno.mage

 

[wizer]

yes poplar was my first thought

 

[tulsk]

Hello,
Looks like Sycamore/Maple to me, but as you say- hard to be sure out of context.
John

 

[Bob Chapman]

Are those speckled bits on the end a greenish colour? I once had a piece of holly with that effect and the bark looks a little like holly, and the wood is very white like holly, so my money's on.........holly!

But with my luck on the premium bonds, no doubt it's something else.

Bob

 

[tekno.mage]

It's definitely not holly - I've got plenty of that and it's not the same - it's also completely un-split, which holly wouldn't be.

It's too hard to be sycamore or maple, from my experience of those two woods.

tekno.mage

 

[milkman]

I tried some hewing with poplar and while dense it is soft ish and light weight

 

[penman]

Could be either cherry or plum

I have some plum at the moment that looks very similar but the wood is a more orange colour.

Malcolm

 

[tekno.mage]

The cherry I've had before has been a more golden colour, although the bark is a similar colour. I've never been fortunate enough to get any plum...

If poplar is soft, I don't think that's the answer - this stuff is quite hard.

tekno.mage

 

[PowerTool]

Without the reddish tinge to the bark,I would have gone for horse chestnut - the bark looks the same texture,and the flecks of colour in the wood look very similar.
Don't think it's cherry - the prunus genus tend to have rings of distinctive almost furry-looking lesions on the bark.

Andrew

 

[dickm]

That bark definitely says "cherry" to me.

 

[Jenx]

I'd have put me money on BIRD CHERRY.
I've got one in my garden and it looks identical. :wink: 8)