APPEARANCE:
The color is a light cream with darker heartwood, something between maple and ash. The grain is short, mostly straight, with beautiful, even texture. Beechwood imparts definite warmth to the environment and can make the interior look spacious. Furniture manufacturers and cabinet makers figured out the trick for quite a while that's one reason many pieces of furniture designed for small habitats such as apartments or flats are often veneered with beech wood.
European Beechwood
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES:
Dense, heavy, and hard (1300 on the Janka scale) yet somewhat brittle due to its short grain. Not having any specific taste or odor and being very gentle on the knifes edge, it becomes an obvious choice of cutting boards, chopping blocks, and butcher-block countertops. The unfinished wood has poor dimensional stability, as it reacts promptly to the changes in the environmental humidity. It is, therefore, necessary for the wood to be sealed with great care before installation.
European Beechwood
WORKING PROPERTIES:
Beechwood machines very well and has exceptional stain acceptance. Being a dense wood, it tends to split along the grain, so pre-drilling is a must for nails and wood screws.
European Beechwood
TRIVIA:
Although beech wood is not very durable outdoors, its durability increases when soaked continuously. That's why beech wood came as the right candidate for building water wheels and underwater ship elements when white oak or other traditional water-resistant timber was not available.
* We are among the leading suppliers of Teak timber. We have a rich amount of experience in supplying good quality of Teak timber to various destinations. It is the most expensive timber available in the market and is the most valuable timber both for elegance and durability.
What is Teak Wood?
* Teak Wood is a tropical hard wood tree species, and Tectona grandis is a scientific name, which comes from the flowering plant family of Lamiaceae. The Teak wood is obtained from the teak tree and is available in different classifications based on the origin such as:
Indian Teak Wood
Burma Teak Wood
Thailand Teak Wood
Indonesian Teak Wood
Chinese Teak Wood
African Teak Wood
Brazilian Teak Wood
South American Teak Wood
African Plantation Teak Wood
South American Plantation Teak Wood
* It is a native to South and Southeast Asia and widely grown plantations through tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Properties
* Teak timber is widely recognized for its good durability and stability. The timber has a rich oil content, but it is usually glued and finishes well. Typically, Teak Timber has excellent resistance to termites, insects, and white ants attack. It is water-resistant in nature; hence it is used in making furniture.
* The timber is generally fine, the grain is straight, can be wavy or interlocked. It is coarsely grained, even texture and moderately luster. It is oily or greasy on raw and unfinished wood surfaces due to the natural oils.
* It has an excellent workability feature, easy to work. It has a high degree of natural ability, has excellent decay resistance.
* The heartwood appears to be Yellow brown to dark golden or medium brown, and the sapwood is whitish to pale yellow. It darkens as it ages.
* Teak timber can grow from 30 to 40 meters, and the trunk diameter is up to 1.5 meters.
