World Woods in Color

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Summary: Excellent full color domestic & import wood reference guide
Review: This book is an easy refernce guide to use, especially from a specie identification standpoint. If you sell wood or wood products, the cross referencing of botanical names with common names is made very easy in this guide, especially because the names are cross refenced with full color photographs! An indespensible tool! Couple that with the immense amount of technical information regarding each individual specie, from steam bending properties to carving and cutting outcomes, and this book would almost become necessary in every wood shop. Use this excellent reference guide with caution around customers and potential recipients of your work, the great, full color photos in this book will make it difficult to settle on the right wood for your project!

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Summary: Addendum
Review: To prospective buyers it may be helpful to know that this is a British book: the selection of names is heavily influenced by this. For example "lacewood" is given here in the literal sense, as quartersawn wood of a species with high rays, with a "lacy" ray fleck, originally Platanus spp. Later (although the book omits to mention this) the woods of the Proteaceae (both the Australian silky oaks and the South American roupala) were also so used. The American use of "lacewood" for the Australian silky oaks, however sawn, is somewhat of a misnomer.

Rating:
Summary: Addendum
Review: To prospective buyers it may be helpful to know that this is a British book: the selection of names is heavily influenced by this. For example "lacewood" is given here in the literal sense, as quartersawn wood of a species with high rays, with a "lacy" ray fleck, originally Platanus spp. Later (although the book omits to mention this) the woods of the Proteaceae (both the Australian silky oaks and the South American roupala) were also so used. The American use of "lacewood" for the Australian silky oaks, however sawn, is somewhat of a misnomer.