Sheesh I forgot I posted this thread - oops.
Thanks for the opinions everyone. I don't see a lot of furniture that uses that type of wood and my own woodshop class was waaaaay back in the early 80s, so was uncertain about what tree it came from. I'm considering building a mid-century/Danish type of stand for a new flatscreen TV (42"). The TV only weighs around 45lbs but this stand will also be used to hold my HT gear along with dvd/CD/LP storage so it will also be quite long (front left and right speakers will be sitting on it along with a turntable)
and heavy when all that "old fashioned"
storage media is loaded into it.