wood identification needed

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-- Tom, Southwest Florida

Sorry, no pictures.

I can’t see anything : But my psychic guess would be Mahogany or hickory . Kidding. I often ask my girl friend ‘What kind of tree is that’ knowing she won’t know Wonder what the wood inside that ripple looks like..
believe it or not there’s a lot of varieties in Brooklyn. But the city get’s em before me . Also folks think I’m crazy when they see me carrying wood home on the subway.. Or chopping it close to a side walk.. Oh well , I just smile a lot and say hey! Good topic WOOD I.D. Oh man it’s 4:52 am Time to get up, Long day ahead… LATER WOODCHUCK’S

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sorry guys, lets try this one.

my friend thats walnut too in that bottom pick that pith in the center of the growthrings is textbook blackwalnut not to mention the grain holes and pattern, color (blue purple hues ) ...simply put mystery board will end up being American Black Walnut…..... id bet my tools on it

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I still don’t see any pictures.

You can have two trees of the same species that grow in two different locations that have a completely different mineral content in the soil, this can give them totally different color. One may be light and the other can be dark. You can even have mineral stain through a single tree when new minerals are introduced through water or some one dumping near trees, or even nails or metal put directly into the tree.

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That was a trick question right? Left and right pieces are walnut from the same tree.(worm holes match on both left and right pieces) Middle is cherry.

no trick question. these pieces were used on the backside of an existing headboard for support. one block was walnut and the other was cherry. the original bed was 25 years old and the wood was from a new england sawmill. i was commissioned to build a bedroom set for a client and he wanted me to reuse the wood from the old bed. i posted the question here in hopes of finding out why the old cherry was so much darker on the inside than the cherry i have in stock. whether or not it is cherry or walnut is not the issue anymore and since the new and old wood are so drastically different in color i decided to use all newer wood for the bed and find another use for the older cherry. thanks for the input. i learned a few things.

I see the pictures now and the center photo does look to have the open grain (pours) of walnut, a side by side close up of the two may show them to be the same, or not.

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