"Salvaged" Wood Question

[VGJ5]

I have a question about some wood that I have.  This may belong in a different forum, so I apologize if that is the case.  Disclaimer: I know very little about wood types or call making.  These boards came from a building that is up on my family's land that was recently taken down.  My great-grandfather's old store is to the left of where it stood (some of you may have seen me on the steps of the old store with turkeys).  To the right of where it stood is another old building (we call it "Uncle Gordy's house") where my g-grandfather's friend lived and operated a smaller store in the front room; it is in pretty bad shape too, but it's still standing and there is a lot of wood I could get out of it. 

I've been using the boards from the one that was taken down to mount deer heads on (Euro mounts).  I have two questions, which I hope someone on here can help me out with.  1) Do you know what type of wood this is (I know it's hard to tell from only pictures)?  My guess is cypress, but I could definitely be wrong.  2) Is there a chance these boards could be useful for making turkey calls?  The short one I cut that you can see the wood grain in measures about 7/8" thick.  I know there are boards of different sizes/thickness up there too.

Thanks in advance!






- Gaines

[jmck]

cypress or heart pine is my guess

[GR8CALLS]

I go with heart pine.

Bill

[Porter]

I'll throw in I know one thing... it's not Osage    Sorry I could not resist but that is cool to try and salvage something like that!

[CCCalls]

Looks like Heart Pine to me.
You should be able to smell the pine on a fresh cut piece.

Timbo.

[callmakerman]

I would say heart pine as well.

[GR8CALLS]

I'm just looking at how it weathered..........winter growth rings are harder on Heart Pine and they stick out like ribs, in the photos. Never saw enough, Cypress, to know if it wears like HP.

Bill

[VGJ5]

Thanks for the info., everyone.  I will take some pictures of Uncle Gordy's house the next time that I'm up there.  It very well could be different and/or multiple types of wood.  All three buildings are/were around 100+ years old, so who knows.  The Uncle Gordy house has some huge beams (i.e. a more workable size of wood) in the support frame, but getting to them would be pretty difficult until it falls down.  A huge pine fell on the back of it a few years a go, so it's a bit unstable.  Of course, I still go in there  . . .