Is this cherry?

[gesiak]

I purchased a piece of “cherry” from Woodcraft, several months ago. It is clearly labeled as cherry. Today I turned a piece of it for a pepper mill, after turning it is a lot paler, and looks like maple. What do you think cherry or maple.

 

[Hmerkle]

I think it is just "light" cherry, se it in the sun... oh wait, you don't see that until July up there! LOL
(got a sunlamp) LOL

 

[JNCarr]

I think it's cherry - rub a little mineral spirits on it. If cherry, it'll darken, if maple, not so much.

 

[gesiak]

Hank, I am leaning towards “light” cherry. A friend whose shop I turned the blank said he thought it might be maple because of the light color and grain.

He is a demonstrator for Easy Wood tools and got to test out a couple of the tools and Easy Woods beading tool. Now that I have tried them, I plan on acquiring a couple of them.

 

[gesiak]

I think it's cherry - rub a little mineral spirits on it. If cherry, it'll darken, if maple, not so much.

Thanks, I’ll try that.

 

[Graywolf]

It looks like cherry from my house.

 

[JRedding]

The grain and slight tint makes me vote cherry as well.

 

[Hmerkle]

I hate trying to ID wood on the computer or with pictures, but I am looking at the grain and the "almost mottling" of color when you look between the annular rings

 

[mkepke]

I would just take a big wiff of the shavings from the turning. Cherry has a distinctive, pleasant, slightly perfumed smell - to me anyways!

-Mark