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smokinj
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Thistle
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smokinj
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Thistle
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Silver Maple :lol: Purdy stuff though,1 or 2 of those larger pieces could be a nice desk lamp base or larger candle stick.... ;-)
smokinj
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Thistle said:
Funny thing is people mill it and try and sell products make out of it for big money....
Thistle
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It does make nice large salad or 'popcorn' bowls.Easy to turn green,rough it out,seal & let sit a few months then finish the walls down to 1/4" or so thick when dry,sand to 220/400 grit & oil.
smokinj
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Thistle
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smokinjay said:
For big 'serving' bowls, its nice to have them 3" to 4" thick,12" to 15" diameter.Individual bowls 2 -2 1/2" thick,6-7" diameter.I have one on TV stand/bookcase right now thats 3 x 11 1/2.
nrford
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homebrewz
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Make that 2 for cherry. Sure looks like it.. platy bark on the bigger pieces, smooth greyish color on the branches, and darker colored centers.
My first thought was chinese/hybrid elm? but cherry sounds good too, especially the crotch in the upper right of the top pic.
Looks just like some cherry I have. Rough bark on the bigger stuff and smooth on the smaller. Also noticed the horizontal marks on bark exactly the same as the stuff I have.
Backwoods Savage
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offroadaudio
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It's cherry on top - a few honey locust on the bottom - sounds like dessert! Cherry on top, honey on the bottom.
Wood Duck
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Something about the wood makes me think Honey Locust. Does Black Cherry have such a wide sapwood? Maybe the guy who dropped it off knew what he was talking about.
smokinj
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[quote author="hareball" date="1300230257"]ends have a pinkish color but once split looks more orange.[/quote
apple or peach.
apple or peach.
Thistle
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nrford
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Thistle said:
Where are the thorns?? Honey locust has a lot of them, I see none in these photos. If it is not cherry then it could be a fruit tree, but 25 years of buying timber and making about 60 million board ft. of lumber tells me CHERRY.
Thistle
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nrford said:
Not all Honey Locust has thorns,10% or so is thornless even in the wild.But it does look more like Cherry of some kind more that I study it.If not Black Cherry,some cultivated variety.
Honey locust doesn't have those conspicuous lenticels on the park like cherry and related species do.
FLINT said:
It sure does. Every honey locust I've seen had them. They do get less conspicuous as the tree ages, but when young, they look exactly like those in the photo.
Honestly, I just don't know what this is. It's either honey locust or cherry. From the photos provided, I'm split.
I think the bark plates look much more like HL than cherry. Look at the picture, cherry bark is in small plates of bark, not very long, while HL is more like longer strips of bark, similar to that shown here.
ETA, upon further examination everything about this screams to me honey locusts while only a few things subtly whisper to me cherry. I have to say this is definitely honey locust. Based upon the slightly wavy grain in the split, the long strips of bark vs. short plates of bark, the appearance of the new bark in the fracture areas between strips, and the color of the heartwood/sapwood.
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