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CEDAR, MISC
there are many different varieties of cedar and sometimes I find pictures of wood listed as cedar but with no other categorization. If I can identify them, I put them where they belong. Otherwise, or if they are of a variety that I have not yet broken out separately, I put them here
my samples:
both sides and both ends of a white cedar sample
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
both sides of a sample plank of deodar cedar --- the relatively poor quality of the sample is fairly common among the sample planks I got from the IWCS and I don't know how representative this piece is of the species (I do know that many of their samples were not representative)
end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above
Alaskan yellow cedar sample plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
Alaskan yellow cedar veneer
Port Oxford cedar sample plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
both sides of a Northern white sample plank,one side of which is all sapwood
end grain and end grain closeup of the sample plank directly above
quartersawn Lebanon cedar veneer --- a long piece and then a closeup of same. The color is more like the distance shot (a fairly lively tan with a hint of orange), not the more dull brown of the closeup.
quartersawn lebanon cedar sheets and a closeup
all of the following are the same subspecies of cedar, but I don't know what subspecies that is
veneer sheet and closeup
veneer sheet and closeup
veneer sheet and closeup
veneer sheet and closeup
veneer
yet another subspecies of cedar and I don't know what this one is either
alaskan yellow cedar burl veneer
web pics
listed as "African cedar", but I"m not yet convinced it's really cedar at all --- I think it's probably anigre or some other common African wood that sometimes has the common name "African cedar" --- I'll look into it. I have done enough research to determine that there is in fact a species of wood that is commonly referred to as "African cedar" or "East African cedar" but I have no idea yet whether or not this is it.
Argentine rose cedar plank
Australian white cedar
white cedar, plank and turning block
Alaskan cedar plank --- I don't find the brilliant yellow believable
listed as Alaskan yellow cedar
yellow Alaskan cedar plank and closeup --- note the striking difference in color of these pictures of the same plank. This is the kind of thing that made me do this site in the first place!
Alaskan cedar plank
listed as clear Alaskan yellow cedar
northern white cedar
"pencil" cedar
Lebanon cedar turning block and end grain
Lebanon cedar bowl blank
two views of some Lebanon cedar turning stock
Lebanon cedar planks
Lebanon cedar veneer
Lebanon cedar veneer all from the same vendor
Lebanon cedar sheets --- closeups with both levels of enlargement --- color seems too pink to me, and that's typical of this vendor. The second pic shows some tiny ray flakes which can be seen clearly in the 2nd enlargement
unspecified quartersawn cedar veneer and closeup --- I included this set mostly just as another example of how tan/brown woods sometimes come out purple with digital cameras, as the closeup obviously did for this vendor. The distance shot has likely color and the closeup is the kind of silly nonesense that made me start this site in the first place.
"Port orford" cedar --- plank and closeup, though you wouldn't know it to look at the massive color difference between the two pictures.
port oxford cedar plank --- both sides and a closeup
port oxford planks
waxed blank of port oxford cedar
a plank listed as "golden" cedar and one listed as "red" cedar
"red" cedar veneer
veneer sheets, all from the same vendor, just advertised as "cedar" with no variety specified.
veneer
pomelle veneer
there are numerous types of cedar that have the common name "toon". This is, supposedly, one of them, but I have no idea which one.
red cedar burl
listed as pencil cedar burl --- at a quick glance, it looks like vavona (redwood burl) but on closer examination you can see that it is different
veneer listed as "cedar burl" and a closeup --- this certainly does NOT look like a burl to me; it's more like a very light pomelle pattern.
Australian cedar and the same two planks moistened --- look strange to me; I've seen moistening significant enrich the color in wood but I have not experienced a wood going from brown to bright orange without the addition of a coloring agent. This vendor has shown other woods that change color similarly when "moistened" and I wonder if perhaps he "corrects" the color digitally.
plank listed as Australian red cedar
guitar front from a wood only identified as cedar