Thread: Timber ID assistance please

My guess would be Western Red Cedar or California Redwood.

Thanks for the input. Interesting. I suppose I can see some sense of smlilarity, however, if you were standing where I am you'd be like ....... yeah?....nah.. Yeah?.... Naaahhhh. Yeah?

This pic makes them look far more similar than they appear to the eye.

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I'd say aldav is spot on..
Quick test would be to saw or plane a piece and if it gives off the classic WRC smell then so be it.
My money however is on Cali Redwood.

I might run a bit under the drumsander, ahem, which is for sale, ahem, without the dust extractor on. That part should be easy as I sold the dust extractor yesterday.

Western Red Cedar

I dunno what you blokes are seeing, but the piece on the left is almost certainly a hardwood - softwoods don't have that pore structure. It looks an awful lot like a Toona to me. The one on the right is clearly a softwood, whether it's WRC or CR would be pretty hard to say from a pic. No need to fill your shed with sander dust, a few swipes with a hand plane usually releases enough odour from any of those woods to give you a good sniff....

Cheers,

Here are a couple of other photos. FWIW, the cut board weighs in at around 400kg/m³, I can't quite measure the waning slab as the only scales I have are for food and they only go up to 5kg, anecdotally it weighs not much more than that looking at when the scales go into overload.

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The slab smells like RC the other has no appreciable smell that I could detect, so some sort of non-ferrous wood then.