help with wood id please

[heath]

Hi folks, can anyone ID this wood for me please, I got the log from a local tree surgeon/man with a chainsaw and a van.

Cheers
Heath

 

[Mesquite]

The butter style knife looks a bit like yew but a close up picture of the items would help with id'ing it

 

[mountainy man]

Looks like Alder to me , it goes orange when exposed to the air

 

[Robbi]

The butter style knife looks a bit like yew but a close up picture of the items would help with id'ing it

hold the Ctrl button down and scroll using your mouse and it will enlarge the piccy etc.

 

[Harvestman]

I would have said yew from the two on the left, but the bark on the ones on the right is wrong, so I'm going with Alder too, as the middle piece is a classic alder orange. Sadly, the spectacular colour fades. Nice looking work, by the way.

 

[heath]

Definitely not Yew. I've never worked with Alder before, but I heard about the orange oxidation and that was my guess. I wanted to be sure though considering that two of the items are for use with food.

 

[Hugo]

Elm I'd say.

 

[dwardo]

Could be a few things. More clues will come from its desity and how its works. Interlocking/stringy grain points to elm, very little density and it points towards alder.

 

[heath]

Could be a few things. More clues will come from its desity and how its works. Interlocking/stringy grain points to elm, very little density and it points towards alder.

I think it's Alder then based on that. It was very easy to carve.

 

[dwardo]

I once de-barked a load of fresh alder and the colour stained my hands for days, looked like fake tan, was rather embarrassing....