Mystery wood from Peppermill

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Not sure if this pic will work, but let me know if you can ID it
Uh ... good luck with that. Mark sometimes surprises me but that vague, low-res pic is hardly likely to be definitive enough to ID. Can you clean up the surface more and get a more focused image?
 

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I was thinking maple, not sure red versus sugar, but also consider yellow and black birch in that order. I discount other maples based on size and species availability and other birches for similar reasons along with spalt pattern.

As Paul stated, clean it up some and maybe....
 

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I was thinking maple ...
Mark, aren't those awfully strong rays for maple? I ruled out maple based on that. Of course, given the crap quality of the image, maybe what I'm seeing isn't even rays.
 

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That was a fresh cut, but did not sand it. I will put some sandpaper to it and see if I can get a better pic this evening.
 

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Mark, aren't those awfully strong rays for maple? I ruled out maple based on that. Of course, given the crap quality of the image, maybe what I'm seeing isn't even rays.

Thought they were saw kerf lines versus rays...
 

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Ok, let’s try again. Sanded to 220. Let me know if this one will work.

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Here is one more that I took outside and did some editing to try and make it better. Don’t know if I succeeded.

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Better. Those lines I was seeing must have been, as Mark surmised, saw kerf lines. The new pics do look like it could well be maple.
 
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