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Fraxinus americana
Eastern USA
AKA: White Ash, Green Ash, Black Ash
| Ash, American | |
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Fraxinus americana |
White Ash is considered the all-American wood. Ash is very durable, coarse textured, and straight grained making it both flexible and shock resistant. It is the wood of choice for various products such as pool cues, oars and garden tool handles as well, and is also well known for use in baseball bats.
AKA: White Ash, Green Ash, Black Ash |
| Cedar, Eastern Red | |
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Juniperus virginiana |
Common to chests and closets, aromatic red cedar has a straight grain, fine texture and contains numerous knots and bark inclusions. Although called a "cedar", it's in fact not a cedar at all. Instead, the timber comes from a juniper. The oil and familiar scent make it very attractive and is said to repel moths.
AKA: Aromatic Cedar, Virginia Pencil Cedar |
| Cherry, American | |
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Prunus serotina |
As one of North America's finest and highly prized woods, Cherry is known as the wood that helped to develop the cabinet industry we have today. With its straight, fine grain, smooth texture and reddish heartwood color, it's one of the most desirable of all the hardwoods. Cherry is extremely stable and very beautiful when finished.
AKA: Black Cherry |
| Maple, Hard | |
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Hard Maple
Birdseye Maple
Curlly Maple Acer saccharinum |
Known for its clear, white sapwood, hard maple is a heavy, dense, and straight grained wood. It resists wear and abrasion and is commonly found as flooring in gymnasiums and bowling alleys. Distinctive features of the grain produce the famous birds-eye and curly figured woods. Interesting to note, birds-eye is caused by a growth defect in the tree; small conical depressions that appear toward the center of the tree and follow each year outward with the annual growth rings.
AKA: Rock Maple, Sugar Maple |
| Oak, Red | |
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Quercus rubra |
One of the most commonly known of all hardwood species, red oak makes for a useful and fairly inexpensive wood. This non-durable, straight-grained wood grows very fast, sometimes as much as a foot a year in some ecosystems. Outside of interior woodworking, red oak is used for hardwood flooring since it's fairly inexpensive and has a beautiful grain when finished.
AKA: Spanish Oak |
| Oak, White | |
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Quercus alba |
A versatile oak with many uses and qualities. This wood is straight-grained with a moderate coarse texture and a pale-yellow to brown color. It wears well and is resistant to exterior adversities. It produces some of the finest oak veneers and lumber while being easy to work with and bending easily. The most valuable aspect of white oak comes from its cells, which contain a honeycomb like substance called tyloses. This makes white oak watertight and thus great for boat building and ideal in making whiskey barrels.
AKA: Chestnut Oak |
| Walnut, Black | |
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Juglans nigra |
Black Walnut is sought after for its great beauty and toughness. It is fairly straight grained but can be wavy with a coarse texture and a dark brown to purplish black color. Its workability is good and it glues well while holding its bending properties. It accepts natural wood finishes extremely well and can be polished to a fine finish.
AKA: American Walnut |
| Yellow Poplar | |
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Liriodendron tulipifera |
Regarded as one of the more valuable hardwoods in the eastern United States, Yellow Popular or Whitewood is a soft, non-durable wood. It has a straight, fine-textured grain and is lightweight. One hour of exposure to summer sun can heavily darken this wood.
AKA: American Whitewood |
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