Wood ID

[Rick Bailey]

My wife has owned this bowl longer than me- we been together 30 years.
She found it at a garage sale, it was painted green.
Stripped and oiled it and it looked ok.
She asked me to try and buff it.
This is the result.
Any idea the wood?

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[thomas prusak]

Redwood burl

[Ken Glass]

How about Butternut? It has a real similar look to me. Just my two cents worth.

[Reed Gray]

Well, not sure.... I have seen yew that looked like that, but usually more yellow. Could be redwood, but that stuff dents if you look hard at it. Ken, I don't think it is butternut, though the color is close. Note the wavy growth rings in your butternut. I found out that is a common limb ring pattern, makes the inside look kind of like a spider web. Could be cherry. Where was the garage sale? Some times location can be a good hint.

robo hippy

[Leo Van Der Loo]

You can’t go much by the color the wood has now, I’m sure the color has changed over time even if it was painted over at one time.

It isn’t Butternut or Hickory as the way those grow they give that wavy look to the grain.

Old Yew wood, would be much darker than this by now.

I doubt it is Redwood or Cedar as it would be full of dents, as that is very soft wood.

It was a slow grown tree to look at the close year rings.

It also looks like there are pitch spots in the wood, like Black Cherry often has, but I’m not ready to call it that, but it could be I think.

Anybody with a better ID ??

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[Brad Barnhart]

The more I look at it Leo, I'm not so sure as maybe Birdseye maple. By the growth rings, & the way they spread out, & with the "eye" look in it as well. What do ya think?

[Aaron Craven]

Isn't it a mortal sin or something to paint nice wood like that? And even worse... green?!?!?

[Ben Pierce]

I think it's cherry. I was stumped until the last photo.

[Rick Bailey]

I think I'm going with Leo on this one,
Looks like some burl in it.
With the pitch Knots and sap lines, but who knows?

What we do know is it's over 40 years old, who knows it's journey?

I'm just glad we own it now.

We think it's beautiful.

[David E Keller]

Looks like myrtle to me, but it's just a guess...

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Looks like myrtle to me, but it's just a guess...

I have never turned any Myrtle David, and you could very well be right, I could eliminate a bunch of the common wood types, but wasn’t ready to call it Cherry.

The very slow growth of the tree was something you very seldom see in Black Cherry, though not impossible.

[Prashun Patel]

cherry is my vote. the color and grain spacing seems fine to me, but I haven't seen it so prominently grained. But I'm still sticking with cherry.

[Reed Gray]

Well, I have turned a couple of tons of myrtle, and don't think that is what it is. Myrtle can have all sorts of gold, green, grey, black, and even red, but it just doesn't look like it to me. The grain patterns really look like yew to me, and the color is right. Could be cherry...

robo hippy

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Well, I have turned a couple of tons of myrtle, and don't think that is what it is. Myrtle can have all sorts of gold, green, grey, black, and even red, but it just doesn't look like it to me. The grain patterns really look like yew to me, and the color is right. Could be cherry...

robo hippy

Reed like I said before I never turned Myrtle, so I don’t have any experience with it.

I also agree that Yew has a similar color when freshly turned, but that color changes quite drastically after some time, so I pulled a couple of pictures that show the color of both newly turned Yew and then the color of the older Yew, you can see how much darker the Yew wood becomes.

It is why I don’t believe the bowl is Yew wood.

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[Rick Bailey]

Question guys,
We know it's over 40 years old.
It has a very drastic dove tail on the foot.
So with that said how early did we have chucks with dovetail jaws?