Wood id?

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Bostontom

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Feb 3, 2013
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South shore ma
Wondering if anyone can help me figure out what this is. Got it from a friend real dark rusty orange color havnt burnt any yet but its been down for over a year. Any help?
 

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Only thing it reminds me of is apple. Could be some sort of ornamental tree.
 
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 :p 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 ==c.
 
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I could see cherry. It looks very orange though.
 
Very very orange like I said it's been down for a while I don't think cherry is crazy just don't know how I ended up getting it here. I'm a carpenter by trade I've burned cherry that we get for lumber or flooring or whatever I've seen cherry but not this color and like I said it has those sparkling flecks in it. The barks falls right of in small pieces not sheets or strips
 
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.
 
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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,
 
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