Competition Wood

[Dalboy]

I am late turning my competition piece as I have only just started it today. Went to the wood pile and chopped out a piece of log for the main portion of the piece.

This is just a rough out with no shape so not giving anything away, this is what I found once I started turning any ideas of the wood type.

This is the log it is from

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

that looks very like hazel to me

But it also looks like beech branchwood

with a perfectly reasonable possibility of sweet chestnut too

 

[KimG]

Assuming it is only the foremost log, (the two at the rear look like Holly) then those lines on the bark look like an acer species, apart from Sycamore, most of the acer family have vertical lines on them, admittedly these spiral a bit which suggests sweet chestnut, but most sweet chestnut trees I have seen don't display this characteristic till the bark starts to fissure and is usually on quite thick sections where the bark is old enough. That doesn't discount it though.

Got to say, it doesn't look like Hazel to me which tends to have a paler, more papery looking bark a bit like birch.

Whatever it is it looks nice!

 

[Grahamshed]

I am looking at a bit of sweet chestnut I turned last week and there are similarities so I will go with that. ( which should put the mockers on it )

 

[Dalboy]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone

the two at the rear look like Holly

That is what they are I have 3 x 6' lengths