I called in on a mate today, another professional turner and he showed me a species of timber that I have never seen or heard of before. The fact that I never knew it existed and that I had never seen it before today was surprising after so many years working in wood I thought I had heard of a good many. (I know there are too many to hear about all of them) But this one was...Black Ash. Fraxinus nigra.
Grows in Canada and has unusual properties so worth looking in Wikipedia at it.