What wood is this??

[Paul Chinetti]

Any help? I have no idea what this is

[Jim Rimmer]

Pine?

[Paul Chinetti]

Are there any other pictures I could take to identify it?

I am considering cutting it on edge to make a end cut table top.

[george wilson]

Looks like yellow pine,but fir could also look like that flat cut.There are several types of pine,though.

[Lee Schierer]

It looks like pine or fir plywood.

[glenn bradley]

+1 on pine or fir plywood.

[Paul Chinetti]

You guys are awesome as usual thanks for the quick replies.

[Neal Clayton]

yeah, it's a yellow pine. they get grey/black like that on the surface as rainwater washes sap out.

if you plane/sand/cut them, you'll find that distinct red/yellow color still inside.

[Peter Quinn]

Looks a lot like Douglas Fir to me, though I'm not sure if a lot of that gets shipped to Nashville? The smell when cut should give it away if it is DF.

Oh, the reasons I'm thinking Doug Fir are three fold. Look at the tight growth rings on the vertical grain side. I'm not used to seeing Yellow pine with that many growth rings spaced that tightly over 6". Next is knots, there basically aren't any except little pencil eraser size. I'm not used to seeing Eastern pine that thick without knots. Last is the color, sort of oxidized red/orange. Thats my best guess short of smelling a fresh cut.

[Michael Peet]

It looks like western red cedar to me. Cut it, the smell is pretty distinctive.

Mike

[James Waldrup]

Smacks of Southern Yellow Pine to me.

[george wilson]

Yellow pine in the 18th.C. was very tight grained. I have a Southern yellow pine blanket chest,18th.C.,that has real small grain spaces. How old is the 4X4"? Dense forest growth back then,less light per tree,and the mini ice age till 1857.

[Neal Clayton]

Looks a lot like Douglas Fir to me, though I'm not sure if a lot of that gets shipped to Nashville? The smell when cut should give it away if it is DF.

Oh, the reasons I'm thinking Doug Fir are three fold. Look at the tight growth rings on the vertical grain side. I'm not used to seeing Yellow pine with that many growth rings spaced that tightly over 6". Next is knots, there basically aren't any except little pencil eraser size. I'm not used to seeing Eastern pine that thick without knots. Last is the color, sort of oxidized red/orange. Thats my best guess short of smelling a fresh cut.

the original old growth stuff that was cut down here in the south was typically 20 or so rings per inch. second cuts, 10 or so, toward the middle of WW2, most of the old stuff was gone.

i've seen structrual beams in original buildings around new orleans cut from rare specimens with as much as 50 rings per inch.


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[Paul Chinetti]

It's Douglas Fir as confirmed by the aunt whose house was built with it (finally got ahold of her).

It's in columbia, tn and its gorgeous.