Difference between revisions of "Know your woods"
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File:Cherry wood (Prunus avium).JPG|[[Cherry]] wood (Prunus avium) | File:Cherry wood (Prunus avium).JPG|[[Cherry]] wood (Prunus avium) | ||
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File: Macassar01.jpg|Ebony wood, mostly from [[Diospyros]] | File: Macassar01.jpg|Ebony wood, mostly from [[Diospyros]] | ||
File:Elm wood.JPG|[[Elm]] | File:Elm wood.JPG|[[Elm]] | ||
Revision as of 09:13, 4 February 2012
- Topic in Cabinet making courses
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
- Bossé wood.JPG
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
Ramin, from Gonystylus
Rosewood, from Dalbergia
Sweet chestnut, see Castanea sativa
Taxus baccata, see Taxus, historically used for the construction of longbows
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
