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Hi,
I am fairly new to wood working and have had limited experience at it. Nevertheless the woods I have used are from the local home center.
I recently purchased some assortment boxes of wood cutoffs and having hard time identifying. For this and the future I was curious if anyone could suggest some good book(s) that would help in identifying wood.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ed
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This is better than any book.
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Check out the books by Bruce Hoadley -
https://www.amazon.com/Identifying-Wood-...0942391047
He has several I think you'd find useful. You might find them at a library and save a few bucks.
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I have the Wood Database book, but never use it. It's useful as a general reference.
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(04-20-2017, 12:50 PM)Phil S. Wrote: Check out the books by Bruce Hoadley -
https://www.amazon.com/Identifying-Wood-...0942391047
He has several I think you'd find useful. You might find them at a library and save a few bucks.
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04-22-2017, 11:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-22-2017, 02:05 PM by Paul-in-Plymouth.)
Bruce Hoadley's book
Identifying Wood, already mentioned, gives systematic keys for identifying an unknown piece of wood mostly based on characteristics readily visible with a 10x hand lens. This is the best resource I know for ID-ing wood of North American trees. HIs coverage of exotic woods is also authoratative, but less complete.
One difficulty of getting into Hoadley’s book is simply the large amount of information. For an introduction to vocabulary and concepts, the sections in the
Wood Database, also already noted, dealing with wood identification, wood anatomy, etc. might give a good entry point before diving into Hoadley. Plus, it's online. It does not have the systematic keys to identification of Hoadley, however.
http://www.wood-database.com
or hardcopy,
https://www.amazon.com/Identifying-Using...d+database
Both Hoadley and the
Wood Database contain nice photographs. You might like two other online sources of photos: Hobbit House has a vast collection, many at high-resolution, showing within-species variability; Romeyn B. Hough’s classic photo collection is also available on the North Carolina State University website.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollectio...art_I.html
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/
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Ed welcome to WoodNet.
Already mentioned is the wood database, a great free online resource with plenty of info about the woods you are looking at.
For more info on looks I like
Hobbitt House find your wood by name, and see a number of pictures of the species, also a freebie.
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