What type of wood is ?

Spalted Birch, or Leopardspot Alder
What if the answer we settle on is wrong?

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From a souvenir factory in china?

Spalted Birch, or Leopardspot Alder
What if the answer we settle on is wrong?

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naw its walalder with a spalting in guture

rj in az

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I’m just rolling on the floor, laughing my butt off, at these hilarious replies! Not.

Now, show the man some respect.

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I’m just trying to be helpful. The OP has a legitimate question.

https://www.lumberjocks.com/CricketW/blog/42535

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Does not look like normal spalted wood to me?
Spalting usually follows the early/late wood grain lines, as that is easiest path for water/mold to flow.

The side of board is not consistent with top?

Looks more like white pine that some artist partially stained.
Would be easy to make a natural pattern. Use a t-shirt full of holes on top as mask, and spray some grain sealer. Remove mask after it dries, rub on stain, and sand everything to remove fuzzy lines and grain sealer.
Voilà, leopard spotted wood.

YMMV

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Zebrano, commonly called zebra wood.
Its normally more striped, but I have used zebrano with that much pattern.

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After we have all offered our jokes and guesses, is the OP any closer to a definitive answer? Will he be more respected when he has an answer?

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Thanks for all the insight.

Dan

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I’ve never messed with zebra wood but to me it looked like it was a water damaged or rotted pine or maple…. or some sort of special Dalmatian lumber :)

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“Vaguely” resembles the wood “marble walnut” I used for my humidor

It’s from BRISTOL Tn, and Va border, so I would be surprised if they used anything except something local.

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Could be a lot of woods, but my guess is Poplar.

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Eastern red cedar

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Thanks. More curiosity on my part than anything, as it has been hanging around my shop for 9 years since I came across the board in a house I bought. Interesting that the wood is sound throughout, but also had that mottling throughout, as I resawed and planed it to make the coasters.

I’ll go with water damaged poplar, and as some have said, it doesn’t make any difference. I’m sure the camo look will appeal to someone here in the Appalachian’s.

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