With a naked eye or microscope you will be able to identify 180 hardwoods, softwoods amd tropical woods by following the straightforward techniques described in this text.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Identifying Wood (Hardcover)
I've had this book for almost 2 years and it is the best I've seen. It is very well written and very thorough. It begins with an explanation of the structure of wood at the cellular level, in some cases, in rather great depth. There are chapters on techinques for obtaining and preparing wood samples as well as a description of some of the necessary instruments (hand lens, microscope etc). The sections on identification are divided up into softwoods, hardwoods and tropical woods. I will agree that the section on tropical woods is not as deep as the other two sections, but I would say its in proportion to the chances of you happening up on a piece of rare tropical wood and having to identify it. I have sucessfully indentified dozens of woods using this book. Be advised that a microscope is definately needed when using this book, in my humble opinion. It doesnt have to be a megabuck model, but 100-250x would be very helpful. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to go beyond the "if its brown, its walnut, if its white its maple" level, and get deeper into wood identification. ID-ing a chunk of wood is very satisfying and this book makes it possible!
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent! Full of information and pictures.,
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If you're interested in trees and identifying wood this is the book for you. The book starts with tree structure and moves on to characteristics of various woods and divides them into subcatagories. You'll need at least a 10x magnifier, at most a microscope with 250x capability. A must for woodturners and antique lovers.
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It's Wood!,
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My whole life I've been asking myself the same questions. What is my bed made out of? What are those things in the forest? What fuels fire?
This book answers ALL of those questions and more! The answer....WOOD! THOSE THINGS ARE MADE OF WOOD! Life finally makes sense thanks to this book. It will take you to a new level of enlightenment.
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The practice of classifying and assigning names to living things is called taxonomy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intervessel pitting, outer latewood, longitudinal parenchyma, latewood pores, cupressoid pitting, fine tangential lines, nestlike groups, spiral checking, heartwood color, terminal parenchyma, dentate ray tracheids, radial multiples, confluent parenchyma, zonate parenchyma, pores solitary, marginal ray cells, parenchyma arrangement, banded parenchyma, seriate rays, marginal parenchyma, procumbent cells, ray fleck, large bordered pits, abundant tyloses, aliform parenchyma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grain Appearance, Ring-porous Earlywood, United States, North American, None Heartwood, Central American, Picea Type, Gradual Resin Canals, Piceoid Ray Tracheids, Diffuse-Porous Subgroup, New Hampshire New!
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The practice of classifying and assigning names to living things is called taxonomy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intervessel pitting, outer latewood, longitudinal parenchyma, latewood pores, cupressoid pitting, fine tangential lines, nestlike groups, spiral checking, heartwood color, terminal parenchyma, dentate ray tracheids, radial multiples, confluent parenchyma, zonate parenchyma, pores solitary, marginal ray cells, parenchyma arrangement, banded parenchyma, seriate rays, marginal parenchyma, procumbent cells, ray fleck, large bordered pits, abundant tyloses, aliform parenchyma Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Grain Appearance, Ring-porous Earlywood, United States, North American, None Heartwood, Central American, Picea Type, Gradual Resin Canals, Piceoid Ray Tracheids, Diffuse-Porous Subgroup, New Hampshire New!
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- Forest Products Their Sources, Production, and Utilization by A.J., Harrar, E.S., Bethel, J.S. And Bake Panshin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Textbook of Wood Technology (American Forestry) by Alexis John Panshin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Practical Identification of Wood Pulp Fibers by Russell A. Parham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- World Woods in Color by William A. Lincoln on page 98, and Back Matter
- Wood Handbook for Craftsmen (Craft Paperbacks) by David Robert Johnston in Back Matter
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- Linking to the Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology includes CD-ROM by Kenneth L. Feder on page 188, and Back Matter
- Tools: A Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia by Garrett Wade in Back Matter
- Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads by Frank J. Daniels in Back Matter
- Surfaces : Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers (MacIntosh compatible) by Judy A. Juracek in Back Matter
- Understanding Wood REV/E by R Bruce Hoadley in Back Matter
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