Lets see how good you are... What kind of wood is this ???

[Kbeitz]

I gotta make something with this... 
It's not the light... The wood really is yellow.



 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Persimmon or Magnolia maybe?

Do you have a leaf?

[Dave Shepard]

Maclura pomifera.

[NWP]

Mulberry?

[Texas Ranger]

What Dave said :P

[hackberry jake]

Maclura pomifera.

Or Osage orange as its commonly called. That's my guess as well.

[beenthere]

No question, what Dave said.   8)

[isawlogs]

Bois d'arc. 
:P

[gfadvm]

Mulberry or hedge would be my guess.

[Banjo picker]

it would be bodock if it were in Mississippi.  Banjo

[WDH]

Could also be redbud. 

[Dan_Shade]

Black Locust

[Kbeitz]

No one got it yet...

[Jeff]

Sumac

[thecfarm]

Butternut

[isawlogs]

yellow locust.... Sumac is a good guess too!

[Magicman]

Obviously it is American Yellowwood, aka, Gopherwood.   ;D

[Banjo picker]

uncle.  banjo

[Dodgy Loner]

Osage-orange is the only wood I know of with wood that color and such a narrow sapwood band. Eastern redbud is the next closest possibility, but the wood tends not to have the orangish cast that you see in that picture. Same with mulberry and black locust. They lean more towards a pure yellow or greenish yellow than orange-yellow. I dunno. If it ain't osage, I'm stumped.

[Jeff]

GOOGLE SUMAC

Notice the width of his sample.  I think I'm correct. ;)  Pete and I have used it for making strikers on Turkey Calls. Looks correct to me.

[Dodgy Loner]

You could very well be right, Jeff. I've sawed up some sumac for wood samples before, and it was much more greenish than orange, but the pictures in your link definitely bear a strong resemblance to the mystery wood.

[Banjo picker]

That looks like it.  Sumac dont get very big here, at least that i have seen.  Banjo

[Kbeitz]

No one got it yet....
This will probley give it away but some days it looks like a haze above the tree....

[Dodgy Loner]

American smoketree. Cotinus obovatus. Or possibly European smoketree, Cotinus coggyria.

I really shoulda known that. I used to have a sample of it.  :-\

[Magicman]

Very interesting, and I notice that it is closely related to Sumac.  I had the "American" part right, but it was Chittamwood instead of Gopherwood.   :