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Wood ID, please

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  1. pjcalla

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    Gonna guess some maple?
     
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    Some different grain there so not sure it is maple. Would like to see more bark.
     
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    With all that white sapwood , maybe cheery
     
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    It's super wet, live cut about 2 weeks ago.

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    Well that bark don't look like cheery
     
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    Bark looks kinda sassy but wood looks maple
     
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  8. pjcalla

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    First round was stringy, and didn't split real easy. Second round, really easy to split. So much color variation in one round.

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    Post a Better pic of split grain also.

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    Color variations are from that giant Crack that started to center rot. Looks like the lighter colored stuff is normal. Maybe basswood?
     
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    What's it smell like. Looks like some slippery elm.
     
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    X2 my guess would be elm.
     
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    What's slippery elm smell like?

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    I am in the Maple camp. Bark is not Cherry. My experience with elm, unless Slippery Elm is different, it is stringy when split. Looks like you have clean splits.
     
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    Actually pretty stringy. The bark is reddish-orange and stringy just inside the outer-most layer.

    Smell is pleasant, havent smelled wood like this before.

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    Looks a lot like Hickory to me
     
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    Giant cactus???

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    At least some of the pictures look like elm. I've had plenty that split like heck, but almost as much split like maple and just pop apart with no effort.
     
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    Yeah, I'm sort of torn as to what it is. Reminds me of several types and don't like guessing.
     
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