Wood ID help

[Osric]

I found a (relatively) dry piece of the out lumber I purchased recently and was hoping wiser heads than mine can figure out what it is.  Here are some pictures...I rubbed a little water in it on a couple of the pictures to help bring out the grain and color.  Any ideas?

[Tom]

Looks a bit like flat sawed sycamore.

[Osric]

I always figured sycamore was whiter for some reason.  It has a reddish tint?

[Tom]

Sycamore is known for its elegant pink shade.  Yes a lot of it can be white.

(I've been known to be wrong too.) :D

[woodbeard]

Either that, or maybe beech.
Can you get a pic of the edge or the ends?
Is it hard, soft, heavy, light, etc.  ???

[Greg Cook]

It does resemble Sycamore.  See any water running out of it? :D

Greg

[WDH]

I am in the sycamore camp.  Does it have very large distinct rays?

[SwampDonkey]

I'd have to side with sycamore. The wood is too dark for our white hardwoods (S maple, beech, Y birch).

[Osric]

Sycamore does make sense.  I'm in SE Ohio, so we have scads of them popping up all over the place. 

[ARKANSAWYER]

 
  Naw! that's not sickymore.  DanG thing is flat.  Looks a tad like coffee tree.

[schmism]

im in the sycamore camp.

but my close second guess would be pear.  (bradford?)

[Dodgy Loner]

A close-up of the end grain is needed for a positive ID.  But my first guess would be sycamore, possibly beech.

[Greg]

Color sure looks Beech-y.

But hard to tell from just pics.

Haven't seen enough sycamore to make an educated guess on that...

Greg

[SwampDonkey]

Not close-up enough in your board pictures, but beech would have medium pore streaks (short dark lines) not course like oak on flat sawn surfaces. And unaided eye viewable rays, but not as broad as oak.



Flat sawn surface of beech, showing pores coming to the surface.

[oakiemac]

My guess would be elm or Sycamore.

[Greg]

Not close-up enough in your board pictures, but beech would have medium pore streaks (short dark lines) not course like oak on flat sawn surfaces. And unaided eye viewable rays, but not as broad as oak.



Flat sawn surface, showing pores coming to the surface.

Yep, very distinctive rays. Nice reference pic.

I take it back, not beech. I don't see any hint of that in the photo.

Greg

[WDH]

It doesn't have the beech ring pattern.  Coffeetree is ring porous, so that does not fit.  A dead ringer for sycamore.