Brendon_t Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 When I bought my house years ago there was a fallen tree on it. I cut the branches to use as firewood and have been doing so for quite some time. I got curious and ran one small 6" diameter piece through the band saw. It looks like ash to me but I'm about an idiot when it comes to wood ID. My next door neighbor has an ash tree that stands over a hundred feet on his property so I wonder if this could be also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Interesting looking, but I'm like you, I couldn't tell you if it had a name tag on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodbutcher74 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Looks like cedar to me. The smell so be a dead give away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyG1960 Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 I don't think cedar. Cedar bark is brownish and has stringy peels, up and down the trunk. I've seen enough of it after 30 years of carving decoys from white cedar I've cut myself in local swamps.The bark doesn't look like ash to me. Ash has a uniform pattern of interlocking ridges, similar to Norway Maple. The end grain of the wood has large pores in the springwood, like oak, but without oak's wide rays The bark looks more like maple to me. If the pores on the end grain are invisible to the naked eye, that's a good possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted March 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 It definitely does not smell like cedar. It has sort of an unpleasant odor when cutting. I just took a cross cut and I can't really see any pore definition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 It's not ash..... I used to clear cut ash on my property in East Tennessee, for sale and for firewood... That's not the bark of an ash tree! It looks like a softwood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarlywoodguy Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Sycamore? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarlywoodguy Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 How does it burn? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 All kinds of trees grow is SoCal that don't grow in the rest of the country. Most of us are familiar with your typical north american deciduous hardwoods. You guys get some tropical, non-native and warm weather stuff we don't. For example, Bay Laurel (aka myrtle) is a west coast species that doesn't grow in the rest of the country. Your wood kind of looks like that. http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/laurel,%20california.htm http://www.finewoodworking.com/membership/fwnpdf/011200074.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cancelleri Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Does it smell like vinegar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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