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Can anyone identify these species of wood? – GreenBuildingAdvisor
- January 21, 2025
- Posted by: sherwin@eyeconz.com
- Category: Uncategorized
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