What Wood Is This?

martin ferwerda

W/C Canoes
Any guesses as what kind of wood this is? I received a mix lot of lumber, some sitka spruce, some western red cedar and this, which was being called cherry. I am thinking this some kind of "mahogany" maybe meranti?
 

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Well, rather hard to describe, taxing my descriptive skill here, not like Western Red Cedar, not like Northern white cedar, more like dark umber, or maybe I am thinking of an imperial stout. More seriously, I really cannot describe the smell, but it is heavy, way more heavy that cherry and more heavy than oak. Attached is an image of the underside of a Thompson deck, which I always thought might be Spanish cedar, as whatever that deck is made of, it is light.
 

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What is the density of meranti?
This would rule out any mahogany I've ever seen.

"but it is heavy, way more heavy that cherry and more heavy than oak."
 
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