Whitebeam - Wood Species
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Working properties:
Rather hard to saw, it will dull the tools quite fast, but then what else would you expect from one of the hardest woods of the Northern hemisphere? It generates a very smooth cut, but the white sapwood is prone to predisposed to burn marks. Whitebeam sands very well and polishes almost glass-like smooth. It tends to splint, so pre-drilling screw and nail holes is a big must.
Trivia:
Due to its high mineral content, whitebeam is such terrible firewood it gained the reputation of “the wood that doesn’t burn”. This flaw, however, turned out to be a sought-after quality owing to which, whitebeam came to be extensively used in the past to mark boundaries throughout the Europe’s countryside. Its bright-red berries hanging on branches all winter long would make it visible from the distance and, at the same time, no drifters in their right mind would ever attempt to cut it down to light their campfire.
Whitebeam wood texture sample
