real knuckle buster and wood ID help

[triw51]

I was driving home from Sedona the other day when I got a urgent call of nature. I pull off on a dirt road and found a root burl, though it was mesquite but the wood is to white and soft. Not sure what the wood is so if you have any ideas let me know. The pictures show the progress as I worked on the vase.
Where there is a large crack I put some dowels with glue to keep it from cracking worse. The finish is orange oil and bees wax and yes I do have a bloody sore knuckle. That hurts!!!!
Thanks for looking comments or critiques are always welcome.

 

[KenV]

William, further south I would be thinking of the sycamore. I do not know if it is that far north from Tucson or at that elevation. Wood looks similar.

Do you have the book Trees Of Arizona?

 

[triw51]

William, further south I would be thinking of the sycamore. I do not know if it is that far north from Tucson or at that elevation. Wood looks similar.

Do you have the book Trees Of Arizona?

No Ken I don't have that book usually I can tell from the bark or leaves what type of wood it is but this was just a root ball not much bark so was hoping someone might recognize the grain pattern or something.

 

[robutacion]

Well, I love what you did with it, and I haven't found many people that will take the time and effort to clean and turn something like that. You had a benefit that the piece was a lot smaller that what looked in the first few pics but as we went along, its size became obvious nevertheless, is never easy to do suck kind of work and still is big enough to destroy your hand/fingers if you weren't extremely careful so, please that you didn't do too much damage on your knuckles.

Great to see,

Cheers
George

 

[Mr Vic]

Did the wood have any odor? Looking at the roots I'm thinking along the lines of cottonwood.

 

[Edgar]

You do tackle some challenging chunks of wood.

Really nice job - I hope your knuckles aren't too badly bruised.

 

[triw51]

Did the wood have any odor? Looking at the roots I'm thinking along the lines of cottonwood.

I did not smell anything like cottonwood but it was old and well dried.