I am getting down to the bottom of the firewood stack and discovered 20-30 of these. They have been drying in the desert sun for two years so they are completely dry. It’s very dense, probably on the order of walnut. The grain is fairly fine and it’s white like pine. The firewood was orange, almond and I think he said there was some Myrtle mixed in. Looking for opinions here. 
Paul

looks like oak.

 

Might be a white oak.

My first thought was white oak, but that wasn't listed in your 3 woods, I looked them up. For sure it doesn't appear to be almond, orange, or myrtle. So I'll stick with a guess it's white oak.

I'd say oak too.  Even the rough pieces look like it.  What does the end grain look like?

I'll be different and say Ash.

 

Duan

Ash

After 50 years, I've honed my wood identification skills to the point where id ing  walnut and pine is no problem. But, since it's obvious your pieces are neither, I'm at a loss.

Its either maple or oak.  Could quite possibly be cherry.  I would cut off a very small section of that sand it down really well and see what it looks like polished.

Edited March 17, 20215 yr by AndrewB

.. Looks like Quercus bicolor. 

It doesn’t have the grain pattern for ash. It’s a very fine grain pattern on the order of beech but very white. 
Paul

6 minutes ago, Masonsailor said:

It’s a very fine grain pattern on the order of beech but very white. 

 

You're on the right track,

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_bicolor

I picked up the firewood in Utah which doesn’t seem to be its habitat. It’s really nice looking wood. I’m not sure it would help me but I could actually measure the density by weighing the squared off piece. It’s very dense. It’s too bad it was chopped up into 12” pieces for firewood. The part that caught my eye in the wood stack is that there no checks in any of them. They dried perfectly intact. 
Paul

I was kind of wondering how you got it as firewood out that way. It's common around here.

SWO is the most common "White Oak" in this area and is a member of the Beech family.

Actually one of my favorite woods.

 

Here are a few pieces of ash. I work with maple and ash only for the last 20 years. Its great wood . 

The lightest piece 1/1/4" dowel l ordered from McFeeley about 10 years ago and just now unwrapped it for more spindles.

 

Arizona ash seems to be a tad lighter in color than the ash from back east where the flat pieces came from.

Another thing about white oak is it is very heavy and more likely to dry crack free than red oak. Beech also seems to dry without bad cracks but I have only run into one tree.

12 hours ago, Gerald said:

 I have only run into one tree.

Did it hurt?

I’m going to go out to the pile today and pick out the bigger pieces. It looks like it will turn very nicely. Due to all the black walnut scraps left from the media room I am going to use them to make a large segmented vessel for our entry way and that wood will make a nice contrast to the black walnut. 
Paul

I spent the weekend working on the deck of my boat. Essentially a weekend on my knees replacing teak plugs on the deck. In the process my mallet for chiseling off the plugs gave up the ghost. I decided to try out the firewood to make a mallet. Gerald you were right it is definitely white oak. Very nice wood on the lathe. 
Paul

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by Masonsailor

Great job on that mallet!  I'm going to have to try that one of these days. 

 

Kind of a crazy question....  Would it be possible to pin the tenon with brass rod and turn the brass with the wood to the final diameter maybe with carbide tools?

 

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