What wood is this?

[RogerP]

I'm sure I know but a friend has made be doubt myself.
So without me influencing you - what's your opinion?

 

[undergroundhunter]

Rosewood maybe??

Matt

 

[custard]

Lignum Vitae

 

[Peter Sefton]

Lignum head Beech handle

 

[Billy Flitch]

Just to be different Ill go with fruit wood with a beech shaft, probably Plum. Very hard wood.

 

[Kalimna]

Cocobolo head?

 

[CHJ]

Cocobolo head?

Must admit it was my first thought. Too late to go and compare between that and Bubinga I have in the shed.

 

[bourbon]

it's definitely tree LOL

 

[Billy Flitch]

Yea going back in time it used to be called didgrow.

 

[Kalimna]

Going by the sapwood, it looks like quite a small log, so I am guessing unlikely to be bubinga. The dark flecks are quite reminiscent of anjan, and the 'watermarking' on the first image similar to Brazillian rosewood or ziricote, but I reckon too reddish for the later. The sapwood is also quite similar to padauk, but again, the log size suggests not.
Yep, I'm still going with cocobolo

Adam

Any chance of a freshly planed surface???

 

[Jacob]

Something like ash for the handle and a fruitwood for the head. The colour mainly down to linseed oil or something similar.

 

[Woody2Shoes]

Head - some kind of prunus - blackthorn/plum/gage ?
Handle - beech ?

W2S