Trying my hand at a Wood ID--SOLVED

[Mesquite Man]

Can you guess what it is?

 

[LeeB]

live oak

[north_bugtussel]

 :PTizwood

[Tom]

Hard to tell what kind of wood but it looks more like a crotch than a burl.  Might be squirrelly wood from a scar too but I'm favoring a crotch.

The Sapwood is real light and is a bit yellow.  I've seen camphor do that around here.

It's definitely a hard wood and the heartwood looks more like a hickory or pecan.

The damage leads me to believe that it was a yard tree or fence row tree.

I'll guess Hickory but will be back with Red Bud or Willow later.

[Texas Ranger]

mesquit

[Noble_Ma]

Butternut?

[Mesquite Man]

And the winner is..........Don Staples!  This is a portion of a mesquite root I recently cut up.  Now Don, did you really know or did you look at the properties of the photo to see the file name??!!

Sitruc

[Tom]

Don wouldn't do anything underhanded like that :D :-/ :-/

[DanG]

Nope, I'm sure he wouldn't. :  I'd never stoop to such a thing, either, but I'll probably start looking at the "properties" on all the pics, from now on. ;D

Oh, by the way, I was gonna say it was the crotch of a grafted pecan tree, but the damnphone rang and prevented me from showing my ignorance.

[Tom]

Sure does look like Pecan, doesn't it?

[Mesquite Man]

Unfortunately the computer does not do it justice.  Mesquite, this piece in particular, is MUCH prettier than pecan.  Not even close.  That would be like comparing a nice bandmill with one of them thar circular thingymajigs!

Sitruc

[DanG]

Yeah, I know whatcha mean, Curt. Them nice little bandmills just pale in comparison to a good ol' circle mill. :D

[Jeff]

Some of us already thought about that properties cheat. ;D Take a look at some of our past photo I.D. file names and you will see that most do you no good.

id3_tofool_danG.jpg   ;D

[Texas Ranger]

No, didn't look at properties of the photos, but will from now on, as will most of us

All that aside, I burn enough mesquite in a year to stock a good bar-b-que, and have used it to make knife handles, and assortment of other stuff.  for those of you interested in the stuff, beautiful grain, hard as the hubs of hell, and a pain to harvest.  Thorns, ya know.

Don't pull a picture of misquite on a board with another Texan, we do love that bar-b-que. ;D