A friend gave me this plank about 10 years ago. He didn't know what it was, other than it was a tree that he had milled with his band mill. The lighting in my shop is flourescent so the colors might be off a bit. It's reddish brown with a cream colored streak. Very hard and heavy. There are some cracks that I'll have to deal with but I'm hoping to get a clear piece big enough to turn a mallet.
From what I've found on the web it looks like Kingwood, except that doesn't grow here in Southern New England. Anybody take a guess?
The endgrain view was with camera flash, the others are shop lights (flourescent).
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