https://www.wood-database.com/wood-filter/ is a good resource for trying to figure out wood, yours kind of reminds of ash maybe?
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Thanks, that’s a great website and I’ve been referring to it! It certainly has the texture of ash. You may be right. The color just looks kind of red so that’s throwing me off a little.
I don’t think it’s elm. It is on the hard and brittle side of things. I measured density somewhere around 700kg/m^3. It is pretty open grained. The brown spots are streaks that go through the wood.
Could you sand/plane a portion so we can see a clean cut of the long grain?
Yes of course. I think the wood is a bit more red/pink than it shows in these photos.
Looks like sycamore.
Googles visual match says juniper is the closest. I don't really know anything about woodworking
Thanks for checking. I don’t think it’s juniper just because juniper is a softwood and this is definitely a hardwood.