Mystery Wood

[JayDevin]

Help all you wood Hounds!
Friends are always dropping off chunks fo wood for me to turn.
I thought this was Juniper, it is not. It has almost no Smell.
Turns like butter. any Ideas??????

 

[great12b4ever]

Western or mountain cedar. Looks like aromatic cedar but has no smell. In the plains area it is used quite a lot for fence posts. Very Soft wood, you need a good hard finish to protect. Juniper has a slightly more purpleish (is that a good word) cast to the heart, and has lots of bark inclusions. I have some of this myself, Turns better than maple.

Rob

 

[gketell]

Whatever it is, you made some fine-dandy pens out of it!
GK

 

[kent4Him]

My guess is also Cedar or maybe Juniper. Given no smell though, I am second guessing myself. I have turned a lot of Juniper and it always smells.

 

[Jim15]

Don't know what the wood is , but the pen looks great.