Name the wood

[Rick Wik]

I'm about to find out if I've gotten the hang of the photobucket idea ...

This is a bit of the kitchen wainscot stripping I've been doing. Any clues as to the type of wood?

Rick

[wletson]

a bit closer pictore would help, but I would guess pine

[LarryinIowa]

From here, looks like southern yellow pine.

[brian89gp]

From here, looks like southern yellow pine.

Second that. Looks like pine of some sort.

[Rick Wik]

Many thanks! I know nothing about wood, and tend to associate pine with knots, and much less swirl in the grain than this stuff, but I suppose I'm thinking of white pine.

Rick

[Igloochic]

I know its stripped so a bit of patina is gone but the grain looks like the grain in our wainscotting a bit....we were given to understand it was cherry of some sort.....maybe I have to investigate more.

[Sacto Diane]

Where are you located? Geographical location also helps as certain species were used in certain areas. (e.g Doug fir and Redwood were common on the west coast)

[Rick Wik]

I live in Western Massachusetts (Northampton). When I mentioned to a friend, a long-time resident of the area, what I was doing, her first question was if the wood was cherry.

[wletson]

Nope, I wouldn't think cherry. Wrong color.

[HB]

It's beautiful woodwork.

I believe that it's all pine. probably Southern yellow pine. The raised panel work looks like they used quartersawn pine for the rails and stiles, and flat sawn pine for the panels. That's why there's more grain pattern showing on the faces of the panels.

Nice looking stuff.

HB