Is it Osage Orange or Locust

[Paul Maue]

I picked up a section of a log that was along the edge of a church parking lot and a residential area. The fresh cut end grain was yellowish in color and the bark stuck out in deep wide furrows. I but anchorseal on the ends and it turned a dark burgandy-reddish color after a couple of months. I turned a shallow bowl or platter out of it and just returned it the other day. I put BLO on it and this bright yellow platter is what I got.

I have no real idea what the wood is. So what is it? And will it stay this color? I liked the yellow color but I will also like it if it changes to the dark burgandy color when it had anchorseal on it.
Dimensions are 8 1/2" by 1 1/8"

I found the other half of the log that I made the platter from. It is definately not ash. And I didn't see any other trees that had the long thorns like honey locust.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really nice platter. Nice grain, form and finish. IMHO I don't think it is osage orange. The OO that I have turned here doesn't have that big grain pattern.

[Reed Gray]

My guess would be Black Locust. Most of it that I have seen is greenish or more yellow. The Osage is orange, no doubt about it. Both are hard, and both will oxidize to an amber color when exposed to air and UV light.

robo hippy

[William Bachtel]

That looks like either, more like Ash. Osage is yellow, and Locust is green, before the UV gets to it. Have you ever turned any Ash?

[steven carter]

Pretty sure that it is not Osage, as Bernie said, the grain is all wrong. I did turn some Mulberry that was a similar color that changed to a rusty brown with exposure to UV, and it has a much wider grain. A picture of the bark would be helpful. All the osage we have around here, the trunks are never round, there is usually a crevice in them sort of like what happens with cedar trees.


Steve

[kenneth walker]

Black Locust

[Jason Clark2]

I'm going to guess Honey Locust.

Jason

[Scott Lux]

Agree it's not Osage.

Where are you? There are areas where both locusts live, but usually one is predominant.

Being near a parking lot leads me to believe thornless variety of honeylocust. It is commonly used in parking islands because of its pollution tolerance. No one with any sense would allow a wild honeylocust near a car. The grain is right for honeylocust too.

Black locust is not quite as dangerous to tires, but still not something you allow near cars.

Edit: Forgot to say, That's beautiful!

[Paul Atkins]

Looks like ash of some type to me.

[Radek Kowalski]

Looks exactly like some honey locust bowls I have turned.

[Eric Kosanovich]

if it looked like this its locust.
That is vary nice by the way.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=130221

[Allen Neighbors]

I agree with Jason and Scott. I believe it's Honey Locust. Looks just like a chunk of log that my Son brought me a couple of years ago, bark, wood, and platter. Ed Karch identified it for me with a microscope.
Beautiful job on it, too, before I forget.
It's not yellow enough to be Osage (Bois d'Arc) Orange, and not enough greenish/blackstreaked tint to it to be Black Locust. There's a possibility that it could be Ash, but with that trunk, I don't think so. The bark isn't right, can't put my finger on it.

[curtis rosche]

the looks like mullberry. wide grain,,, yellowish,, but log is brown. did it have a smell when you turned it? locust and osage both have distinct smells, and so does mullbery

[Ray Chalenski]

Could be mulberry.Also could be box elder.We have plenty of them in Northern NJ. After they've been cut the heartwood on some will appear reddish.

[Hilel Salomon]

It isn't osage orange!!

Good luck,

Hilel.