photo 1- mahogany, maybe walnut. 2- hard pine. 3- also hard pine. 4- oak. I am not positive, but I do believe this is correct.

#1 looks more like walnut than mahogany.
#2 yellow pine or heart pine.
#3 looks to be some sort of soft wood, probably a pine.
#4 quarter sawn oak, also referred to as tiger oak. It's not actually a species of oak but the way it is sawn.

I thought elm for 2 and 3? one more? thanks for your help

Agree mostly with Kevin, although it tuff to tell from some of the pictures.

In order of the pictures: walnut veneer, some kind of pine or spruce, pine, white oak (quarter sawn).

Heart pine is the heart wood of various southern yellow pine trees, quarter sawn oak is a mill cut of usually white oak.

Yeah and if it was from the heart of the tree the grain would be a lot more dense and heavy. 4 Is definitely quarter sawn white oak. 1 I'm almost siding with mahogany. Would help if we had a more overall picture of 1. 2&3 are definitely just yellow pine.

this is all number one

its not veneer

I am still going with Mahogany or Walnut. (the top and lower shelf) However these images show that it has more than one type of wood. The legs and this black circle are definitely oak. Can you show a pic from a few feet back that gives these components a context and a good overall view. It's an interesting and simple piece.

If the top right picture you just added is the bottom of the top, the grain doesn't match the top, so there is veneer someplace. Whatever part the black thing is, it is oak, and the small piece with it is pine. You do have a mixture of woods.

Al is right. I stand corrected. The leg is pine, not oak.

sorry my pictures are confusing, the black is just a stool that I was using and is veneer. not part of side table. here. I did the refinishing. it is not veneer

i just finished the quarter sawn oak jury chair..... now have this baroque chair that i have no clue about :/ i think I have a chair addiction

Is there is brand mark on the bottom? It looks very much like a Gunlock chair. I'm sitting in a wheeled, swivel one right now. They were the premier office char maker of the 30's and 40's. They are still in business but make mostly the stuff you see in every office today.

As noted above, #4 is surely quartersawn white oak; I have two of these chairs in my shop in varying stages of restoration. #2 and #3 are "hard" pine, as noted, though out-of-context #2 resembles Douglas fir plywood as well - zoomed out, the photo might provide more clues. As to #1, the unstained underside shows a light-colored, fine-grained, (what I call) "soft hardwood", perhaps soft maple or poplar. The middle pictures show an oak circle, stained dark, with what appears to be a pine stripe thru it. I don't see any mahogany, walnut, or elm (with its characteristic zig-zag grain) in any of the pics.

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Hey, thanks for all the input...So 2/3, the side table is undoubtedly 3 different types of wood, legs, inlay, top. Here are more pics... if this clarifies.

also, I was convinced 1 was walnut... :/

and if any of you are feeling up to it, there is more. I have a new antique businessI started 6 months ago... endless weird old furniture. here... these are all of one adjustable stool. It's half way done refinishing.

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@Sydney. Congratulations on your new business. The pieces you show have been interesting. You might find one of these wood identification kits useful to carry around when acquiring new pieces for restoration: http://www.amazon.com/Sauers-Wood-Identification-Kit-50-Piece/dp/B00C3EK2E0/ The slices are large enough to stain or clear coat a bit of each one to show how it looks when finished. Some shops also mount the slices on a wall to show customers.