Can anyone identify these species of wood?
AGoldstein
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I’m trying to put together a quote for a client but I’m not great at identifying wood species. I need to match the species of the belly casing, baseboard, and hardwood floor. I was thinking it would help to look at the underside of the flooring as that side will be unstained and give me a better idea. If needed, I can ask the client to take up a loose board and photograph the backside. Help would be appreciated.
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The floor looks like maple to me in that middle pic, but the end pic makes me not so sure. Maple is usually pretty consistant in terms of color, and you have bands of color in your boards. The grain looks too light to be oak though.
The casing might be oak. I'm basing that on grain here, but it's not super deep/dark, so hard to be sure.
Seeing the back of a board or three might help. Why don't you just use hardwoods you can easily get and stain them to match what you have though? I rarely try to match hardwook species because I can usually get a pretty good color match to existing hardwoods by playing around with different stains. I like to use Oak trim because it's easy for me to get, and it takes stain pretty well. I'd stay away from poplar for anything you need to stain. Walnut tends to be pretty dark, and maple has very tight grain structure and can be tricky to stain well.
Bill
First two look like oak, third one looks like red pine.
I agree first two oak, first one stained and third one looks kinda like hickory to me.
Oak, oak, and some variety of fir.
Yes that seems right
Image #1 looks like plastic molded to look like wood. LOL
Image #2 looks like red oak.
Image #3 looks like long leaf pine or heart pine.
Walta
Thanks all. Looks like most people think the flooring is oak, so that's what I'll go with. My molding supplier only provides molding in cherry, maple, popular, red oak, and sapelle and I think out of the choices sapelle might be the closest.
How old is that casing? I once had a 1900 victorian and it had original solid mahogany woodwork that looked alot like that. Totally different profile but the wood tone and grain looks like varnished mahogany. I think the two floor pictures are white oak.
When you go to buy the flooring and ask for oak, they will reply do you want red oak or white oak.
Walta