Know your woods
- Topic in Cabinet making courses
When you work with wood, you want to make the best choice for which wood to use. When you have boards in stock you wish to be able to determine the type of wood by looking at it. Smelling the wood can also be a big help in determining the type of wood.
Images of wood
- Click on the links of the trees to read a section 'Uses of wood', for example Castanea sativa
African padouk, from Pterocarpus
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Bosse wood (pink mahagony). See Guarea
Beech (European beech)
Bilinga(Obebe), from Nauclea diderrichii
Cherry, Black cherry
Cherry wood (Prunus avium)
Ebony wood, mostly from Diospyros
Fir (Abies alba)
Fir, from Picea abies(Norway spruce), see Spruce
Iroko wood
Oak(Quercus robur)
Poplar, used for packaging, matches, clogs
Plum wood
Ramin, from Gonystylus
Rosewood, from Dalbergia
Sipo mahogany wood
Sweet chestnut, see Castanea sativa
Taxus baccata, see Taxus
Tilia, Lime wood
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External links
- Houtsoorten Dutch Wikipedia
- Liste der Holzarten German Wikipedia
- Список пород древесины Russian Wikipedia
- List of woods Wikipedia
- Know your woods http://www.frontgate.com
- Wood Wikipedia
- Woodsampler Woodworker's Website Assocation, showing images of wood samples of many species
