Can I get a wood id, please?

[Jon Rista]

I picked this up from an arborist who lives near my parents. He has monster piles of wood and needed to get rid of them, and I grabbed a bunch. I don't know what this is, never did, he wasn't sure. It is a brown wood, that makes me kind of think of Canarywood, but it is definitely not. It has some color, different browns, some tans, even streaks or layers of a rusty red. One of the eggs is finished in a couple coats of tung oil. Bark shot included, if it helps the ID.

 

[Dean Center]

How bout walnut? There used to be lots of it around on the front range, until the thousand canker disease got to it. Usually walnut would have light sap wood, but sometimes the color of the heart wood bleeds into it.

Otherwise, it kinda looks like fruitwood from an old, irrigated tree, maybe apple, though the brown color is not typical. Plum can have some really interesting colors, like pink and purple. Not sure about brown.

 

[Paul Paukstelis]

Dogwood?

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

Otherwise, it kinda looks like fruitwood from an old, irrigated tree, maybe apple, though the brown color is not typical. Plum can have some really interesting colors, like pink and purple. Not sure about brown.

I think the plum is a good choice. Around 1994 after my mother pasted we sold the house in Nordeast Mpls and part of the cleanup we cut down the plum tree, which at that time had very little life left. The bark on that piece looks right and the live wood had the pink and purple but as the wood dried the colors faded to browns. This is one of the lamps I turned from the wood that sat on a table by a window in my brothers house in the lakes area of MN and at the time of his death in 2023 it had lost all of its color.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

It is neither walnut nor dogwood. The bark is wrong.

 

[robo hippy]

I was thinking mesquite. I don't think it grows in Colorado though.

robo hippy

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

I picked this up from an arborist who lives near my parents. He has monster piles of wood and needed to get rid of them, and I grabbed a bunch. I don't know what this is, never did, he wasn't sure. It is a brown wood, that makes me kind of think of Canarywood, but it is definitely not. It has some color, different browns, some tans, even streaks or layers of a rusty red. One of the eggs is finished in a couple coats of tung oil. Bark shot included, if it helps the ID.

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Butternut maybe??

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Wouldn’t most fruit tree wood have cracked? These have no visible cracks.

 

[Jamie Straw]

Wouldn’t most fruit tree wood have cracked? These have no visible cracks.

Plum will stay sound if it is processed quickly and properly after harvest, and the spirits are with you. With fruit trees and Madrona, I cut a section of pith out, leaving less than a half-growth-ring on either side of the pith, cut into lengths about 2" longer than diameter, and seal ends with Anchorseal, with a stripe on upper edge of facegrain for good measure. Italian Plum twists as it grows and is terribly difficult to get much yield from, but quite beautiful.

 

[Jon Rista]

I think the guy who cut it said he thought it was a fruit tree... I don't remember if he said what one.

Plum seems like an interesting possibility. I have a small plum trunk, one of three from my own plum tree, that blew down a few years ago. The wood looks different, however, the bark actually looks fairly similar... Guess it could be a different variety?

Wouldn’t most fruit tree wood have cracked? These have no visible cracks.

It actually is cracked. I have several pieces, all of them are cracked. I had to cut up the pieces to get around the cracks. Made a few blanks about 2x2" or so in size, and then the rest I cut into pen blanks, or might use as segments in some of these easter eggs I'm turning. So the eggs, have no cracks as I cut around them, but the hunks of this branch or trunk, definitely had cracks. These actually split pretty well through from the full round trunk, which is why I have just the halves, they split long before I got them. Most of this wood had sat in one of three mountainous piles for 2-3 years before I picked any of it up. I picked up a lot of wood...most of it is cracked, sadly. I figure I can find ways to use most of it working around the cracks... So far I've been largely successful with that. \

So far, seems like Plum might be the best possibility. Mine has not aged as much...maybe that's why it looks different. Yellower sapwood, heartwood is actually plum colored. Sadly the whole trunk split in a bit of a spiral, so I don't even know how usable my own trunk is. Split before I could even get to it and try to chop it up and wax the ends. But it is definitely....brighter colored, than these pieces. It might be that these pieces were four years old or so, maybe that is why the color has browned so much?