What kind of wood is this?

[juno]

This is the best picture I could find. It is an extreme close up (the sample in this picture's true width is about a 1/2") but I thought it would help. It's for a wand.

I thought it might be a bird's eye maple, but it seems a bit too dirty.

 

[Boba Debt]

Most of the time it's easier to identify wood from a distant picture, do you have one that isn't so close?

 

[Darkknight0667]

Shawn (morganthirteen) is the man to see about wood .

 

[Blad]

I think it's Edwood.

 

[juno]

That's the only pic I have

 

[Boba Debt]

It could be redwood burl

 

[Serafino]

The texture is really weird--like it was weathered with a wire wheel or something.

There doesn't really seem to be a grain pattern, just this weird surface texture. So I'd guess pink ivory, weathered.

But not seeing the wood in context makes it pretty much impossible to identify--what's the lighting, what's the color bias of the shot, etc.?

 

[juno]

Here it is shrunk down and lightened to what I think is the original size:

 

[Jedirick]

Does it come in flat blanks or turned rods?

First guess is an exotic called Bubinga

 

[juno]

This piece is round (turned?) but I don't know much else.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Trying.... to, resist, ....too strong, must.....

Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh.

You said "wood".

 

[juno]

Hey, I could've made the thread title "What kind of hard wood is this?"

 

[Serafino]

Bubinga is much darker than the prop sample shown.

If the color is natural, then maybe a light example of pink ivory, but otherwise I'd say a slightly stained very light wood like European sycamore (a soft maple which is very light in color) or holly.

 

[Ramiel]

From that pic it could be everything... I was thinking at both mahogany or ebony, but it's to hard to tell... Sorry

 

[juno]

You guys have given me some good places to start -- I guess I'll buy some pen blanks and hope for the best.