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Mountain maple

Florida maple (Acer floridanum)

Florida maple

River cooba (Acacia stenophylla)

River cooba

Shirley's lancewood (Acacia shirleyi)

Shirley’s lancewood

Cooba (Acacia salicina)

Cooba

Mutenye (Guibourtia arnoldiana)

Mutenye

Spanish fir (Abies pinsapo)

Spanish fir

Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana)

Nordmann fir

Nikko fir (Abies homolepis)

Nikko fir

Spear wattle (Acacia rhodoxylon)

Spear wattle

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Separating Specific Woods

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  • Red Oak and White Oak
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Reference/For the Shop

  • Fraction and Metric Conversion Chart
  • BOOK: WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide
  • POSTER: Periodic Table of Wood
  • POSTER: Worldwide Woods: Ranked by Hardness
  • Wood Images for Desktop Backgrounds


Working with Wood

  • Drying Wood at Home
  • Finishing Exotic and Tropical Hardwoods
  • Gluing Oily Tropical Hardwoods
  • How to Turn a Bandsaw Bowl from a Board
  • Preventing Color Changes in Exotic Woods
  • Wood Finishes: What Works When


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