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Wood ID. Maple?

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  1. Mag Craft

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    So I scrounged up this wood from the local compost. Just rounds with no leaves or branches to speak of. There was a lot of rot which is probably why it was taken down. I suspect it was a planted tree out of Burns Wyo in some ones yard.

    I am guessing that it could be maple but I do not know enough about trees like this because there are so few around here.

    Some I have given away to some wood workers I know and some I am going to keep for smoking.

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    Wood and cambium layer look alot like silver maple, but the bark doesn't....but that could be a geographic thing....
     
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    Boy that curl is beautiful, though! I bet rustyspurs would love to make some turkey calls from that stuff!
     
  4. Mag Craft

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    I thought of oak but it does not seem to have the density or weight that I think oak should have.
     
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    Found this cool site.

    http://www.treebarkid.com/

    I went though some of the trees in the maple family. Only guessing. What about box elder? There is a town in eastern Wyoming named after box elder which makes me thing that tree might be common.
     
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    There is Box Elder around here but does Box Elder develop that kind of curl in the grain. I don't know.
     
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    Does not look anything like Boxelder that I have experience with. Maple sounds possible, it does look some White Oak, too.

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    That's some beautiful grain. Somebody sand that down....shes too pretty to burn.
     
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    That doesn't look like the bark of any maple I am familiar with. The maples out in dry areas of the west are usually the same maples we have in the east - Red, Norway, Silver, maybe Sugar Maple. The bark doesn't look like any of those. I am not very familiar with European maples like Sycamore Maple, so maybe you have one of those. The wood does look like maple, but I can't ID the tree from these pics.
     
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    Yeah it was in two places?
     
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    I don't know if that is box elder butt I had some box elder I split with grain like that
     
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    Well then it is possible that it is box elder. That would be more common around here than say silver maple.

    I tried to find some pics on the net about box elder having a grain like this but really did not find anything. I wonder how it will be for smoking meat.
     
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    Is it dead? box elder weighs a less than silver maple, from what I understand the Box Elder doesn't always have red streaks in it
     
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    There was no red streaks anywhere in the wood I cut up. In fact every piece of this wood I cut had some of that curl in it and was of the color you see.

    I did find pics of the flamed box elder on the net and that is some pretty cool looking wood.
     
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    Only a small portion of what I split head curl in it
     
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    Looks a lot like that tiger figured maple. We get it a bit around here if you get the right tree. Imported it can be a hefty 10 grand for a good sized tree. I saw that kind of figuring on some really nice guitars before.
     
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    I'll agree with you Scotty Overkill, the bark isn't right for Maple.
     
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    Could it be some sort of locust? The bark looks similar to black locust.
     
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    I vote maple....some of the big old maples will have a heavy rough bark
     
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    Box elder is a member of the maple family. And I'm sure it could have curling in it.
     
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