I got a bunch of cherry from an estate sale along with this nice wide piece of oak, I think? What do you think? The last picture I sprayed some water on it.
Does not smell like root beer. After cross cutting to get a clean look at the end grain and comparing to examples from Hobbit House (thanks @Bill Clemmons), I believe its white ash. I couldn’t get a magnified picture but looking at the one from Hobbit House and comparing the the actual sample, it looks closer than anything else I could find in HH. I had some much lighter colored ash than this, but can see on the many examples on HH there’s a pretty wide range.