Thread: Wood ID

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Almost impossible to tell from looking at just end grain.
Regards
John

Welcome to the forum.

Just a wild guess. It is Cherry.

dry wood.

Hi Tiggu, whatever the wood is it now looks like firewood.
By the picture you have made yourself a router jig to flatten slabs which appears to work well. However you have the grain direction of the timber set up 90 degrees out.
If you try slicing a log lengthways down the middle till it is in half (chainsaw, band saw or even axe if you don't have the others) then make another cut parallel to the first cut on each half then you will have a far more suitable piece of timber to use in your jig. Much less likely to crack like the bit you have pictured.

Welcome aboard.

Hard to tell what the timber is, especially given you are from the USA.

Originally Posted by artful bodger

Hi Tiggu, whatever the wood is it now looks like firewood.
By the picture you have made yourself a router jig to flatten slabs which appears to work well. However you have the grain direction of the timber set up 90 degrees out.
If you try slicing a log lengthways down the middle till it is in half (chainsaw, band saw or even axe if you don't have the others) then make another cut parallel to the first cut on each half then you will have a far more suitable piece of timber to use in your jig. Much less likely to crack like the bit you have pictured.

I assume he is making a coffee table or similar. Those faults/cracks are easily filled with resins then the whole lot sanded down and finished.