Wood links (want's in your book marks) - Woodworking Talk

**Daren** · 12-22-2007, 10:07 AM

Do you have reference sites favorited for wood ID ? I do. I will add a couple here, feel free to post your own links. I am not interested in retail sites

, just reference/education.

Here is a great one (I think I have linked it before) this guy has went to major effort to compile 1000's of pictures of wood species. http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...indextotal.htm

Here is another. It is more tree related, but thats where lumber comes from

. For you woodworkers that may want to have your own lumber milled, this is a tree id link. You never know, the neighbor may be cutting down a tree that would make some great projects. I used this alot getting started milling, until I could id stuff from memory.http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/map/zonemap.cfm

Anyone else have any ? Not just wood id, but maybe wood properties/uses. This one has been linked here before (where I found it

) but we might as well put all the links in one place as a go to thread for research. A toxic wood list. http://www.mimf.com/archives/toxic.htm

woodman42 · 12-22-2007, 11:07 AM

Wow Daren, that Hobbit house site is pretty cool. He does have a load of different examples.
Here is my favorite educational site.
http://woodworkingtalk.com

Truly have learn alot from you guys thanks.

**Daren** · 12-23-2007, 12:48 PM

Here is another. Kinda text heavy, but there are some pictures (you have to click the links to see the images). Interesting read if you want to know more about figure in wood (curly, burls...), like possible causes and what to look for. http://www.ag.auburn.edu/aaes/commun...dex.html#intro

knotscott · 12-23-2007, 01:52 PM

Hobbit House is my fave...so many species, so many good pics...

**TexasTimbers** · 12-23-2007, 02:02 PM

I went to add hobitthouse to my favorites and got a popup that siad I had already added it. On 10/17.

JON BELL · 12-24-2007, 04:30 PM

Yeah,hobbithouse is great.That guy goes through lot of work.New pictures would be nice

Gilmmerwood is a good site.Thanks for the Alabama one!!joewoodworker.com has alot of veneer info.

Gerry KIERNAN · 12-25-2007, 04:14 PM

Thanks for the links Daren. Those are excellent. I didn't know that British Columbia had 138 species of trees.

Gerry

**TexasTimbers** · 12-26-2007, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Gerry KIERNAN

. . .I didn't know that British Columbia had 138 species of trees.

Gerry

I'm suprised it isn't more than that. We have more than that in my little ol county I would think.

**Daren** · 12-26-2007, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by TexasTimbers

I'm suprised it isn't more than that. We have more than that in my little ol county I would think.

I think we have than many species (subspecies) of OAK alone

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Rod Torgeson · 12-26-2007, 04:30 PM

Gilmer wood company in Portland, Oregon. Here is the link.

http://www.gilmerwood.com/

They have some pretty neat wood for turning.

Rod<---in Appleton, WA

Air Force 1 · 12-26-2007, 06:32 PM

Daren
That's some good sites, I just got into wood ID so they will help me a lot,THANKS

Joe

Air Force 1 · 12-26-2007, 06:37 PM

Rod
That glimerwood.com site is nice too,Thanks a lot for the info. Joe

Air Force 1 · 12-26-2007, 06:45 PM

Daren
I've got the leg's done on that Queen Anne highboy, they look better then Betty Graybill's leg, well almost. The weather is about to slow me down thought. Joe

**Daren** · 12-27-2007, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Air Force 1

they look better then Betty Graybill's leg,

You just dated yourself AF1

. I get the picture though, I am an old movie fan. Now if you would have said Audry Hepburn, I would have requested picture be posted immediately.

End Grain · 12-27-2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Air Force 1

Daren
...they look better then Betty Graybill's leg, well almost....

Glad you added the well almost there Joe. Betty's were truly defining.