I might have shot myself in the foot

[Mike Brooks]

My truck loD of "English  Walnut" probably isn't.  The growth rings are course like ash. It also turns dark with age like cherry does
 I saw a piece of this tree in the local tavern that has been turned into a table top. It's quite attractive, dark brown with beautiful curl. Very hard. It has the right smell and taste as walnut but it isn't any variety I have ever seen before. So, I'm  taking guesses. It reminds me of Hackberry. But the color is wrong
These are two of the plainest  pieces. Any guesses?

[Gaeckle]

Mike, I have a stock of Hackberry and it doesn't look like that. How hard and dense is that stuff?

[Mike Brooks]

Mike, I have a stock of Hackberry and it doesn't look like that. How hard and dense is that stuff?

Similar to ash.

[Mike Brooks]

Mulberry?. The mulberry I have worked with starts out pretty yellow and ages to brown, so probably not.

[Bsharp]

Do they make one of them fancy phone Apps that ID wood species?

[T*O*F]

If it has the taste and smell, maybe it's butternut.

[Mike Brooks]

If it has the taste and smell, maybe it's butternut.

This stuff is harder than butternut.

[Bob Gerard]

Chestnut I would venture to guess.

[smylee grouch]

Have you stained any yet or put oil or Finnish on it to see how it looks that way ?

[Eric Kettenburg]

I'm not Mike Brooks but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night:

If it's good and hard, and dense, who give a s ** t what it is?

 

[Steeltrap]

It's a cut from one of those new laminated trees

[john bohan]

I think maybe elm?

[okawbow]

I’ve seen some honey locust, ( the ones with the long thorns,) that looks like that. Pretty hard and not quite as heavy as Black Locust. Makes great laminated longbows.

[Mike Brooks]

I'm not Mike Brooks but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night:

If it's good and hard, and dense, who give a s ** t what it is?

 

That's were I'm headed. I'm going to ship a chunk off to mark wieder and have him run one of my fowling gun stocks out of it. I need a shotgun anyway.
 

[Austin]

Hackberry has green and purple tinges in it. Im like Eric, if its good and hard, try it! Brooks’ mystery wood…..

[Stoner creek]

 I say chew on it a while and see what it tastes like! You know, like basswood tastes like bass!!

[AMartin]

Perhaps , Elm or Catalpa ...

[bp]

Any chance it might be pecan?

[AMartin]

It also looks a tad like Chinese Chestnut .. b

Don't worry Mike ... I have 4 huge planks of English Walnut that I need to cut out soon .. I just cut nice selection of hard black walnut stocks .. several more planks to go ..
If anyone is in need ... gimme a shout ..
I will be posting a bunch of gunstocks before long .. when time allows !!

[Daryl]

If that "joint" between early and late grown is the same as black ash, it's of no use as a gun stock, imho.
(although I did make a VERY good bow out of ash)
It looks like it would make a VERY interesting stock, due to the weird grain.

[Gaeckle]

Found this, it's elm



Looks somewhat similar

[okawbow]

https://www.domexhardwoods.com/site_assets/images/products/honey_locust_1-25x4x69b.jpg

Honey locust.

[Mike Brooks]

Here's  the bark if it's any help.

[WadePatton]

Here's  the bark if it's any help.

Maybe it's an oddly weird hard piece of Butternut, that bark is not unlike (but I don't ususally look at treebark sidewise) and your report on the taste/smell indicate it to me.  Butternut around here gets sick and dies before it makes a sawlog, but I have learned to spot it because I like the nuts. I can get a bark shot of my butternut Friday (standing timber none sawn). I figure it makes a better tree other places where it doesn't die "young".

Pecan would be more Hickory-like I'd think. Honeylocust has thorns aplenty-even on the trunk. I don't think all evidence of those thorns would be gone with that much bark intact.

It's not Osage is it?

[Ted Kramer]

Red oak