Help with wood identification

[Richard Andrews]

I am hoping that someone can help me identify this wood. I turned it several years ago and cannot remember the species.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

 

[robo hippy]

Looks to be pretty big growth rings. I do have some mimosa/silk tree blanks that are that reddish color and they came from down south some where. Most of what I see locally does not have that reddish color. I do not turn it any more, got a reaction to it last time I tried. Maybe an acacia of some sort.

robo hippy

 

[Richard Andrews]

Thanks for the imput

Rick Andrews

 

[John Dillon]

Does it have chatoyance (hard to tell by photo) and relatively speaking "average" weight? Not really too heavy or light (if that makes sense - LOL)

If so, it kind of looks like Koa to me.

 

[John K Jordan]

I am hoping that someone can help me identify this wood. I turned it several years ago and cannot remember the species.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Read this article, in particular, section 7, "Look at the end grain". Although the wood has a finish, you may still be able to distinguish end grain features such as early and late wood porosity distribution, tyloses, ray size. Determining whether the wood is ring porous or semi or diffuse porous, is the first step.

Wood Identification Guide | The Wood Database

www.wood-database.com

If interested in wood ID as a hobby, as I was, I recommend getting the book "Identifying Wood" by R. Bruce Hoadley.

But if all this is uninteresting or too much effort just do what I've seen often: make up a name! I got started on wood ID when I read the word "Cherry" on the bottom of a show&tell bowl at a club meeting - one look even without a magnifying lens showed it to be a ring porous wood!

JKJ