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Wood Identification for cabinets

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#1 ·
Lumberjocks,
Wife to be fell in love with these cabinets for our new house.
No info on who made or what species or stain. I can match the color but unsure about species.

Can anybody identify the wood species?

I’m not quite sure. Possibly cherry, walnut or maybe pecan?

Appreciate your input .
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#3 ·
It’s not looking very natural to me. If it’s pecan or hickory someone did a good job of coloring the sap wood or they had very nice wide boards and cut away the sap wood. The color is so even I’d say the color has been altered
Looks nice
 
#6 ·
I used to work with a cabinet maker with years of experience. One of his musts was to take away the pictures from the homeowner once they expressed their desired "finish" by showing him the pictures. This avoided the unrealistic expectation that the finish was going to be "exactly like the picture". The problem being that wood is a natural product and you can only do so much to control grain and appearance. Additionally, if the light isn't the same as the light in the picture you may never get exactly the same appearance of the color.

If it were me, I'd get some samples of various woods that you can find locally and at a budget you can afford and try some stains and finishes to get a look that you and your other half like when looking at them in the space where the cabinets will be installed. It will be worth the investment in a sheet or two of most likely prospects and do your testing. You may also want to go to one of the big box stores to look at their displays of cabinets most of the time the big box store will list the species of wood, so you can get a better idea of the grain patterns that appeal to you.

Without more information (pictures of end grain and wood without stain) most all of us will be making a WAG as to the species of wood used. There might be some obvious indicators that would eliminate some woods (not redwood for example) but with finishes applied it can be easy to be misled.
 
#9 ·
+1 Color and grain seems heavily modified to me?

The grain patterns look like a splated Maple or Elm lumber. But could be created by creative use of stain/dye on hickory or similar species.

The image provided is also not very good. The image is low resolution. The wood flooring in washed out, or oversaturated; likely to accentuate the color of cabinets?
We have no images of end grain, needed to determine wood species. All of this this make is impossible to guess what kind of wood was used, or what coloring method was used.

Suggest that if you like these cabinets, why not buy them?

If you want make clones; then you need to play the part of an industrial spy. Contact the mfg as interested customer; and learn as much as you can about their mfg methods, wood species, and methods of coloring cabinets. If you can see them in person, open all the doors/drawers and look at how its made. If the mfg is located nearby, try to visit, act dumb - but very curious in how cabinets are made. Might get a shop tour. Can learn a lot about finishing methods used in cabinet shop; by reading the labels on cans of material in finishing shop. ;) ;)
 
#18 ·
At the bottom of the picture it says "Swipe up to ...", so it's probably on a website. If the website is promoting a cabinet, it should be giving a source, manufacturer or distributor, otherwise, what is the point of being on the website. Doesn't there should be a name to look up the telephone number. Anytime I have called the manufacturer of something, I've found them very responsive to questions and quite open, at least to the extent of their knowledge. If they don't have the knowledge they should be able to tell you they don't make it and be able to tell you where to go to find out. Be a Lt. Columbo; "Just one more thing".