End grain chopping block?????

[Mike Stanley]

It does sorta look like beech. Looks sorta too dull too to be beech. Looks almost like elm, but I don't think it's elm either. I'm going to drag out some of my very dry elm and take an end grain look at it.
As far as the oil: FDA likes mineral oil a lot. We make cutting boards commercially here, and all we use is mineral oil. Since you have end gran there to cut on, I see no reason why you'd ever want to flip the board over, so I'd also put rubber feet on the bottom just to make sure water doesn't get into that end grain. That's a good looking board you have there.

 

[helmswatch]

Again NCWW amazes me.....Samples, microscope, cellular structure...We even have our own CSI Division!! Dave, your new handle should be Horatio, or Grissom!

Duke & Irene

 

[Dutchman]

It is kind of hard to tell from the pictures, but I'll throw a guess out too - Pecan.

 

[Mike Stanley]

Pecan, I'll bet you lunch and a cup of coffee, it's not pecan.

 

[jeff...]

I think that wood is Fagus Sylvayica (beech) as in "son of a beech" or "tanning you buns on the beech" But You could always send that fine looking butcher block to a lab and they could a chemical analysis.

 

[clowman]

I know what it is... It is NICE! Great job Dave. I have come to expect nothing less from your shop!

 

[DaveO]

I think that wood is Fagus Sylvayica (beech) as in "son of a beech" or "tanning you buns on the beech" But You could always send that fine looking butcher block to a lab and they could a chemical analysis.

Jeff.. the general consensus is that it is Beech, but I still am doubtful. It's pore structure is more like many exotics I have seen and it has a more greenish color to it that any pictures of Beech I've seen.
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/beech.htm

Of course I've never worked with it in person so I could be completely wrong.
Dave

 

[Wilmingtonian]

DaveO, beautiful as always! Is there anything you can't do with wood?:eusa_thin :eusa_snoo

 

[D L Ames]

I saw an unfinished sample of this wood tonight when I stopped by Dave's shop. It looks a lot like teak to me.

D L

 

[SteveColes]

Teak

Beech

 

[DaveO]

It looks very much like the Teak example linked in Steve's post. The end grain has visible pores and that is a very distinguishing feature to it. Yellofins brought over a piece of European Beech today for comparison, it was close but different in grain structure.
Dave

 

[D L Ames]

Teak

Beech

Yep, it looked like teak alright.

D L

 

[jeff...]

Yep looks more like teak than beech, now that I seen the pics steve coles linked too (thanks Steve). I would call it teak, but irregardless of what wood it is, it sure is one nice cutting board. Great work!