Can Anyone Identify These pieces ?

[Charlie_1]

Hello all ,

just thought Id throw this in for fun, can any name all 22 pieces of wood here?

[Forester21]

not without being able to pick them up and sink my teeth into them!! lol

I took a wood identification class in college - your samples are much larger than the ones we would get to ID. And there was even some white colored walnut thrown into the mix.

Theresa

[Paul S WI]

Wish I could help Charlie but I am presently looking for a good book or two on Wood Identification as I have quite a few gifted to me and am not sure what they are. I've got Yew, Ironwood, Osage Orange, Butternut identified already.

Anyone recommend a good book for wood identification?

[workin for wood]

I'll take some guesses which will be even more difficult with the blurriness of the photo. Put your wood outside on the cement and photograph them with a steady hand..take several shots to pick the most crisp photo. The outdoor lighting will help give the colors a more real to life look.

boy these are blurry photos...

1 is maybe poplar
2 looks like green mineral stained poplar
3 mahogany or brazilian cherry perhaps
4 way too washed out to even take a guess
5 mahogany again?
6 Whitewood, a swamp tree similar to cottonwood
7 cherry
8 white oak
9 butternut
10 black palm
11 mahogany
12 black walnut
13 maple
14 red oak
15 curly maple
16, 17, 18 all look like maples
19 back to the mahogany looks
20 white ash
21 Holly
22 Cherry

These are my current guesses based on the quality of the photo's. Even with clear photo's, some woods look alot like others, so it can sure be tough.

No book can guarantee the identity of a piece of wood based on a picture of a piece of wood. There are too many woods that look the same, and the wood of a tree looks different from even itself in different area's of the tree. The only true way to identify wood from wood is through DNA testing. The easiest way for a regular person to identify wood is if you have a leaf, preferably a cluster of leaves, and if you have some seeds, that insures it even more. Lots of books that can identify actual tree's.

[MacS]

I'll try the first ten...

1- zjjMXKJA
2- A7SSAGH
3 -AW[XJZ[
4 -CFDFAFXHJ
5 -IJIHGCAG
6- KJJJINXZ
7 -TRREYG
8 -VHGHXG
9 -GTAXUS
10 -HYTRING

HOW DID I DO?

[guitarman]

Are you kiddin'?

[MacS]

I Thought I Nailed The First 10.

[Dragon]

I think it was more like "glued" the first ten LOL
Diane

[Paul S WI]

For Mac wouldn't it be "Finished the first ten."

Jeff, I agree. However, I don't have easy access to DNA testing and more often than not I don't have a leaf or seed to go by.

[Gill]

An identification parade? What's the crime and is there a reward for information that might lead to a successful conviction?

Gill