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Texas Persimmon 😀
 
Hello,

is it perhaps spalted beech or birch with grenadill top?

Regards from Koblenz in germany

Heinz Gerd
 
is Cory correct? i do not see any inclusions or sapwood, the picture does not show the grain off, but now that he says yew i bet he is correct 😀

once you said vine, good tip
 
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russian olive

All the russian olive I have turned is darker than what I see in this piece. It usually is brown altho I have had some that was lighter brown. Maybe it's cause I use an oil finish. Gretch
 
Uh Barbra, the answer was not confirmed when I submitted my response, don't you think that would be kind of stupid to say it was something else????
As a matter of fact the last post prior to my reply was this one by Mike Gibson "From what l read it does not grow to high, live too long and around the US it also grows as a bush often seen as a nuisance."
That is what lead me to respond with Black Mesquite.
I don't know what happened or why my reply posted when it did.
 
IRISHMIKE said:
Uh Barbra, the answer was not confirmed when I submitted my response, don't you think that would be kind of stupid to say it was something else????
As a matter of fact the last post prior to my reply was this one by Mike Gibson "From what l read it does not grow to high, live too long and around the US it also grows as a bush often seen as a nuisance."
That is what lead me to respond with Black Mesquite.
I don't know what happened or why my reply posted when it did.
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LOL Mike. Sometimes not all the messages are read before additional are posted. I apologize if you thought I was accusing you of being stupid; that was not what I was thinking.
 
What do you mean that "sometines not all the messages are read before additional are posted"???
 
Well believe me that was not the case here, I told you what the last post was when I responded.
 
Coming back to the party late, but

In the original post, it says the wood was hard and heavy -- the Russian Olive logs I have in my garage turn easier than maple and seem soft like poplar or cottonwood.

Perhaps the wood varies under different conditions so here goes - my logs were about 16" in Diameter and 4' Long - I cut them into various dimensions and have turned both end grain and side grain pieces out of it. The sap wood on it was only about 1/2" thick and the heart wood was a light chocolate color. I finished with tung oil and shellac and the sap wood ended up a yellow color(almost the color of the AAW Forum background) and the heart wood ended up a golden color (almost lighter than without the finish???). The grain in the wood seemed very porus and to me the wood seemed lighter in weight compared to maple or myrtle.

One other note - I've seen several cut Russian Olive trees in my area and notice that the heartwood tends to be a darker (almost red) color in trees whose leaves are a more brilliant green. In the trees whose leaves are more silver, the wood tends to be more of the chocolate color.
 
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