What Woodgrain Again

[norlander]

Any ideas? table is pre WW2, home made, around 70 yrs oldish,

 

[eSCHEn]

Nice wide planks with a definite grain suggests elm to me. Could be larch by the pattern.

 

[Migmac]

As the man above says it could be elm

 

[norlander]

Thanks lads a local woodworker thinks elm as well-I was about to cut it up for a workbench, but guess elm might be a tad rare nowadays so think I'll take care of it.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

My guess is stained Ash. Elm tends to have a curlier grain pattern which is what makes it a bugger to split, that looks too uniform to me.
If you can plane or cut a small piece you can try the sniff test, Elm smells like cat pee whereas Ash has a fresher smell.

 

[tlovatt]

Are you sure it is home made, it looks like quite a common flat pack type, my parents have one that from memory is very similar

 

[Migmac]

 

[mike os]

Ash, chestnut or American white oak

 

[norlander]

Are you sure it is home made, it looks like quite a common flat pack type, my parents have one that from memory is very similar

Its 1930s era, so I am not sure flat pack was about then?

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that looks right, and, my family hail from the Midlands and were Coopers/Wheelrights/Cartwrights, Ash was used, and still is in Morgan cars so ash is more than likely.
Probably an early Morgan with a lightweight bulkhead out there somewhere

 

[Shox Dr]

Its 1930s era

The design might be but is the table. I remember putting one of those together in the 80's for my mum, she still has it

 

[norlander]

The design might be but is the table.

I played under it, slept under it and wrote rude pomes underneath the top, on top of the ones writ by my brother who was born before WW2, it older than me, and I'm 67.