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

  • snota@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I loath getting on my high horse, but don’t take things from forests unless they are explicitly there for the taking or you have permission from someone. The odd small item here and there may not seem significant but if everybody did it it would have a significant impact.

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    1 year ago

    Hard to tell From the photo, but might be Ash. If so, it would make a great axe handle. But you can of course make an axe handle out of any hardwood, it will mostly be fine.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it is ash - the bark does not look right. Having a cross section showing the face grain and end grain is often helpful to identify wood from a picture.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, those terms match your pictures. My vote is for beech, but it’s still a guess. It grows in the region (Jura Mountains), is a hardwood and has a similar grain pattern and bark.

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          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?