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Title: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: doggonemess on July 13, 2012, 07:23:24 pm

Greetings, per my previous post where I misidentified evil wood as locust, I wanted to provide more images of the mystery log. I took some of the end grain as requested, and can tell you one more detail. The raw wood has a pleasant, not-fruity odor, but hard to describe. It doesn't smell sweet and watermelon-y like maple, and doesn't stink like red oak. It almost smells like it could be a 'savory' flavor.

I'm not going to eat it, I swear. Anyway, here are the images:

(http://thatsmywebguy.com/hosted/images/photos/archery/logs%20(1).jpg)

(http://thatsmywebguy.com/hosted/images/photos/archery/logs%20(2).jpg)

(http://thatsmywebguy.com/hosted/images/photos/archery/logs%20(3).jpg)

The bark is very thin. It does not come off without effort.

(http://thatsmywebguy.com/hosted/images/photos/archery/logs%20(4).jpg)

This gives you an idea of the size and shape. It's pretty heavy, probably about 30 lbs for a four-ish foot section.

(http://thatsmywebguy.com/hosted/images/photos/archery/logs%20(5).jpg)

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: KHalverson on July 13, 2012, 07:28:02 pm

not an expert by any means but looks like a species of hickory
or ash

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: blackhawk on July 13, 2012, 08:00:09 pm

Hickory..but it looks like it has almost 90 degrees of twist in it,and not very straight either

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: okie64 on July 13, 2012, 08:13:49 pm

Thats mulberry, the rings look way too thick for any hickory ive ever seen.

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: mitch on July 13, 2012, 09:06:49 pm

Mullberry i bet

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: gstoneberg on July 13, 2012, 09:15:19 pm

Might be mulberry...or hickory, but it probably doesn't matter.  That twist really is too bad to build a bow with that much character from.  Blackhawk is right.

George

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: crooketarrow on July 13, 2012, 10:30:58 pm

I just cut and split 4 logs of it this spring it's MALLBERRIE.
  It's a cousin to OSAGE, WOODS ALMOST AS GOLDEN AS OSAGE BUT NOT QUITE AS YELLOWESH GOLD MORE LIGHT YELLOWEST.

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: TRACY on July 13, 2012, 11:50:57 pm

Quote from: okie64 on July 13, 2012, 08:13:49 pm

Thats mulberry, the rings look way too thick for any hickory ive ever seen.

I'll solidly agree!

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: paulsemp on July 13, 2012, 11:56:57 pm

 mulberry

Title: Re: Mystery log #2 - some more detail
Post by: DarkSoul on July 14, 2012, 05:59:05 pm

Looks like mulberry. Those markings on the bark are a good give-away. Ring like structures, evenly spaced along the length of the log.

It also looks an aweful lot like sumac. Is that resin leaking out of the bark on the cut ends? Does mulberry have this resin? Sumac does! The more I look at the pictures, the more I'm leaning towards sumac...
If in doubt, hold a piece of heartwood under a blacklight UV light. If the wood lights up bright yellowish green, it is sumac. If it doesn't change color, it's mulberry.