Ash Hardwood Database

Ash is a light colored smooth grained hardwood that grows throughout the east coast and parts of canada.

Ash hardwood database.

When stained ash can look very similar to oak quercus spp although oaks have much wider rays which are visible on all wood surfaces even on flatsawn surfaces where they appear as short thin brown lines between the growth rings. For sequence similarity with nucleotide or protein sequences in our database. Perhaps the most common ash look alike is sassafras sassafras albidum. It s one of the most durable varieties and has an extensive history in american furniture making.

When viewed from the face grain the wood bears a strong resemblance to black ash closely matching its color and grain pattern. The term olive ash does not refer to any specific species of ash fraxinus genus but instead is in reference to the darker streaked heartwood found in some ash trees which tends to resemble the wood of olive trees in the olea genus and it should come as little surprise that olive ash can be a dead ringer for actual olive with the exception of the porous grain structure which gives its. This lack of density is favored for use in electric guitar bodies and the term swamp ash is used loosely to describe pieces of ash that have low densities and good acoustic properties black ash is commonly used in basket weaving. Green ash and black ash trees are preferentially attacked by the insects followed by white ash and blue ash.

Green ash has excellent shock resistance and along with hickory carya spp it is one of the most commonly used hardwoods for tool handles in north america particularly in shovels and hammers where toughness and impact resistance is important. White ash has excellent shock resistance and along with hickory carya spp it is one of the most commonly used hardwoods for tool handles in north america particularly in shovels and hammers where toughness and impact resistance. Even its light weight 31 lbs ft 3 average closely matches the density of black ash 34 lbs ft 3 average. European ash has fairly good strength properties for its weight and is also shock resistant.

I m slowly grinding my way through roughly 800 wood species that have still yet to be listed on the site. The hardwood genomics project hosts genomes transcriptomes and annotations for forest trees and other angiosperm woody plant species. It dries fairly easily with minimal degrade and there is little movement in performance. Ash machines well is good in nailing screwing and gluing and can be stained to a very good finish.

I m working my way alphabetically by botanical name so check out the latest added wood to see where i m at in the queue.