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WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide Hardcover – October 10, 2015

by Eric Meier (Author)
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Understanding Earth’s most fascinating natural resource: books about wood usually come from one of two very opposite poles: there are either craft-oriented books filled mainly with pretty pictures, but with very weak or vague data, or there are thinly veiled scientific books, filled with an over-abundance of data: burying the uninitiated in microscope images and confusing terminology. This book hopes to selectively bring together the best of both worlds: written from a craftsperson’s perspective, it also seeks to glean the wealth of scientific knowledge and bring it into practical reach for woodworkers everywhere. Over 350 woods covered. 100+ full-page profiles. 100+ half-page profiles for less-common woods. Guides for distinguishing lookalike woods. Detailed identification data and strength properties.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FGP9964
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Wood Database (October 10, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 098224603X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0982246030
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
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WOOD would be your Lumber Bible
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WOOD would be your Lumber Bible
Suburb book for people that work with wood. A book done right for beginner or master of wood makers. Uses Bold for industry words then defines them and if needed additional education. The Pictures are remarkable and as perfect a representation of the wood i have seen in a book. Loaded with useful info and numbers you can use in woodwork like Elasticity and rupture measurements. Too bad there isn't a list of what wood combinations look well together. The quality of information is outstanding and unmatched for woodworking. The physical construction of the book is heirloom quality. Hardcover reinforced, the pages are well bound to the spine and each page is quality paper with a good hand. I can't believe the quality make of the book and information. This will be the go to for those makers needing info about wood simply put there is not a book like this with the viewpoint of a woodworker. I have 8 books about wood now i use one. (FYI i have used his web site for this info)
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Richard C. Lotsch
5.0 out of 5 stars I consider this a bible for woodworkers
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
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Great resource to learn about wood from a woodworkers perspective. The color pictures are clear and detailed. As a woodworker, I consider this book a must-have resource for my woodworking library!
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Eli Marcus
5.0 out of 5 stars a must have reference book on wood!
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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Very well organized and thorough book on wood types , including strength charts and much more information that is useful for anyone working with wood, or just curious about different varieties of wood that are available in the world.
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Paul Hinds
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent new book about wood
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Eric Meier, who owns/runs The Wood Database web site has now published a really good wood book, called "Wood! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide".

It’s better than most of the other reference books I have. The introductory chapters about wood structure, etc, are REALLY good. He’s clearly put a lot of time, research, and thought into this and it shows. No book with just introductory chapters on wood characteristics will ever rival Hoadley’s “Understanding Wood”, but Eric's is better than most such sets of introductory chapters and it might be the best around. I haven’t read enough detail yet to be sure.

Another bit of good news is that he covers a lot of woods. I haven't counted them but the "Hundreds" in the title is not an exaggeration.

Like all books, its biggest drawback in being helpful for wood ID is that it has only one picture of each wood. As we all know, most woods don't really have a "representative" look that would help ID every piece of that wood. That's why my site has LOTS of pics of each wood.

Eric chose to use a full size image, so it is of necessity of a very modest sized area (about 4" square) of each sample. The good news about this is that it shows the graininess of the face quite well. The bad news is that it's too close up to give a good feel for what the a plank of the wood actually looks like. Eric has also included a picture for most of the more common woods of an object made using the wood, which helps.

His choice of pieces of each wood to photograph is good, his photography is excellent, and the color plates are good but do suffer pretty severely from the problem of darkening. I corresponded w/ Eric about this and he is frustrated by it. His original images were quite good and in the proof copy he approved they looked good on the page, but when they were printed on glossy paper, there was a lot of darkening. The affect of this on the accuracy of the wood color varies, but it's a problem in all such books.

A further advantage of this book is that Eric has images of, and discussions of, the end grain closeups that can be so important in doing wood identification. Sadly, the darkening of the pics is the worst on some of these, compounded by a loss of contrast/detail, to the point of making them not very useful. The end grain pics on his site are much better.

Like most such references that have end grain pics (the few that HAVE end grain pics) it suffers from the fact that it's not much help in identifying a wood unless you have a pretty good guess about what wood it is, or at least can narrow it down to a small number of possibilities. That's why on my site's anatomy pages I categorize the end grain pics so that you can use the characteristics of an unknown wood to target the search (for example, ring porous -> large rays -> parencyhama characteristics -> etc.). Hoadley has a decision tree that helps do the same thing.

Anyway, I consider this a great addition to my bookshelf. Eric said it took him 6 years to get it done and I believe it. It was time well spent. There's more good stuff I could go on about, but buy one and you'll see what I mean :smile:
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I’m looking forward to using this daily!
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
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Great book for beginners and experienced.
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Nezwin
4.0 out of 5 stars Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2015
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Superb book for those looking for a broad overview of a wide variety of wood.

The Good -

Excellent variety of wood types, including our native Australian timbers (Although I'm expecting more in the second edition...), with commentary on their best uses and/or specialty uses. Particularly useful for me as a bowmaker. The scientific data is useful and the pictures, in particular, are great to provide an idea of not only what the timber looks like, but to begin to understand the mechanical properties, too. The articles on different wood types and their appropriate usage tie in well with the data and the book treads a very fine line between informal, 'crafty' focus and scientific, 'formal' focus.

The Bad -

As mentioned above, I'm looking forward to a few more Aussie timbers in the next edition - the book isn't exhaustive, but is certainly a huge start on most of the timber species out there. The timbers are also sorted by their Latin names which, for those of us more familiar with the common names, can make finding specific timbers rather difficult. It would be good to have some lists or discussion on geographical grouping of certain timbers - this timber is common in N. America, rare in Asia, etc. There can also be comparison between species here - for instance, Yew is exceptionally rare in Australia but White Cypress Pine is very common, and shares many characteristics (as does Celery Top Pine, which is a very distant cousin to Yew). Some discussion on alternatives and/or woods with common characteristics would be great.

Conclusion -

For all my nit-picking, this is a great book. You can sit down and flick through, or you can really get into a heavy article, it's very flexible in how you approach it. The data is great, as is the brief discussion piece on uses of timbers accompanied by clear & consistent photographs.
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Tim
5.0 out of 5 stars A fun reference book to have
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
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This will have you examining the the grain of every board you work. A must have if you purchase rough or auction lumber.
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Michele-Marie von Bergen
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on wood I have ever seen
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2024
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I have worked with wood for over 70 years. this is the best book on wood types and I have tons of books. I use to sell wood for knife handles and small projects so i know about a lot about wood but this great author showed me how little i know lol. Get this book
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Charles Wolfe
5.0 out of 5 stars Great info.
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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A well done reference book for any woodworker.
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