You may at some point want, out of passion or necessity, to make certain pieces of furniture, interior design elements or variouswoodwork smaller or larger. Your creative impulse might push you to pick up the first piece of wood you find and find it's not right for your project.
The properties of wood differ from one type of wood to another. Wood used to make beds or outdoor furniture needs to be harder and stronger than wood used to make smaller decorative objects. It is interesting and useful to know a few names from the large family Wood. We have chosen a few local personalities, as well as some "ex-pats".
Wood species are divided into two types - hard/hardwood and soft/softwood. Let's look at some hardwood species, some hard and heavy, others flexible enough to be bent.
HARDWOOD SPECIES / have high strength and durability / are chosen for structural elements in construction, flooring, cladding, stairs, indoors and outdoors
FAGULis a widely used species in Europe. Its colour is a pale cream with pink or brown highlights and it has a medium natural lustre. It has hardness, wear resistance and excellent steam bending. It is machined and finished well. It is widely used for lumber, flooring, veneer, furniture, plywood. Children's furniture is generally made of beech.
NUCLEhas a fine texture and is strong and easy to work with. The colour ranges from light to dark shades of brown. It resists shrinkage and bowing and lends itself to all types of finishes. It is one of the finest hardwoods. It combines well with other wood species, but also with other natural materials providing a friendly atmosphere, even in austere interiors. It is mainly used for solid wood and veneered furniture, cabinets, flooring, doors, for panelling (wall cladding), casing (ceiling cladding) and architectural elements.
STEJARULis very durable and has good bending qualities. It finishes well and resists moisture absorption being used in outdoor projects. Oak is suitable for mobile, wooden desks, flooring and barrels.
FRASINULhas texture and properties almost similar to oak, but a lighter colour. Ash wood has the ability to absorb shocks. It is easy to process and finish.
THE ARTHURis a smooth and even-textured wood, and ranges in colour from light cream to reddish brown. It is hard, stiff and very heavy. With moderate shrinkage, maple machines well, although it is hard. It has excellent abrasion and shock resistance, and is more commonly used for flooring, countertops, musical instruments, fine furniture, and bowling lanes.
CHERRY is a wood with pores, like all hardwoods, but these are small. It resists shrinkage and bending equally well. Over time it has low durability and is prone to insect attack. When freshly cut it has a pinkish-brown colour that turns reddish-brown when exposed to the sun. It ages beautifully but degrades quickly and is used for solid wood furniture, musical instruments, carvings, toys.
MAHONULis a delicately textured reddish-brown wood with a slight purple tinge. It is extremely durable and can resist swelling, shrinking and bending. This type of wood is used for quality furniture, cabinets, interior trim, boat building, cladding and veneering.
TEAK-ul is tough and moisture resistant. It has a generally uneven texture, a medium gloss and an oily tuft. It has medium hardness and weight, excellent resistance to degradation and dimensional stability. At finish adhesion difficulties may be encountered due to the natural oils it contains. It has many uses, including in shipbuilding - especially for decks. It is used for indoor and outdoor furniture, flooring, panelling, wainscoting, veneer, plywood, sculpture.
It is important that the choice of wood is made carefully because it would be demanding and ultimately even discouraging to find that the wood you choose is more trouble than it is worth. Oil and wax to enhance the texture of objects created with these woods can be found at good prices on Market.Market.
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I can't find anything about exotic essences such as ocho, copaiybo.Where can I find information about these species?
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Hello! I would like to know which is the most suitable wood for beds, it must be shock resistant and 80-120 kg weight. If you can inform me it would help me enormously. Thank you!
And not to be very hard
And don't crack when I thread the screws
Good evening.
Beds can be made of both hardwoods (oak, beech, ash, walnut, fir, acacia, cherry) and softwoods (fir, spruce, lime, maple). What is important is how the bed is made, how its component parts are calculated. If the legs or frame of the bed are made of very thin wood, it will not last. The joints also matter. Most woods can be used to build beds. The only thing is that it is well made so that it does not break under 120 kg.
All the best!
Now I see the other messages. To keep it light you can make the bed out of spruce (most of our softwoods are spruce), lime or poplar. They are hardy species and don't crack easily. But the wood must be well dried (8-12% humidity) and the timber must be free of defects (cracks, knots, growth defects, rot).
Good luck!
Hi. About elm wood. Doesn't it belong to the hardwood category?
Hello.
More information about elm wood can be found in the link below.
All the best!
https://revistadinlemn.ro/2017/11/28/ulmul-un-lemn-frumos-elastic-si-dur/
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What about paltin do we find? I'm interested in a comparison between ash and palms? I understand that the ash does not blacken in high water/humidity as the oak does.
Hello!
You can find information about hawthorn and ash in the links below.
All the best!
https://revistadinlemn.ro/2016/10/19/luciul-de-matase-al-lemnului-de-paltin/
https://revistadinlemn.ro/2018/01/19/lemnul-de-frasin/
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Please let me know if dark red meranti is ok for the interior staircase. What kind of wood is it?
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Good evening, I would like to help me pritr an information, I have beech wood flooring reddish shades and I want to scrape and change the color to something more uniform possibly light can you tell me how and with what?
Hello!
Beech wood has this reddish tinge, especially when steamed. Even if you scrape it, you won't get a very light colour (like ash, for example).
You can open up the colour by bathing the wood with a diluted semi-transparent white bath. It will open the colour and the wood will still be visible.
Use a solvent-based water-based or acrylic varnish for coating. These varnishes change the colour of the wood very little (they do not yellow).
All the best!
What wood species would you recommend for support posts for an outdoor patio or porch on a house?
Good evening.
You can use poles of acacia, oak, beech or softwood (spruce, larch). But the most stable are those made of laminated beams. They are made of several layers of resinous wood (there may be other types, but spruce is the most common). These poles have no problems with dimensional variations due to humidity in the atmosphere and do not crack.
All the best!
Thank you very kindly. So, indicated would be to look for laminated timber rubble beams.
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I would. They are much more stable and durable.
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Please, some advice on what kind of wood to use for support posts on an outdoor patio or porch at a house
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Hi,
the information is very useful.
Please give me a source for dry hardwoods
What is the wood that after aging turns as light a shade of grey as possible?