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With hardwoods the variety of colors, grain patterns, and textures are what makes them a very popular choice among woodworkers. This wood type can produce really beautiful pieces of furniture. The downside is cost. Many woodworking projects today use the more expensive hardwoods to accent their project rather than build the whole project out of an expensive hard to find hardwood type of wood.
Let's take a look at some of the more common hardwood types and their properties.
Ash:
This wood type is a pale to white colored wood with a straight grain. It does accept stain quite well and it is reasonably easy to work with. Ash is becoming increasingly harder and harder to find and as such is generally found at larger lumberyards.
Birch:
Yellow and white are the two varieties that this type of wood comes in. Birch is less expensive than other woods in the hardwood category. The white birch as its name suggests is a whiter colored wood that is closer in resemblance to maple. The wood is reasonably hard and has good availability.
Cherry:
Is a very popular wood type to work with. It easily stains and finishes and get more beautiful with age. Relatively speaking cherry is a softer hardwood type that is a very popular choice for furniture making. Price wise, because of the high demand, the cost of cherry is higher, but you should be able to find it at most lumberyards.
Mahogany:
This is another great furniture woods. Mahogany is also a bit of a softer hardwood and it produces beautiful furniture with its deep red tinting and straight grains. This wood type stains and finishes very well. Cost is prohibitive and the only place to find it is at a good lumberyard.
Maple:
The maple wood type actually comes is a soft and hard maple. In fact, the hard maple can be difficult to even work with. Soft maple is indeed easy to work with. Both stain out better than most of the woods. Cost is less expensive for this wood type and they are usually in good supply at a lumberyard.
Oak:
This is the wood type that most probably think of when it comes to furniture. Oak is strong yet easy to work with. Oak comes in a red and white variety and the grain produces beautiful patterns. White oak is the most commonly seen amongst furniture projects and you'll need to head to the lumberyard for white oak, while red oak is available at home centers.
Poplar:
This type of wood is one of the lower costing woods. Poplar is a softer hardwood which makes it much easier to work with. However, since polar isn't the most beautiful of the woods it isn't used much in furniture... unless perhaps it will be painted. Many wood workers will use poplar for the parts of the furniture piece that won't be visible such as the drawers.
Teak:
Is becoming harder and harder to find and as such is also becoming very expensive. This wood type is also moisture resistant and as such is used for outdoor projects. This wood type is medium as far as hardness.
Walnut:
Walnut is a rich brown wood that isn't too difficult to work with, but it is a bit hard to find and becoming more and more expensive. Even so, this is a great wood type to work with and is great to add accent and class to almost any project.
That wraps up our look at some of the most common hardwooods and a bit of info on each of them. So get out to your local lumberyard and take a look at some of these woods first hand and you really appreciate the beauty of the hardwoods.
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