Hardwood |
| Aromatic Red Cedar |
| Aromatic red cedar possesses a unique scent which has endeared itself to millions who are the proud owners of a handsome cedar chest or a cedar lined closet. Except for novelty furniture and wall paneling, these are almost the only uses for the wood in lumber form. Some cedar goes into pencil slats, and the sawdust is distilled for its aromatic oils. |
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| White ash is the best known and most useful member of the ash family. Its wood is hard and heavy, strong in comparison to weight, and able to resist a succession of shocks that would destroy some woods of equal or greater density. Used for ball bats, hockey sticks, tool handles, agricultural implements and oars. Popular for food containers because the wood has no taste. |
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| Aspen |
| Aspen is an important pulpwood, supplying much of our book paper. As lumber, it is almost entirely a utilitarian material. Only about 2% of the aspen stand grows to be timber size. The best aspen lumber tends to be without distinctive grain or figure and lacks the characteristics generally regarded as decorative. Aspen paints well and is frequently substituted for basswood in cabinetry work. |
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| Basswood, sometimes called linn, is a member of the linden family. Well suited for such technical uses as beehives and honey sections, drawing boards, picture frame mouldings, woodenware, toys, wood novelties and other objects requiring a clean looking, attractive wood of light weight and color. Suitable for food containers because it is odorless and tasteless. In recent years, aspen has become a popular substitute for basswood. |
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| Birch is especially popular for furniture, fixtures, fine cabinets, flooring, doors, and interior trim. Although sometimes available as "selected white birch" and "selected red birch", most users prefer unselected birch, which contains both heartwood and sapwood. Birch is the most popular of the decorative woods available in plywood form. |
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| Cherry is considered a premier American cabinet wood, ranking second only to walnut. Ordinarily, cherry may be identified by the appearance of occasional "gum spots". The wood from any of our fruit trees is sometimes called "fruitwood". As a rule, this term implied cherry. |
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| Elm |
| American Elm is used in the manufacture of baskets, especially for rims and bent handles. Used also for vehicle parts and frames, agricultural implements, special types of furniture, plywood, and for other purposes requiring a decorative wood. |
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| Hard Maple |
| The excellent technical properties of hard maple make it suitable for a wide range of industrial uses. It is the leading wood for flooring in residences, schools, skating rinks, bowling alleys and shops because of its superior wearing quality. Well made hard maple furniture should outlast the owner while serving both the aesthetic and practical purposes. |
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| Hickory (Kiln & air dried) |
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| Myrtle |
| This tree is quite large when mature and is found along streams in southwestern Oregon. The timber is highly esteemed for furniture. Burls and gnarly trunks are sliced for veneers and usually marketed as Oregon myrtle. |
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| Padauk |
| Padauk is also commonly known as vermillion. It is one of the truly beautiful woods of the world. Generally course texture with interlocking grain. Rosy to crimson red in color with contrasting streaks; the variety from Africa is almost entirely red. |
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| Red Alder |
| Red alder is good utility furniture wood. Exposed parts stain to blend with walnut, mahogany, or cherry veneers. Highly prized for upholstery framing because of its stability and superior tack holding capability. |
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Soft Maple |
| The furniture industry consumes large quantities of soft maple, much of it in medium priced "colonial" maple furniture. Lower grades go into boxes, crates, and other shipping containers. Odorless and tasteless, it is suitable for food containers. Other uses include coin operated machines, truck body and trailer parts. Lacks the strength and resistance of hard maple. |
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Oak, Red and White |
| The oaks comprise the most important group of hardwood timber in the United States. None is better known or more widely used. There are many seperate species cut and marketed as oak lumber. Oak lumber is sold as either red oak or white oak, with no attempt to seperate or identify the different species. |
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Exotic |
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| Found in Brazil, Peru, Surinam, Panama, and Venezuela, this bright red and yellow variegated wood has a satiny luster and is obtainable only in small logs. It is used for violin bows and fine furniture. |
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| Bubinga |
| A flat cabinet wood closely related to benge, another rare and beautiful wood from Africa's Ivory Coast. Overall color, after some exposure is a deep, opulent-looking red, sometimes displaying fine, evenly spaced lines of darker hue. Also used as a decorative plywood. |
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| Ebony |
| Black Ebony, whose other common names include Indian Ebony and East Indian Ebony, is found throughout the Indo-Malaysian area. Trees often grow only 50' in height with trunk diameters of 1' to 2'. The wood has a uniform jet black color with a yellowish white sapwood. |
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| A large tree found from Bolivia to Mexico, Jatoba is commercially valued for the resin-like gum extruded from its bark. This gum, called copal, is used for varnish manufacture, medicinal purposes and cement for repairing broken crockery. Jatoba lumber is used principally for furniture, tool handles, and flooring. |
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| Kingwood |
| Also called violetwood and voilete, this little tree is found principally in Brazil. The timber is so small that the wood used chiefly for inlays, marquetry, small turnings, etc. The wood differs from rosewood in both graining and color. |
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| An unusually fine textured, lustrous specic, Koa is the best known and most highly prized of Hawaii's hardwoods. Valueable for musical instruments because of its resonant qualities, it is the wood in Hawaiian ukeleles. Used locally in Hawaiian woodenware. |
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| Lacewood |
| An Australian import, this wood is occasionally seen in decorative overlays on furniture and in wall paneling. It is also called selano and silky oak, although not related to the oak family. |
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| Spanish Cedar |
| Spanish cedar is delightfully aromatic. Unfortunately, its aromatic oil is a gum-like substance which has the tendency of clouding the surface when fine finishes are applied to it. For best results in a natural finish, we recommend using a sealer and then a varnish. |
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Softwood |
| Cedar, Western red and Aromatic |
| Alaskan or yellow cedar is a rather large tree, up to six feet in diameter and 120 feet high. Seldom seen in American markets, consumption being largely local, where it is used for furniture, interior millwork and in small boat construction. Like other cedars, the wood is light, straight-grained, easy to work and durable. Western red cedar is known to all as the leading shingle wood of the United States and it ideally adapted to that purpose. It is light in weight, remarkably durable under exposure to rain and sun, heat and cold. The wood stains well for exterior purposes; machines and seasons readily. |
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| Clear Douglas Fir |
| The Douglas Fir is one of our most valuable timber trees. The interior areas produce small timber with harder wood, red in color, and inclined to be cross-grained and knotty, but durable. Some clear lumber is produced, but it is used mostly for timbers and crossties. |
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| Southern Yellow Pine |
| It would be difficult to commercially overestimate the value of the yellow pine. It is the source of naval stores and pulpwood and the timber provides one of the best utility woods. Uses of yellow pine lumber are extremely varied, but the bulk is employed in the building industry. Smaller amounts are fabricated into almost every article which can be produced in wood. Often yellow pine is used where some other wood would do a better job, simply because it is readily available and relatively inexpensive. Much reforestation is done with the yellow pines to insure continued supply. |
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| Sugar Pine, the largest of our pine trees, is one of the true white pines and often a considerable degree of durability when exposed to decay. |
