Any idea what wood this turned leg is, I thought maybe ash but the black grain is not right? Sorry the forum is not accepting my iPhone photo format please disregard this post
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(you could try cropping the photo to reduce file size, or screenshot the photo from your phone to save it as a jpg if you haven't already tried those)
Thanks that seemed to work
Is the furniture piece possibly imported? This is a wild guess, and I'm not good at this, but possibly rubber wood? You see it a lot in the furniture they sell at Hobby Lobby, Pier 1, and other places with imported goods from India, Indonesia, etc.
I was thinking rubberwood. It's not ash. I'm pretty confident it's not a North American wood.
We’re not sure where it came from but I looked at rubber wood pics and I think you guys are right, thanks
It can be very hard to tell sometimes because factories will use common wood and use finishing techniques to cover and change the wood character.