What Wood is this?

[sam.phillips5]

Hello,

Complete novice... I have just found a large stack of cladding which I aim to reuse. I have plained a piece up and I am unsure of the type of wood. I am led to believe it's cedar?

 

[blackteaonesugar]

Does it smell when you've cut it?
Cedar usually has quite a distinctive nose.

 

[Sgian Dubh]

If it's pre-existing cladding you're planning to reuse it's likely to be larch which is quite durable for exterior locations and a common choice for cladding uses. Your images show a piece of a relatively low quality (knotty with what appear to be resin pockets, for example) material so, for me, larch is a reasonable guess. Slainte.

 

[Bingy man]

Looks very similar to the old fencing I used to make some garden planters , was advised on this site it was larch .

 

[Fitzroy]

I'm also in the larch camp, it's very light coloured (almost pinkish) when freshly planed and then darkens in the sun to a very orangey colour over a week or so. Base board is newly planed vs cladding which was up a for a few weeks. This is many moons ago now and the whole thing is pretty silvered.