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WDH

#25
June 18, 2013, 06:53:02 PM
Basswood does not have the cinnamon color once you knock off the very outer layer of bark. 
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Okrafarmer

#26
June 18, 2013, 08:50:19 PM
No possible way it's butternut?
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#27
June 19, 2013, 05:24:12 AM
Wood's not dark enough for butternut.
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mesquite buckeye

#28
June 19, 2013, 11:21:18 AM
Quote from: SwampDonkey on June 19, 2013, 05:24:12 AM
Wood's not dark enough for butternut.

Black willow fuzzes up like that when you cut it. Just sayin' 8)

How about a nice, clean X section shot at magnified macro? That would settle it real quick like. ;D
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Okrafarmer

#29
June 19, 2013, 05:52:26 PM
Also looks a wee bit like black gum. But the bark doesn't look right.
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ancjr

#30
June 21, 2013, 11:33:33 PM
tulip poplar.   8)

bakerhardwoods

#31
June 22, 2013, 07:55:05 PM
I know it isn't sassafras or tulip poplar.  I'm pretty sure it isn't cottonwood.  I"m assuming at the moment that it is basswood, it is very soft.  But I do not know black willow at all.

What could I do with an ordinary camera to help?

mesquite buckeye

#32
June 22, 2013, 08:02:55 PM
Most digital cameras have a macro setting. This will get you close. Then use the zoom feature to get it bigger. Cut a slice of the end grain with a very sharp knife or a razor blade. Same deal with the side grain.  Take picture. Post. ;D
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WDH

#33
June 22, 2013, 08:04:13 PM
Yes, pic of sharp slice of the end grain.  Sassafras is ring porous, basswood is diffuse porous, and cottonwood is semi-diffuse porous. 
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CCC4

#34
June 22, 2013, 08:20:04 PM
WDH, Sir I am sorry but I don't think this is sassafras. Unless the color is lessened due to region perhaps? The wood just seems too light in color if you compare to our sassafras. Plus the sassafras here, when cut with a Hydro Ax, as I figure the OP's log was cut with the same...usually turns much darker at the cutting surface. Wouldn't the OP be able to notice the smell of sassafras? I mean, ya just can't hardly mistake or miss the smell....a beautiful smell IMO

And in no way do I think it's Tupelo.

Does it look like pig nut hickory or cottonwood?

Not trying to argue in any ways Sir, and I hope I have not over stepped my bounds.

SwampDonkey

#35
June 22, 2013, 08:59:52 PM
Our basswood up north don't have diamond figured bark like in the OP. I have some short logs in the barn and the bark ain't even close. However older willow will have that bark pattern and some species get quite big. We don't have any black willow that I have ever seen. I've seen black willow NW of the 'Golden Horseshoe' in Ontario and it's about as big as balm-of-gilead in girth.
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#36
June 23, 2013, 04:23:07 AM
It's Basswood
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Autocar

#37
June 25, 2013, 05:35:11 PM
I agree Basswood/American Linden .
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WDH

#38
June 25, 2013, 08:59:19 PM
No clean slice of the end grain, yet  :).
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ancjr

#39
June 25, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
It is an exact match to the bark of my sassafras, but mine has almost no sapwood.

Dodgy Loner

#40
July 04, 2013, 09:56:53 AM
The bark is a dead ringer for sassafras, but the wood...not so much. I would say a close up of cleanly sliced end grain would settle this. If its ring-porous, it will be immediately obvious.
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#41
July 07, 2013, 12:59:44 PM
Not in the sassafras camp on this one.  It looks more like basswood.  Basswood will turn color around the bark like that when its cut.  Makes good carving stock for duck decoys.

We have no cottonwood in this area, so I don't know what the logs look like.
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JoshEvans

#42
September 05, 2013, 11:01:31 PM
Thats a easy one Sassafras. 

 
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mesquite buckeye

#43
September 05, 2013, 11:18:14 PM
Looks just like the size, bark and wood of a black willow I cut down at the edge of my pond. We still need a closeup. ;D 8) 8) 8)
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SwampDonkey

#44
September 06, 2013, 07:23:15 PM
The sassafras bark pic could just as easily be ash in these parts. They start out brownish and then go gray with age.
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billporterfield

#45
September 06, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Black willow, been there, done it

S.Hyland

#46
September 17, 2013, 10:48:33 PM
I would say definitely Basswood. The Basswood up here is a dead ringer. The heartwood tends to get quite dark towards the center. 
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