Greetings.
I found this board out in a shed and have no recall where it came from. Perhaps a local auction in NE Ohio.
I am befuddled as to the type of wood it might be.
It really didn’t have much of an odor when trimming the end of the board for the photo. Very faint.
| 2 1/8″ x 7 3/8″ 7 ft length and I’m guessing tho’ the growth rings are so large that it is a hardwood as the weight is fairly hefty reminding me of two wet pressure treated 2x6s when picked up at the same time. |
Thanks
Edited 6/2/2007 3:06 pm ET by rez
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Looks like chery to me !
C.
If it nice and heavy for its size- I'd guess Cherry-
If it is lighter in weight.. It looks like a piece of Alder I have on my rack
Alder is sometimes called Western Cherry out here in California.
just putting out a guess- Dave
Will I went and weighed the thing since I'm really curious now.
It's 82 3/4 inches long, 7 1/4 in. wide and 2 1/8in. thick weighing in at 32lbs.There was a stove, a bed, and a place to sit, an infant in the house where it was born, a silk parasol, gilt-framed looking-glass, and a patent new coffee-mill nailed to an oak sapling, all told. The bargain was soon concluded, for James had in the meanwhile returned. -Thoreau's Walden
Looks a lot like cherry- can you post a shot of the edge?
I would but the edge is still roughcut.
Seems the most common concenus is cherry
so to thanks all. I appreciate the input. At six I passed him and his family on the road. One large bundle held their all — bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens — all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last. -Thoreau's Walden
Cherry.
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
rez,
The one on the right looks like ironwood or alumi-wood. The scrap cherry piece on the left is no good. You might as well ship it to me as I could use it for a recent project that I started. :-)
I admire a person who recycles. Ingenious sticker material from many sacrifices in the past?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Another vote for cherry.
After all it looks like cherry but it seems to heavy for it:
According to the dimensions and weight supplied it comes out at 44.4 lbs/cft.
Cherry is only 35 lbs/cft. (dry)C.
That dark heart wood is a dead give away.Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
I think that it is cherry.
I'm gonna go waaay out on a limb here, and say it's....
...cherry...;-)
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