Wood Handbook

[bob-t]

Someone gave me a copy of Wood Handbook published in 1955 by the government so I check for a more recent one.
It has everything I think you would ever want to know about wood and pictures.

https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publi...eader_id=p

click the view pdf on the first one.

Bob

[johndi]

Wow, thanks for the link. Quite a resource.

[MichaelMouse]

Wow, thanks for the link. Quite a resource.

I often post that reference.  Free (or at least prepaid).  If you have it, don't bother buying Hoadley.  He did the Handbook!

[hbmcc]

It's quite a resource! I printed my own copy when the company paid for paper and toner. Better than adulterated code books, and a library of bits and pieces with finer details.

[ianab]

Yup, there are people that spend their time in labs, measuring how different woods react as they dry out etc. They are Govt funded, and publish their results. Your Tax $$ at work etc.

Reading what they have already discovered saves a lot time and error for us plebs.