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[bigsteel15]

Might be too easy for some but I'd never seen this in anything resembling useable lumber form before. Should make a couple of striking pens.
I'm not telling unless someone gets it.
Guesses.

Oh, this is 2 different chunks of the same kind of wood. 2 pictures of each piece.

Also scored some Holly.

[DonHo]

looks like cedar to me.
DonHo

[WoodButcher26]

Too easy. Aromatic cedar. See it all the time around here. Friend of mine even brought me a 12 foot log from his cabin in Kentucky.

Too soft for pens, IMO--dents with a fingernail. Maybe you might have some different luck. Does make great small boxes, however, and I've even turned a couple of show goblets out of it. Make sure and apply the finish almost as soon as you get it off the lathe to prevent drying and cracking.


Kim

[bigsteel15]

You're both wrong. Close, but wrong.
I should probably tell that these pieces are only 3/4" sqaure.

[WoodButcher26]

Okay, I'll bite. Looked at it again, still looks like cedar, interested to hear the answer.

[Wood_workur]

Pinkheart? Paduak?

[bigsteel15]

Like I said, cedar was close.
Juniper is the correct answer.
And before you tell me that is still cedar...not many Juniper bushes get big enough to yield pieces like that.

[Wood_workur]

Like I said, cedar was close.
Juniper is the correct answer.
And before you tell me that is still cedar...not many Juniper bushes get big enough to yield pieces like that.

actually, junifer is the technical name for aromatic cedar. cedar would have been incorrect, but aeromatic cedar was correct.http://www.picframer.ca/cedar.htm read the first wood description.

[WoodButcher26]

Dunno about juniper not getting very big...had what was supposed to have been a 'dwarf juniper' that my mom planted outside our front door when I was about six...thirty years later, when she sold the house, it was about ten feet taller than the roof. Have seen numerous examples of the stuff that would yield a twelve inch diameter log, but not common, I will admit.

Kim

[bigsteel15]

actually, junifer is the technical name for aromatic cedar. cedar would have been incorrect, but aeromatic cedar was correct.http://www.picframer.ca/cedar.htm read the first wood description.

Here I thought I had you guys on one.
I used to Junipers being these ground crawling cedar family pesky shrubs.

[mschrank]

Here I thought I had you guys on one.

Wish I'd seen your post before today, as juniper was my first guess.

You did sort of get everyone on this, Brian. The confusion comes about when dealing with scientific names vs. common names (often local variations). Out here in Oregon we have a lot of juniper, and several different "cedars" (I put quotes around the word because they are all false cedars. True Cedars are not native to N. America). Some around here refer to incense cedar as "aromatic cedar." Nobody calls any of the cedars a juniper or vice versa.

The one you have pictured is likely Juniperus occidentalis, western juniper, not Juniperus virginiana one (of many) of the so called "aromatic cedars."

More than anyone needed to know...but it's nice to put my forestry degree to use once in awhile

[knimac]

Diamond willow?