what is it?

It must be wood? yellow hart?

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

poplar ?

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Think out side the box.. that’s I have been advocating all along…hint #1… it is very hard!

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

You gave it away .The out side of a box.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

boxwood? (thats a bit inside the box, i know) (i don’t think it gets to this size in under 10000 years but couldn’t resist the pan)

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Hint #2 …. it is very very heavy.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

hand stained wet MDF?

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Ok here’s my best shot
aspen, buckey,elder,goiabac,hackberry,magnolia,mulberry,obeche,osage orange,pau amerellio.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

Quartern Sawn Wood.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

A slab of some type of sedimentary rock, sliced across the layers?

-- CutNRun - So much wood, so many trails, so little time

quarter sawn rockwood

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

new guinea rosewood

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

David, close but CutNRun..wins…the slab is Sandstone. And it was cut on the Work Centre with a diamond blade mounted in a Makita 7 1/2” circular saw.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

just be careful of the dust of this kind of cutting. if you did not wet cut it, the dust is very very dangerous and thin and can produce permanent damage to the lungs very fast.

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

We wet cut and only a small cross cut at that.. Just to show the capabilities. Worked a treat.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

My guess would have been Ash. It really does look like wood.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

now you can make headstones too !
RIP
if you keep advancing at this rate,
you’ll be wearing a suit to work soon .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

That is going to make some very heavy cutting boards or Lazy Larrys.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

That is a “pre-Lazy Larry”
Rare type of wood that does whatever it is told to do by one “Larry” Degoose!
Ellen

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Hi Larry;

Very cool slab.

That tool is very cool!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

It could be Poplar or Yellowheart.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Larry, you are a man for all materials…............
It’s cool watching your posts just to see what you come up with next.

-- Eric

How about Iron Lyptus?

... Iron Bamboo?

... would you believe….

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Aw shucks… I just saw where it was solved… missed it 1st time around…
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-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"