Wood ID please

[bodrighywood]

I usually put the name of the wood on with these brooches but thee are of an unknown source so I haven't a clue what wood they are. The wood is fairly hard and turns well and the colour in the images is pretty accurate.

Pete

[fuzzyturns]

Colour and grain are consistent with some cherry I have had, but then I suspect you'd know a piece of cherry if it was in front of you. I've seen similar grain/colour on some types of cedar, but that's quite soft wood, so cannot be it. Since there are rings, I'd venture to say it's not a tropical wood. Could it be hornbeam? Copper beech?

[bodrighywood]

Thanks Fuzzy, definmitely not cedar or copper beech. Could be some kind of cherry, so many different variations. Hornbeam I wouldn't know as I've never knowingly had any.

Pete

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

Pete I was going to say some sort of Fruitwood. Perhaps a flowering cherry?

[bodrighywood]

Could well be John, I did cut a tree down about 8 years ago and this may be some from the back of a shelf. There was no bark on this which would have probably been a give away. Really need to start labelling wood when I get it LOL. 

Pete

[malcy]

I’ve had some cherry that looks like that, and my first reaction to seeing the photo was cherry. Having said that, I’m not brilliant at identifying woods. Malcolm.

[Les Symonds]

... I’m not brilliant at identifying woods. Malcolm.

....similar here, but I am brilliant at not identifying woods 

I, too, am in favour of cherry. I've currently got cherry from three or four different sources, some ornametal, some wild/fruiting, some garden cherry, and the variation can be considerable.
Les

[Derek]

I still have some ornamental cherry in my stock if you wait until after the weekend I will cut some and have a look. It was a tree from the garden that was right in the way of the veg patch

[seventhdevil]

I usually put the name of the wood on with these brooches but thee are of an unknown source so I haven't a clue what wood they are. The wood is fairly hard and turns well and the colour in the images is pretty accurate.

Pete

pete, can you give me a closeup of the grain that is crystal clear?

by closeup i mean very little background.

can i see a bit of ring porosity or is it my imagination???

[Bryan Milham]

I'm with the Temporate trees as well, tropicals don't normally have such a definitive visible grain. I'd also go with Cherry because of the wide grain and warm honey colour.

Not Hornbeam, I'm working with some of that at the moment, an almost white wood.

[Evets]

It looks near identical to some apple I turned last year. Almost certainly a fruit wood

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

I wonder if it is Pear just looking at the grain and the pinkish tinge.

[bodrighywood]

Could be John, I did have some pear and woudmhave kept the offcuts.

Pete

[Derek]

First of all sorry for not getting back with picture of the tree I took down Pete.

Anyway here is the ornamental cherry wood I have just cut this off of the piece that I have and it is still very wet. Not sure if it will darken as it dries. I have managed to get the photo as close as I can to the correct colours in the hand