Native to the Pacific Northwest, Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia) is a hardwood. Which is fairly common in the Willamette Valley, can frequently be found in wetlands, floodplains and edges of…
Ask most woodworkers to name a few species of wood and they can rattle off oak, walnut, or teak in short order. These types of woods are very generic and…
Walk through the neighborhoods of Georgia, Louisiana, or Mississippi, or the Carolinas, for that matter, and you could no doubt encounter a water oak. It blends in. It grows fast.…
When you walk through an old forest in the eastern United States, you may see a tree that stands out from the rest. Its trunk is thick and strong. The…
There are trees… and then there are live oaks. Stand under one, and you immediately feel the difference. The branches stretch wide like open arms. The shade feels cool and…
Osage orange wood is one of those materials that quietly outperforms almost everything around it. It boasts high hardness, high durability, good natural resistance to rotting, and it burns hotter…
Walk into almost any furniture store today and you’ll probably see parawood — even if the label doesn’t say so. It might be called “rubberwood.” Sometimes it’s marketed as “Malaysian…
There’s is a reason why sandalwood has been loved for thousands of years. This fragrance is warm, creamy, slightly sweet, and grounding. It doesn’t strike you hard like many modern-day…
Walk through an old forest in the eastern United States and you might see a tree that looks like it’s wearing a rough, peeling coat. Long strips of bark curl…
If you walk through an oak-hickory forest in the eastern United States, you might be standing under a Mockernut Hickory tree and not even know it. It does not have…
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