Apologies to all those attempting to respond to my “Mystery Wood” forum question, when I wasn’t able to attach photos. Hopefully, I am successful this time. It took me awhile to figure it out.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tenderfoot Bob 
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Nope, won't open for me.
Look at my latest update for photos
Possibly beech.
Thank you!
Tenderfoot Bob
Looks like white oak.
Picture from my white oak floor.
There they are! Agre with chi.
Acacia -- I have a whole stack of rounds that looks just like that.
A strong possibility. Thank you?
Perhaps.
What does the end grain section look like?
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Tanoak. Notholithocarpus densifloris.
It has that same interlocking, fine grain that beech has, but the dark, splotchy color is not consistent with most beech I have seen.
The end grain often holds the most clues. You can use Bruce Hoadley's (or other book on wood ID) to narrow it down.
That makes sense, Rclark. Beech doesn't naturalize in California with the lack of summer rains. If it was Beech, and grew in California, it would have been in a landscape somewhere. Tanoak is native to coastal CA, and in parts of the Northern Sierra foothills. Tanoak is not a true oak, but is still in Fagaceae, along with Beech, and, as best as I can tell, systematically lies somewhere between Quercus (Oak) and Fagus (Beech). I cut and use a lot of Tanoak, but don't have any experience with Beech, and have often wondered how similar Tanoak and Beech are...Could also be one of the oaks, of which there are many in CA, though few of them grow straight.
attached is a desk from tan oak, pre-finish.
Oak of some sort. Certainly not beech. Kind of doubt its white, or at least the quercus alba white oak. Looks a lot like the California black oak I have from the Yosemite area.
This looks like a picture of the tangent plane... do you have a piece of the radial plane, or the end grain?
Hmmm, here are are some mallets from Q. chrysolepis, Canyon Oak, also known as Maul Oak and Goldencup Oak, another CA native. I don't know the wood of Black Oak, but that also seems plausible...
Alright, I officially retract the guess of Tanoak. Per Jbailey, I like his call of Black Oak, but I also just shot another pic of Canyon Oak, which looks really close, and also occurs in the foothills of the Sierra.