What wood is this?

[rickpmills]

What wood is this please?

 

[Brian in Texas]

Looks a lot like cherry to me.

[HoGo]

I don't see cherry, that has typical "mineral" streaks that are not present here. The color seems a bit light for cherry as well. resoluiton of the pic is too low to see any details.

[M Alpert]

I agree, we need better pics to identify that

[JacksonMaberry]

Unlikely, but high mag endgrain is the most useful. 

Looks like some sort of willow

[Randall The Restorer]

On 3/12/2025 at 4:17 PM, HoGo said:

I don't see cherry, that has typical "mineral" streaks that are not present here. The color seems a bit light for cherry as well. resoluiton of the pic is too low to see any details.

This could indeed be Black Cherry, Prunus serotina.

I am in Southern Ontario, Canada where Black Cherry trees, lumber, furniture, and instruments are common.

Over the past 55 (fifty-five) years I have seen plenty of Black Cherry boards and billets WITHOUT mineral streaks.

As for the light colour, cherry wood is famous for darkening with exposure to light and oxygen. This piece may have been varnished before that darkening took place.

https://www.wood-database.com/black-cherry/

Sincerely,

Randy O'Malley

[joerobson]

My guess is rift sawn cherry...the knots look right.

on we go,

Joe

[David Burgess]

2 hours ago, joerobson said:

My guess is rift sawn cherry...the knots look right.

on we go,

Joe

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[FiddleMkr]

This is a cherry fiddle and yours looks similar to me.

[baroquecello]

Poplar is my guess.

[HoGo]

Cherry has more crisply defined grain lines while the OP pic has them a bit fuzzy/wider. Perhaps some stain was used that makes it appear so but without closer detail we can only speculate. What we see may be even somewhat "reversed grain" effect of stain on light wood. Poplar or willow can show such wider grain lines. There are other woods that may fit.

[Marty Kasprzyk]

On 3/15/2025 at 2:44 AM, Randall The Restorer said:

This could indeed be Black Cherry, Prunus serotina.

I am in Southern Ontario, Canada where Black Cherry trees, lumber, furniture, and instruments are common.

Over the past 55 (fifty-five) years I have seen plenty of Black Cherry boards and billets WITHOUT mineral streaks.

As for the light colour, cherry wood is famous for darkening with exposure to light and oxygen. This piece may have been varnished before that darkening took place.

https://www.wood-database.com/black-cherry/

Sincerely,

Randy O'Malley

Apple, pear, and peach woods look similar but I also would would also guess it was black cherry because it is so available in big pieces.

Nice to see something different from the same old- same old curly maple.

[LCF]

I have seen cyprus that looks like that, also locally cut cedar of lebanon. Pics too blurry to tell though.