V048 – CEDAR
Cedars are used in furniture making and were formerly also a popular wood for shipbuilding.
Its characteristics are light reddish wood that exudes a characteristic aromatic smell.
Mechanically, cedar can be easily worked by hand and by machine.
Planed surfaces have a slight sheen, but the tools quickly become blunt due to the resin content.
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V013 – EBONY BLACK
It is used in the craft of carvers and sculptors.
It is also very important as veneer and solid wood and in the construction of musical instruments
(e.g. wind, plucked, and string instruments).
In the veneer sector, Ebony is only used in the high-quality project, ship, and aircraft interior fittings
due to its extravagant beauty and high price.
Since each trunk has a different pattern, the products made with them are extremely individual and unique.
V018 – BIRDS EYE MAPLE
Tiny knots in the grain resemble small bird’s eyes.
The figure is reportedly caused by unfavorable growing conditions for the tree.
The tree attempts to start numerous new buds to get more sunlight, but with poor growing conditions the new shoots are aborted, and afterward, some tiny knots remain.
V032 – BEECH BACKING
Veneer wood has large dimensions compared to other European woods (60 cm diameter and more),
furniture and parquet wood, chipboard, excellent bending wood (seating furniture), well suited for workbenches, good construction wood.
One of the most common woods in Europe is produced as a veneer in steamed, white, and old white. Since the mid-1990s, beech has been a distinctly fashionable wood in the veneer and solid wood sector.