What wood is this?

[mrcairney]

I've been meaning to ask this for ages.

I handled my woodworkers using a bit of wood we've had for ages. Thought it might be rose (the bark is a reddish brown) but it's got a really perculiar grain. Any ideas? I was thinking that perhaps it's diseased. Poor pics below.

 

[Shewie]

It looks like cherry to me, probably wrong though

 

[mrcairney]

I was thinking a fruit or rose. However, that grain's just too weird. It's almost like there are solid, grainless deposits running through it. Hard as you like (though it was seasoned.)

 

[robin wood]

I'd go for cherry too the "perculiar grain" is spalting the first stages of rot.

 

[Baggy]

I think cherry as well

 

[mrcairney]

Ah! That might explain this then. There's evidence of spalting in the the bit I used for my hook knife.

 

[Ivan...]

No expert , but looks very much like old wild cherry , end grain may have been painted to prevent splitting during seasoning, bark colour tempers enthusiasm

 

[treadlightly]

I would say cherry too

 

[Hugo]

So It's cherry then.
That's what I was thinking after having just putting some in my garage.

 

[treelore]

Yeah it's cherry, I get to see it alot on poorly reduced or pruned cherrys. After a while it goes like paper and you can crumble it in your hand.

 

[locum76]

cherry popped straight into my head when I saw the photo. Cherry is hard and difficult to carve.