Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family (Family Betulaceae). Alder is appreciated for its bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.Works very well with both hand and machine tools |
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Almond wood is reddish. The timber is highly prized for high-grade cabinetwork,, |
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Apple wood (Malus sylvestris, Malus pumila) ranges in color from yellow to pink to orange. It usually has an irregular grain, which gives it a very interesting patterns for furniture, as inlays and for marquetry designs. |
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Ash, Fraxinus spp., is a harwood, average to somewhat
difficult to carve. Ash may require a filler, before finishing,
depending on the intended result. |
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Beech (Fagus) is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae |
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Birch wood is fine-grained and pale in colour. The wood
of yellow birch is heavy, hard and strong with good crushing strength
and shock resistance. |
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A whitish-yellow color, without any figure. Used mainly as an inlay or for stringing lines from the sixteenth century. |
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Cedrus or cedar, a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae insect-repellent and light-weight. |
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The heartwood of cherry
varies from rich red to reddish brown and will darken with age and on
exposure to light. In contrast, the sapwood is creamy white. The wood
has a fine uniform, straight grain, satiny, smooth texture, and may
naturally contain brown pith flecks and small gum pockets. |
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Chestnut exist in a wide variety of reddish brown colors. |
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Cypress heartwood is extremely decay and insect resistant due to the naturally occurring preservative known as cypressine. |
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Ebony is very strong, hard, and dense with irregular grain and fine texture. There is a huge variation in this wood as to how much light color there is. |
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Elm, Ulmus Rubra, is moderately heavy, hard
and stiff with excellent bending and shock
resistance. |
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Firs (Abies) are a genus of 48?55 species of evergreen conifers in the family Pinaceae.
Firs are most closely related to the cedars (Cedrus); Douglas-firs are not true firs, being of the genus Pseudotsuga |
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Trees in the genus Carya Hickory wood is very hard, very stiff, very dense and very shock resistant. |
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White wood type, fine-grained and nearly devoid of figureused, used for inlay and marquetry work from sixteenth century |
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Kingwood: Brazilian wood of a rich violet-brown shading into black and showing distinct streaky markings. The name "kingwood" derives from the fact that a couple of hundred years ago, this was the favored wood of French kings for their furniture. |
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White wood type, fine-grained and nearly devoid of figureused, used for inlay and marquetry work from sixteenth century |
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Some maple wood has a
highly decorative wood grain, creamy white to off white sapwood-tinged
occasionally with slight red brown heartwood |
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Mahoganyny wood has a fine
grain with interlocking parallel runs at times (ribbon) the color is |
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Mesquite (from Nahuatl mizquitl) is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in northern Mexico and south US in dry areas. |
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Oak(Quercus) wood has a density of about 750 kg/m³, great strength and hardness, and is very resistant to insect and fungal attack because of its high tannin content. It also has very attractive grain markings. |
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The peach tree (Prunus persica) is a species of Prunus. |
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Yellowish-brown wood type. Used for country furniture and for carving |
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Yellowish wood type. Used for cheaper furniture, doors, and building |
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This plentiful and inexpensive common hardwood is very light and easy to work, with an even texture.
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Rosewood is used in solid and veneer form for very high quality furniture and cabinetmaking because of it's attractiveness. |
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Satinwood can be polished to a high gloss. Satinwood is hard, fine-grained and durable with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in marquetry. |
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White with fleck. Used from the late seventeenth century as a veneer. Often found on sides or banding of marquetry furniture of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. There are two woods that are commonly called sycamore: 1. Platanus occidentalis i has rays. It is what we mean in the USA when we say "sycamore" 2. Acer pseudoplatanus It does NOT have the ray flakes associated with American sycamore. |
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Tectona Grandis of the family Verbenaceae Heavy and dense wood, oily nature with good carving properties used for shipbuilding, out-door building and furniture |
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Tulipwood is the yellowish greenish wood yielded from
the tuliptree |
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Walnut (genus Juglans)is tough, medium dense, tight-grained and polishes to a very smooth finish. The colour ranges from creamy white in the sapwood to a dark chocolate colour in the heartwood. Because of its colour and grain it is a prized furniture and carving wood. |
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White wood type, fine-grained and nearly devoid of figureused, used for inlay and marquetry work from sixteenth century |
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Zebrawood is a yellow brown heartwood, light sapwood with a dark contrasting grain which gives this wood its Zebra-like appearance. Easy to work with both hand and machine tools, can be sanded pretty easily. The color does not darken over time. |
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