Wood Identifications Examples

How to Identify Wood one of the most asked questions! I recently did a video going through what I do to identify lumber in the shop. but today I want to look at a bunch of examples.

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[TyTy-fqmh]

Hey, i would definitely love for this topic to be expanded further! In depth demonstrations on each of the popular woods showing examples of their workability, what to expect when working with them, pros & cons, what sort of applications they might or might not be ideal for, and anything else you think could help aid in making a more informed choice when buying and using lumber that we’re not familiar with. A vid made by you about what to expect when buying lumber at a lumber yard/saw mill would be super awesome to. Thanks james, never stop making awesome videos!

[bunjininja]

Black walnut is my absolute favorite. It has a beautiful blonde to almost purple color to it at times. Tulip poplar is my second favorite. Its super bright in color. Takes staining in almost any variety you want. Not sappy like cedar or pine. Great video. Keep up the great work!

[stevebettany]

My wood is usually other people’s cast offs so quite often identification is hard these videos are really helpful even if you have some strange woods over there. Thank you.

[phildodd]

A great selection that you've exhibited in front of us, so that we can be in awe of them ! Possibly one of your subtle puns at the end "can't play with ebony" - but in Victorian times, apparently through to mid 20th century, everyone DID when piano keys were ebony and ( very grimly ) ivory ( bones of animals ). Great that you still had some of the Zebra to show us. Cherry and other woods in the UK, for those of us old enough, we saw a lot of those in the 1950s as our post-war train compartments were invariably fitted out with a multitude of such beautiful panels. Your delight in veneers would have been fulfilled in such circumstances ! Yes - a brilliant idea of yours to give us more detail from your earlier demonstration - a big help for us to identify and even search out some of these woods ! Thank you !

[mastiffmom]

That live edge on the red oak is absolutely stunning! Oh, there’s more than one live edge piece. I would love to have some of that. It’s probably my most favorite part of wood.

[orellinvvardengra]

I just watched this and your other wood identification video. I've collected some free pieces over some time but am only sure of one of them and that was from my wife's grandmothers tree. A nice log of maple, nothing large. These other pieces I picked up I'm not entirely sure of. I have a strong feeling that it will be some sort of pine though as I live in Washington.
Thank you for another amazing video, I look forward to learning some more!

[danceswithaardvarks]

Yes very helpful. I salvage a lot of antique wood, so identification is often difficult.

[markharris]

I have heck of a long way to go, I ask the guy at the timber merchants who is thankfully very trustworthy. A very interesting pair of videos, I’m sure I will refer back to them more than once. Thank you James

[drawlele]

Not going to lie the only two woods I have enough experience with are live oak and cedar, during my time in north Florida that was all that was readily available to me so I spent lots of time working g with them. I do enjoy the wild crazy grain in live oak to the point where it might be my favorite wood. Cedar is another one of those woods that is very easy to work with and makes great for practice if you got it for free. My problems with wood identification stem from a want to match the antiques I restore perfectly so that the pieces I have to replace or fabricate completely do not stand out in any way whatsoever I'm thi king it may be better to match with color then stain and blend very well. Great video I cant wait to start working with more woods and I do agree the sap wood mixed with the heart wood on black walnut is just awesome, biggest reason I watch Out Of The Woods on here on youtube that's one of the woods that man has in abundance and happens to be his favorite to saw up into slabs.

[krokodyl]

I'm glad you put it out. Maybe you could go through the wood again (at least some) and mention typical use for the different wood and type of project it could be made of.

[jamesroush]

I'm pretty familiar with the domestic woods so seeing exotics and hearing how they work is really cool

[jonnybooks]

glad you decided to go ahead & run with this one.

[benfox]

great video! the varierty of woods never ceases to amaze me. I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the different smells though! I could identify pine, walnut, sapele, padauk and ebony blindfolded from scent alone! hard to describe in text though...!

[VinSpacker]

Great content! Can you please straighten your background picture frames on the wall? OCD me lol

[hughfryer]

A note on Ipe. When I was a carpenter, we built a 1200 sf deck of Ipe. It ate up every type of blade we put to it. I also recommend wearing a mask when cutting it due to the high silica content. Same for teak.

[sebcsaba]

Thanks for sharing this additional video :)
Unfortunately, lot of the information is mostly useless for me in middle of Europe, as we have slightly different type of wood available here. But the previous one video, with the concepts of identification, are really helpful. Thanks!

[woodfun]

Thank you, this is is one of the most interesting topics in woodworking. Could you show your examples closer next time, please. Also, different woods have different smeels :)

[Sawdust]

Very helpful video. Just an FYI from a wood anatomist. The phrase "medullary rays" is no longer used. Again, well produced video.

[duanethepirate]

Great video, FYI on the Red Oak. I know that species will grow different in different areas, here in Arkansas Red Oaks get huge, I have one in the back yard thats easily 4 feet in diameter and last year two on the end of my house blew over and both of those were 30 inches in diameter. I got a 10 foot log from one and some 3 foot pieces from the other but it had a lot of rot in it.

[islandwills]

I must have 100 different species of wood I work with and I still sometimes struggle with red and white oak.

I also find it crazy how diverse each species can be. For example one piece of walnut can look completely different from another so much so you would swear they are different species