Pine, Lodgepole

Pine Lodgepole
Pine, Lodgepole
by TDUK|04 September 22
A pale yellowish-coloured timber, soft, straight-grained, with a fine, fairly even texture, weighing about 470 kg/m3 when dried. Although on account of its size it does not produce much high-grade timber, it yields a good grade of wood with small, tight knots.
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Pine Canadian red
Pine, Canadian red
by TDUK|04 September 22
The tree receives its name from the colour of its bark which is a distinctive reddish-brown, the timber resembling European redwood (P. sylvestris). The sapwood is wide, often 75mm, of a pale yellow colour, the heartwood being pale brown with a reddish tinge to reddish-yellow, with a straight grain and...
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Oak american white
Oak, American white
by TDUK|04 September 22
Although generally resembling European oak, American white oak is more variable in colour, ranging from pale yellow-brown to pale reddish-brown, often with a pinkish tint. The multi-seriate rays are generally higher than those of the red oaks producing a more prominent and attractive silver-grain figure on quarter-sawn surfaces. The grain...
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Maple Soft
Maple, Soft
by TDUK|04 September 22
Soft maple is straight-grained and fine textured. The heartwood is light reddish-brown with deeper-coloured late-wood bands. The sapwood is white in colour, and furnishes the white maple prized for certain uses. It differs mainly from the hard maples in its lower density and softer texture.
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Maple
Maple, Rock
by TDUK|04 September 22
Hard maple is strong, heavy, hard, straight-grained and fine textured. The heartwood is light reddish-brown with deeper-coloured late-wood bands. The sapwood is white in colour, and furnishes the white maple prized for certain uses. It differs mainly from the soft maples in its greater density and firmer texture.
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Lime
Lime, European
by TDUK|04 September 22
There is no distinction by colour between sapwood and heartwood, the wood being pale yellowish-white when freshly cut, turning to pale brown when dried. It is a soft, compact wood, with a fine, uniform texture, and a straight grain. It weighs about 560 kg/m3 when dried.
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Koto
Koto
by TDUK|04 September 22
There is no distinction between the sapwood and heartwood and the timber is cream in colour, sometimes with a greyish tint. The texture is coarse and the grain interlocked.
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Kempas
Kempas
by TDUK|04 September 22
The sapwood is well defined, white to pale yellow in colour, and about 50mm wide in large trees. The heartwood is brick-red when freshly sawn, weathering to orange-red speckled by veins of hard, stone-like tissue, usually about 6mm wide, and may extend for one metre or more in the direction...
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Jelutong
Jelutong
by TDUK|04 September 22
The sapwood and heartwood are not differentiated by colour. The wood is creamy-white when first cut turning a pale straw colour after exposure. The planed wood is lustrous or very lustrous, without any figure, but slit-like radial passages may be seen on tangential surfaces as lens-shaped bodies. These are latex...
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Elm
Elm, White
by TDUK|04 September 22
The heartwood is pale reddish-brown in colour, and the sapwood is paler. The wood is strong and tough, and has good bending properties. The grain is usually straight, but occasionally is interlocked, and the texture is coarse, and inclined to be woolly.
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