Wood id?

Only thing it reminds me of is apple. Could be some sort of ornamental tree.

Black cherry?
Is it medium light weight?

+1 for cherry. Bark and heartwood both look like cherry to me

+2 on cherry.

x3 for black cherry. that nice orange color in the heartwood is what people (including myself) love about it in furniture. It can also have a "glimmer" to it, especially with a few coats of lacquer Agreed, not common at all in SE Mass. (grew up there), but definitely not uncommon in the western counties. Even grows veneer-quality logs in the right places .

I could see cherry. It looks very orange though.

The bark and color sure remind me of the black cherry here. Exposed to air, the wood just gets darker and darker. It can end up as dark as walnut over decades.

Went into a cool furniture store. Saw two pieces identical except for color (one was very light). One was cherry for sure, and I didn't know what the other might be. Guy tells me they're both cherry.

What's the difference, I say?

He says "Six months".

I can see cherry in the first grain pic and some glossy grain something in the second but I don't see cherry bark like what grows way down here in the south.

Looks yellow like some kind of pine to me, unless its just the coloring from the camera photo.
Bark looks a little different than the cherry I have. The Cherry I got tons of here, is a bit more scaly.

Way more scaly here too.

Bark looks like the wild (black) cherry I am used to seeing (Midwest). Perhaps it is the camera, but it is more orange in color than what I am used to for cherry (usually pink to brown heartwood, white to tan sapwood). Mulberry is the only wood I have cut that is that orange. The grain pattern I see in cherry is usually looser (rings further apart) than in this wood.

Cherry,

Id say cherry

I have cherry here with similar bark