Wood identity?

[Zombie]

Not sure what this is.

 

[Solarguy3500]

Apple? Is some of it twisty? I have some apple that looks like that I was cutting up the other day.

 

[Zombie]

The tree is around 26ish inches in diameter, maybe 65 feet? It has been a standing dead for many years and has no bark on it. It's almost the color of red oak, but the grain doesn't look like red oak, very twisted, almost knotty. Spunky odor while burning.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Sycamore, maybe

 

[BigJ273]

Sure is pretty whatever it is

 

[NickW]

Something in the maple family, possibly box elder...?

 

[Zombie]

It really is, I made the wife a couple of candle holders out of a limb. This is what it looks like after poly.

 

[Zombie]

I love box elder, so pretty.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

My first thought when I saw the grain was Beech.

 

[Caw]

Its definitely not Box Elder. Box Elder looks a lot like red maple with sap stains but that are red when fresh cut and then turn brown with exposure. It also doesn't have that extreme sheen/shimmer. Here's a box elder I cut recently:

 

[NickW]

Its definitely not Box Elder. Box Elder looks a lot like red maple with sap stains but that are red when fresh cut and then turn brown with exposure. It also doesn't have that extreme sheen/shimmer. Here's a box elder I cut recently:

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True. I've seen branches and smaller trunks of box elder pretty clear with the shimmer, but that does look like a bigger piece which would likely have more staining & red streaks. Maybe silver maple...? Sometimes it's stained, sometimes not. Just convinced it's a maple of some sort because of that shimmer/crossbanding. No bark, no leaves, not a great pic of the grain; really just a lot of speculation. Nice looking stuff though.

 

[tadmaz]

Could be cherry with the sapwood gone.

 

[Caw]

Whatever it is it looks ready ready burn

 

[Zombie]

I'll get some better pics when I get home from work. Burning it last night I had a lot of trouble getting temps to stabilize. MC is around 17%. I don't like the way it burns at all.

 

[nrford]

Cherry

 

[Zombie]

Found a piece that still had some bark on it, Birch?

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Found a piece that still had some bark on it, Birch?

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Ha ha!! nrford is correct as usual, looks like Pin Cherry bark to me or something similar! Great work on getting this info to us so we could properly ID it!