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   rob_ss | Nov 10, 2023 11:26pm | #1

   When asking for wood identification support, a picture of only one part of the timber is seldom helpful.
   Please mention where you live, including region if in a large country such as the USA as this is materially important to the options available and also for the same reason, how you came by it - was it a pallet? was it furniture? From some air dried stuff in a barn or a garage sale? Did whoever you got it from say what they thought it might be? Does it have a particular odour? Is it heavy/dense? Does it sink or float in water? Is it hard as nails or does it dent easily? All of this makes identification easier.
   Also please show a clean planed face grain and clean end-grain shot. Most of us don't use microscopes to look at end grain so are less familiar with how wood looks that way.
   When asking for multiple identifications, some means of reference to the picture is useful.
   I am sure the close-ups help the real experts, and I wish you luck, but most of us here are just plain old woodworkers.
   The best I can do based on the information supplied is 'wood', probably all hardwood. Probably not oak or walnut.

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   user-7628405 | Nov 11, 2023 12:14am | #2

   Mostly old red oak

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   john_c2 | Nov 11, 2023 04:41am | #5

   Nope. Only one of those could be red oak, because only one of them is ring porous. The others are diffuse porous. Not red oak.

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   user-7628405 | Nov 11, 2023 12:15am | #3

   Rob ss can chill out.

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   john_c2 | Nov 11, 2023 04:38am | #4

   Rob was very helpful, and 100% spot on.

   I read the post and decided to pass. There is far too little information to make an educated guess. And I didn't have the spare time to explain why. Rob should be thanked.

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   esch5995 | Nov 12, 2023 12:26am | #7

   Second that. There simply isn't enough info from end grain alone and Rob_SS explained it perfectly.

   User_7628405 your lack of knowledge is evident by you claiming it was red oak when it obviously is not so maybe you should chill out. It's okay to be wrong but to diss a member who obviously has more experience and knowledge than you is not acceptable.

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   lat_axe | Nov 12, 2023 07:13am | #8

   Just so.

   I offer no opinion about what the woods shown may be but instead would like to go-orf on a little aside .....

   Posts of the kind from RobSS are, I feel, emblematic of how all posts on a forum such as this should be structured - helpful, to the point, explicit, full and unambiguous, providing value in forwarding a useful and meaningful subsequent discussion that will hopefully result in the spread of valid understandings and knowledge to all readers and participants.

   Personally I abhor the post-modern trend of what might best be described as TwatterX-style posts: short little inchoate splodges of few words posted to gain attention by means of a semi-aggressive bald opinion of no worth whatsoever other than as one o' them empty gestures that the poster somehow thinks validates their otherwise meaningless and unnoticed existenz. Phew!

   But hang on! Maybe this post itself is of that very ilk!! :-)

   Still, I will cry out that short, pithy, content-free posts that offer either nothing of any use at all, a bald and not-justified or explained opinion, or even one patently false in its import ..... are tedious and taking up forum space that might otherwise be filled with nice RobSS-style posts.

   So there.

   Lataxe, in Sunday morning have-a-rant-about-nowt-much mode.

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   Talmedge | Nov 13, 2023 04:13pm | #11

   Hands up if you have a hard time not zoning out reading lat_axe's posts.

   Sorry, but there is room for short, pithy, and to the point.

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   lat_axe | Nov 14, 2023 10:17am | #12

   Talmedge: Sorry, but there is room for short, pithy, and to the point.

   Lataxe: No there isn't.

   Talmedge: Is.

   Lataxe: Isn't.

   Talmedge: .

   Lataxe: :-)

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   rob_ss | Nov 15, 2023 05:03am | #13

   :-) It's probably a good job the forum limits the depth of replies!

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   gulfstar | Nov 11, 2023 09:17am | #6

   Very few if any woodworker looks at wood with a magnifier, you would be better served by showing planed flat surfaces.

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   [email protected] | Nov 12, 2023 02:52pm | #9

   The Wood Database has magnified end-grain photos of most of their species but you'll need to narrow things down a bit.
   You have, what looks like, 5 different species. I would take them one at a time

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   stantheman | Nov 13, 2023 03:16pm | #10

   In defense of the OP, I think just about every time someone asks a wood ID question on here and other forums, they are told to look at or show photos of the end grain, in addition to flat views. So I think it was appropriate to show these in the post.