"Mike Hide" wrote in message news:LnlWc.74844$TI1.67537@attbi_s52...
Maple me thinks....mjh

Yep, that's maple. The clincher is the tiny ray-flecks (not
pores) in the quarter sawn grain that show up in maple and
cherry only when the grain is very close to perpendicular
to the surface.

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