My Last Mystery Wood????????

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OldWrangler

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Mike Hulsey nailed my other two Mystery Woods as Mimosa and Mulberry but now I got a wood that is a true mystery........I almost don't know what it is!!

I pruned this last year and got enough wood to make 4 beautiful pens. All have long since sold. This years pruning didn't net much better. I have 2 pieces about the size of the one shown. The other piece goes to the first person to slap the right name on the forum. This is not a real common tree but getting more popular all the time.

Not a lot of clues this time as I intend to make y'all work for this one. Tree is 6 years old, planted in my back yard, 12' tall before pruning, 4" trunk, decidious and has.....no, I'm not gonna tell you for a while.

Here's the pics.......get to guessing. Wood will make pretty pens when dry. Just cut on Sunday so needs about 60 days or a kiln.
 

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Plum, Pistachio (bearing or non-bearing), Chokeberry and Yew are misses but all are good guesses. The wood is very nice but kinda looks like so many others, these included.

Dario, go ahead and take a guess. No clues until later. Don't know what you might be thinking of.

Well Mike, where's your guess this time? This one ain't your Granny's Mulberry.

Come on Guys, get them guesses rolling in. If this one don't get ya, I'm giving up.
 
Well George I can't narrow it down with the pictures. I would think a fruit tree and I lean toward a peach with the color of the wood.
 
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Nope, nope & nope!!!!!!!!!! Billy, the wood is a "peach" alright but another kind of tree!! Now I'm starting to enjoy this. I thought this might be a tough one. Keep trying, your prize will yield some nice pens.

BTW, Mike, your Contorted Mulberry goes in the morning mail Priority. Look for it about Sat.

One last pic. This is the prize piece that will be sent out. Looks like about 4, maybe 6 blanks. Some good hidden color.
 

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Unless it's some species of pear I don't have a clue. It looks like some of the wild pears that used to grow around here.

BTW I haven't replied cause I've been without power for about 16 hours:mad:....plus now my shop is flooded. No turning for me until I get about 3 inches of water out and things dried!:frown:
 
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Okay this is really tough - the tree is still young so the bark is not too telling and I'm not from the south so it could be something I've never seen before so I'll throw out some SWAGs. Let's try Golden Raintree, Soapberry, Elm or Honey Locust. Bob I.
 
Bob, I was gonna make you pick your best guess of those 4 but they are all wrong anyways. It's not Apricot, Magnolia or SaltGrass. You guys are really reaching. This is really not that hard. It's not something like Panga Panga, Tambootie or some special rare tree that nobody has ever seen or heard of. This is growing right in my back yard. In fact, I have 2 of them but different species. I bought it in a local nursery about 6 years ago. It is easy to get info about it from the Internet.

Keep guessing, It's getting more valuable as the wrong guesses come in.
 
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....plus now my shop is flooded. No turning for me until I get about 3 inches of water out and things dried!:frown:
Click to expand...

Have you tried denatured alcohol or putting your shop in the microwave?
(on low, of course..) :biggrin:
 
Well, 5 more stabs in the dark, all incorrect. Looks like y'all gonna need some clues. How about some obscure piece of info each time I check in? OK.............

1. Not a fruiting tree

Mike, I'm so sorry to hear of your flooding and power outage. You are somewhere near Birmingham, aren't you? I haven't heard on the news about any flooding in your part of the country. I have a son in Fayette, near Tuscaloosa, guess he's OK but I better call. Hope you can get things cleaned up and there is not a lot of damage. Here is a pic of a scrap of the Contorted Mulberry that I turned to see what it would look like. It's not finished just turned and sanded to 400. It should dry first. Your piece is gone in the mail.
 

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