What is Your Favorite Wood?

[Exquisitor]

What is Your Favorite Wood?

I refinished furniture in my schooldays and we saw a lot of different kinds of woods, do you have any favorites?

 

[MamboDervish]

What is Your Favorite Wood?

I refinished furniture in my schooldays and we saw a lot of different kinds of woods, do you have any favorites?

Black walnut.

 

[Rumpelstil]

A pity you did not include the larch

 

[Lisa]

It depends on what i am doing with it,. Furniture, building, flooring or smoking?

 

[ataraxia]

What is Your Favorite Wood?

I refinished furniture in my schooldays and we saw a lot of different kinds of woods, do you have any favorites?

Depends what you want it for: building a house? A chest to store winter clothes? Firewood? Making a guitar or violin? Smoking food? Wood sculptures? Making a pencil? etc...

 

[DCCougar]

What is Your Favorite Wood?

I have several acoustic guitars -- Guilds and a Gibson. Sitka spruce tops, rosewood back and sides, preferably ebony fretboard.

 

[Emily L]

Exquistitor, I don't know the name of it, but my favorite kind of wood is that bamboo-looking wood that is used in rattan furniture (not wicker), including the smooth, light-colored wood that is sometimes included with it (for the table-tops and cabinets).

 

[Moon]

No option for Morning.

Seriously, I like Cherry and Rosewood for a finished product. Oak is nice, but it’s kind of overdone.

 

[Demon]

Cedar smells so good. That's what I voted for.

 

[ataraxia]

I have several acoustic guitars -- Guilds and a Gibson. Sitka spruce tops, rosewood back and sides, preferably ebony fretboard.

In the early 18th century, there was an Italian violin-maker by the name of Antonio Stradivari who made some violins which became fabled for their beautiful sound and projection. They have been likened to the sound of angels singing. World-famous violinists to this day play on them, and they sell for tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars.

Scientists have been fascinated by what made these instruments sound so good. Good craftsmanship obviously had something to do with it. But these things have been looked at in every possible way: from laser interferometry of the sound waves they produce to electron microscopy of the wood fibers used in them.

One of the ideas which has emerged from these observations is that in Italy, and especially in the area of Cremona, at the time Stradivari was working, there was a mini-ice age, and the tree rings had gotten very compact. I thought that was fascinating!

 

[Exquisitor]

No option for Morning.

Seriously, I like Cherry and Rosewood for a finished product. Oak is nice, but it’s kind of overdone.

Oak is one of the densest, strongest woods, straight and knotted, not like elm or ironwood that are all twisted and hard to split.

 

[Exquisitor]

It depends on what i am doing with it,. Furniture, building, flooring or smoking?

Depends what you want it for: building a house? A chest to store winter clothes? Firewood? Making a guitar or violin? Smoking food? Wood sculptures? Making a pencil? etc...

I was thinking, of if you were sanding a piece, what is your favorite of wood to sand?

 

[Lisa]

I was thinking, of if you were sanding a piece, what is your favorite kind of dust?

Maple, apple and cedar smell the best.

 

[Moon]

Oak is one of the densest, strongest woods, straight and knotted, not like elm or ironwood that are all twisted and hard to split.

I agree. I was talking more about oak as the finish.

 

[ataraxia]

I was thinking, of if you were sanding a piece, what is your favorite kind of dust?

Hmmm... hard to say. I kinda like the smell in the wood section of Home Depot. What is that?

 

[Lisa]

Hmmm... hard to say. I kinda like the smell in the wood section of Home Depot. What is that?

Usually pine or fir because that is what dimensional lumber is.

 

[Exquisitor]

Maple, apple and cedar smell the best.

I also meant as a piece of furniture, or piece of wood to touch or admire.

Depends what you want it for: building a house? A chest to store winter clothes? Firewood? Making a guitar or violin? Smoking food? Wood sculptures? Making a pencil? etc...

 

[Exquisitor]

Hmmm... hard to say. I kinda like the smell in the wood section of Home Depot. What is that?

Mostly pine.

 

[Rexedgar]

Walnut and purple heart

Purple Heart is very attractive, but hard as a brick

 

[Rexedgar]

There’s always morning wood……….

 

[Port & Starboard]

Oak and Maple.

I restore old hand planes as a hobby every now and then.

 

[beefheart]

Morning wood...the best.

 

[nvflash]

Morning wood.

 

[Rexedgar]

Oak and Maple.

I restore old hand planes as a hobby every now and then.

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Maple is one of the most boring woods, it’s just white, very little grain.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Morning wood...the best.

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