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I picked up some logs from the side of the road and have been turning them for the last several days. I'm not exactly sure what the wood is, I'm thinking maple?
I turned this, dried it in the microwave over a couple of days, then final turned it to 3/16-1/4". It ended up drying perfectly with no cracks and just a bit of warping
It has a little spalting going on and the wood looks a lot like maple but maybe a little darker. The bark is coarse and wants to stay on the logs, any guesses as to the wood?

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Nice!

The bowl does look a little like spalted maple but the bark on the log doesn't look like the types of maple I am familiar with (though that may not mean much since none of them grow natively in the DFW area). One way to help verify a maple is with a stem with leaf buds if you have any. Trees in the maple family are one of the minority of trees that have the leaves exactly opposite each other (not to be confused with compound leaves like pecans and hickories). The majority of the other trees have alternate leaves where the next leaf up the stem is on the other side.
 

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Nice!

The bowl does look a little like spalted maple but the bark on the log doesn t look like the types of maple I am familiar with (though that may not mean much since none of them grow natively in the DFW area). One way to help verify a maple is with a stem with leaf buds if you have any. Trees in the maple family are one of the minority of trees that have the leaves exactly opposite each other (not to be confused with compound leaves like pecans and hickories). The majority of the other trees have alternate leaves where the next leaf up the stem is on the other side.

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I wish I had some leaves to go by but it was literally just five logs by the street not to far from where I live
I'm planning on leaving a bowl in their mailbox with a thank you note ;)
Thanks for the comments
 

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Beautiful bowl.

I am well known for NOT being able to identify wood. I cheat and take a small sample to my Rockler store for help!
 

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Nice work. Looks like Ash in the log pics, but the turning is way wild for plain Ash, unless that is a burl.

Whatever it is you used some "fell off the truck firewood" as well as could be expected.
 

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I found out that the wood is Sweetgum, or as we used to call them growing up, "a gumball tree" ;)
 
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