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Can any of you identify this wood? (nextcloud.kessel.hya.sk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I found it in a forest in Jura mountains (France). Do you think I could make an axe handle out of it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From the trees that grow there, beech is completely a possibility, but I can't find the little dashes that I usually see on the edge grain of beech wood, thus I eliminated that possibility. Still I don't know if every beech look the same, so, maybe you're right? Oak, ash and maple are all other possibilities for that forest, but maple was very unlikely, thus the other guesses (oak and ash) are completely plausible too.

Do you think of a test, or anything else I could do on the wood to help further determine the essence?