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The surefire test is to cut a couple inch piece off the end of a board, put one end in a glass of water and blow hard through the other end. If it’s red oak you will blow bubbles, if it’s white you won’t. I did this to the boards in question and about 20% of the material in that order turned out to be red oak.
Wood Database is nice, but it lacks enough pictures to help show the variation in wood species due local growing conditions, and species variation. Try this site when you need to identify wood from pictures alone: HobbitHouse Wood ID site
How heavy is the wood? If it's kind of splintery and light weight it may be Phillipine, or what they used to refer to as Luan. Smoother feel after coming off the planer, Honduran or African. I don't see any pictures of anything that might be walnut. Here's a site you can look at to help ID wood species in Exotics. Wood Identification Help
If the wood was solid, the tabletop grain pattern would run in the same direction on the top and the bottom. The pic shows the grain running parallel to length on top and perpendicular to the length underneath, with no parallel grain. The base is probably plywood, as MDF or partical board would not have a grain pattern.
It would be from 1800 (may be from late 1800, they weren’t precise). i love good quality furniture but I do not have knowledge about wood, hence why I came to this forum, to learn a bit more 😄 the pictures are from the table, the sideboard and also the feet of one of the chairs and from the sideboard , the feet were removed from the ...
On the other hand, the wood was on the ground in a very damp spot, which is why there's so much spalting. So here are pictures of the planed wood, branch with bark and planed endgrain. Next time I go running there (has to be on the weekend, as I can only run after work in the week and it's too dark) I can take a camera and get some pictures of ...
Wood Identification Jump to Latest 4K views 47 replies 30 participants last post by MsDebbieP Aug 26, 2009
I'm not sure what kind of wood these are. Again, they are from Northern California. They are about 1 1/2 ft (18 in.) in diameter. I'm thinking perhaps mulberry or walnut, but I'm not sure. I've included some pictures: The top cross cut (not fresh):
characteristics gateway identification tips tricks wood Jump to Latest 4K views 12 replies 9 participants last post by leonmcd Sep 18, 2012
2328 posts · Joined 2018. #7 · Feb 17, 2020 (Edited by Moderator) Identifying the tree may be a good start, but you will still need to judge the quality of wood you find in the wild. All wood varies depending of age, moisture content, bug invasion, etc. etc. Every project requires more than choosing & sharpening the tools.