Is this log Mulberry, Osage, or something else?

[RAU]

the bark sure looks like osage to me.

[ChristopherO]

I think it is osage that has been split for a little while.

[JackSprat]

Whatever it is, it has been split for quite a while. 9 months in the pile in my garage and who knows how long before that at the tree service place I bought the wood from.

[Roy Steele]

My votes mallberrie, Osage dos't have that thick of early wood between the rings. Plus those look like perrty wide rings a trate of mallberrie. The barks ruffer the mallberrie and more like osage to different locations ,bark can look different. But those thick early wood rings says mallberrie for sure.

[okie64]

Shave a half inch or so off the end and see what color it is. If its yellow- orange its osage, if its brown its mulberry.

[JackSprat]

I sliced off the end and it's nice and yellow INSIDE, but outside where it's been exposed to the weather it's brown. Some people describe fresh-cut osage wood as "electric" yellow, but I'd call this a light but prominent yellow, if that makes any sense :-)

I may never know for sure what these logs in my woodpile are, but this thread has been an education. Thanks.

[okie64]

Heres a pic I took a while back that might help you out. Left to right, osage, mulberry , and black locust. The osage is pretty old but I took a fresh slice off the end before I took the pic.

 

[tom sawyer]

The big growth rings and beeswing figuring in the wood remind me more of mulberry than hedge, at least as far as what I've cut here in MO.  Here mulberry is also quite a bit less dense than hedge.  But its tough to tell for sure, they are related species.

[stumpssticks]

i have built seven mulberry bows in the last 20 years and that is a prime example....jeff

[Axis Thinner]

Currently working on my first MB stave, and I think that is what you have. Pretty familiar with Osage, and I just don't think that is it. Bark just doesn't look right.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Looks like bow wood to me.

[coaster500]

I'm with Drums...  let's build a bow  

I've got the twin in my dry rack....  Mulberry