Wood ID?

[drillbit]

Can anyone tell me what wood this is?

It's a beauty to turn - would love to get my hands on more.

Cheers

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

Cider?

Cedar even

 

[gregmcateer]

round? :lol:

 

[duncanh]

Given the pips in the 2nd pic I'd say this is definitely yew

 

[mikec]

Given the difference in heart and sapwood and the radial crack lines plus pips it is almost definitely Yew.

mikec

 

[nev]

almost definitely positively 100% yew.
i think .

 

[Exbomz]

Another vote for yew

 

[tekno.mage]

I'd also go with Yew - but it might be Juniper (I had some of this and it looked a lot like yew, and was nearly as hard as yew) - however Juniper smells of pine resin when turned and Yew doesn't.

 

[drillbit]

I don't know if the photos are misleading but all the yew I've seen has quite an orangey reddish dark wood, whereas thus has a light brown colour with a very creamy White contrast. Its almost like White and milk chocolate colours.

Juniper sounds interesting. I gave some sort of cypress in the garden and turned done of that. It had a similar creamy colour so I could believe they were related. I don't remember much of a smell though...

I will sort out some pics of the logs I have left.. That might help I'd

Thanks for all suggestions.