My monitor color sucks, but
it looks like white oak from here.

Rub a little oil on it, see what
it looks like then?

 

My monitor color sucks, but
it looks like white oak from here.

I orginally thought it was doug fir.

It didn't smell like oak, and the shavings look like a pile of Fir but, I guess I have not seen wormy Fir.

Possibility of Chestnut?

 

one more:

 

I'm with Neo, white oak is first thought.

Is there any hint to medullary rays?

Fir is out because of the open grain.

 

I'm with Neo, white oak is first thought.

Is there any hint to medullary rays?

Fir is out because of the open grain.

You mean all the pretty stuff you get when you quarter saw white oak?

No, this stuff is just wormy.

 

I'm with Neo on this one. Looks like vertical grain oak.

 

I'm with Neo on this one. Looks like vertical grain oak.

You are right about the verticle grain, I wanted it for what I was making.

I am telling you, I know what oak smells like when you cut, it burns my nose a bit, this didn't.

 

I found this about identifying Chestnut, could be. Lokk hard at the end grain one.

 

I found this about identifying Chestnut, could be. Lokk hard at the end grain one.

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I was just looking at that last picture on another site.

That is a picture of oak right?

These boards do not have that visible ray.

All I can see is the early wood pores, my eye can not see the rays.

 

Pretty sure it's white oak as well.

Isn't chestnut a little darker?

 

This is rift cut white oak, no stain, flat finish. Still the most probable choice.

 

maybe I'm out on a limb, but could it be red oak? again, you have the advantage of seeing it in person, but from the picture, I'd put money on oak of some kind. :shifty:

 

Beech?

 

The smell of reclaimed wood is often different than new lumber. Especially when just trimming the ends.

What are we trying to do here anyway?

 

Can you get a better lit, in focus shot
of the end grain?
From what you say it could be chestnut,
but I haven't seen that much quarter sawn.

 

Yeah, and take that Rotex to it and wipe it with water.

 

Looks like wormy chesnut to me, my parents front door looks identical to that.

 

 

Those are all Chestnut right?

 

white oak...looks just like a large lot of white oak 2x8 (real dim's) warehouse planking I 'salvaged'. Turned it into library shelving-but even for 30-35yr old wood it had the smell of oak when ripping/planing it down.

 

Looks like oak to me. Maybe you can take it to a lumber yard or flooring place and see what they say.

 

My first thought was white oak too but can't see any rays.Ash often looks like white oak.

 

All the trim is ash.

 

Here are some of a floor I have been sanding.

 

Had another thought since the smell thing has us stumped.

rift cut ash

 

Had another thought since the smell thing has us stumped.

rift cut ash

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I know it's not ash, all the trim in the house is though.

 

It does look kind of like old growth ash.
I've got a table and two chests made of it.
Got an old Louisville slugger you can cut
to compare the smell? :laughing:
I'd know it, but I can't describe it any
better than I can describe a color to a woman.

 

It does look kind of like old growth ash.
I've got a table and two chests made of it.
Got an old Louisville slugger you can cut
to compare the smell? :laughing:
I'd know it, but I can't describe it any
better than I can describe a color to a woman.

No baseball bat but I do have a big pile of this I can reference to:

 

I have an ash floor that I had milled from all the brown ash that my supplier has not been able to unload for years. Ash in the most poular state is nice and white. Yours could have a lot of brown in it.

This has a stain on it

Halle Berry wants to help too.:thumbup:

She is leaning towards ash.

 

I have an ash floor that I had milled from all the brown ash that my supplier has not been able to unload for years. Ash in the most poular state is nice and white. Yours could have a lot of brown in it.

This has a stain on it

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Halle Berry wants to help too.:thumbup:

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She is leaning towards ash.

Thats a damn nice looking floor Gus. We did some wainscoting out of ash a couple months ago. First time i think i've used it for anything besides hitting a baseball or replacing a sledge hammer handle. :laughing: Seemed awful hard on saw blades.

 

At first I thought red oak, until I saw the end grain. That is not oak, I am thinking hickory or elm.

 

Now that we got all these wood experts in one thread i got a question. We ran that ash wainscoting and the HO is a timber man. His dad had a saw mill and all this lumber was air dried. We always deal with kiln dried stuff and he had us space the boards out of the corner 1/2 an inch because he said it would expand more because he said it was air dried not kiln. Seemed odd to me wouldnt air dry have a higher moisture content more in line with whatever the outside humidity was?

 

That's another thing, this is old. House is 120 years old, so just thing how old this lumber is.

 

Well guys, got to go drop my oldest off at a slumber party/birthday party. I feel sorry for my friend dealing with a bunch of 4 year olds tonight!!

 

I've cut lots of hundred plus year old
lumber that still has the same smell inside.

 

I guess I have cut some that smells musty. I didn't mean to say it always has a different smell, only a possibility.

What are we doing with this pile of stock Warner?