What wood?

  • October 04, 2025 2:55 PM
    Message # 13549065

    Sorry for my inexperience -  what wood is pictured below?

    It's the underside of the top of an old plain desk I plan to harvest wood from for the group chair project. (It pains me to chop up perfectly functional furniture. But it's gone  unwanted. ReStore even coated it in milk pant trying to sell it.)

    Dragging my thumbnail doesn't feel the grain on an unfinished section and I can't dent it with a thumbnail.




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  • October 05, 2025 11:53 AM
    Reply # 13549209 on 13549065
    Tim Holiner (Administrator)

    Looks kinda like Mahogany

  • October 06, 2025 9:50 PM
    Reply # 13549700 on 13549065
    John LeJeune (Administrator)

    I'm no expert but my guess is red oak.

  • October 07, 2025 5:15 AM
    Reply # 13549742 on 13549065

    Oak for sure. 

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