Eric

• How the project got started
• Contributors
• Contact

• Wood Filter tool
• Browse Woods (by common name)
• Browse Woods (by scientific name)

• Wood Identification Guide
• The Truth Behind Wood Identification
• Hardwood Anatomy
• Softwood Anatomy
• Common US Hardwoods
• Fluorescence: A Secret Weapon in Wood Identification

• Ash Wood: Black, White, and Everything in Between
• Brazilian Rosewood, East Indian, and Other Rosewoods
• Cedar Confusion
• Elm Wood: Hard and Soft
• Genuine Lignum Vitae and Argentine Lignum Vitae
• Hard Maple and Soft Maple
• Mahogany Mixups: the Lowdown
• Pine Wood: An Overall Guide
• Poplar, Cottonwood, and Aspen: What’s What?
• Red Oak and White Oak
• Sorting Out Satinwoods
• Spruce and Other Lookalikes
• True Hickory and Pecan Hickory

Wood Info & Stats

• Are Rosewoods (and Bubinga) really banned by CITES?
• Ebony: Dark Outlook for Dark Woods?
• Halo Woods (and Shady Naming Practices)
• How Wood is Formed in Trees
• Restricted and Endangered Wood Species
• State Trees of the United States
• The Ten Best Woods You’ve Never Heard Of
• Top Ten Most Overrated Woods

Mechanical Properties

• Bow Woods (from a mathematical perspective)
• Top Ten Hardest Woods
• Top Ten Heaviest Woods
• Top Ten Softest Woods
• World’s Strongest Woods

• Wood Allergies and Toxicity
• Wood Dust Safety

• Drying Wood at Home
• Finishing Exotic and Tropical Hardwoods
• Four Common Finishing Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
• Gluing Oily Tropical Hardwoods
• How to Turn a Bandsaw Bowl from a Board
• Preventing Color Changes in Exotic Woods
• Wood and Moisture
• Wood Finishes: What Works When
• Working with Obscure or Unknown Woods

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The specific links on this site are affiliate links (as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) and help support the site at no extra cost to you.

Donating wood samples and pictures of wood items
If you’ve got a new or unusual wood species that isn’t on the site, please consider sharing it with the rest of us! I’m also interested in getting photos of completed wood projects—especially of obscure or lesser known woods. See my page on donating wood samples for more info. 

Support me directly through Patreon
If you’ve been helped by the Wood Database, consider saying “thanks” and helping to support the project. There is of course no obligation, but if you’d like to give back and ensure that the project continues to grow, consider supporting me on Patreon.