Origins: USA and Canada.

Uses: Plywood, paneling, trim, tanks, joists, laminated beams and arches, boxes, crates, pallets, and flooring.

Origins: Western United States and Canada.

Uses: Plywood, paneling, trim, tanks, silos, joists, laminated beams and arches, boxes, crates, pallets, and flooring.

Origins: USA, Canada and Europe.

Uses: Cabinets, furniture, mill work, musical instruments, plywood, flooring, turnery, boxes, caskets, pallets, heavy construction, and many other applications.

Origins: Eastern North America.

Uses: Furniture, cabinetry, interior joinery, bowling pins, bowling lanes and other floors, school desks, ladder rungs, textile rollers, sports goods, stringed instruments, paneling, and decorative veneer.

Origins: USA and Canada.

Uses: Prized in North America for high-end cabinetry and furniture. Ideal for gun stocks due to dimensional stability and ability to absorb recoil. Also used for decorative panels and veneer, interior joinery, novelties, carving, turnery, boat building, clock cases, and musical instruments.

Origins: USA and Canada.

Uses: Commonly used for shingles due to decay resistance and predictability of splitting. Also used for poles, posts, boxes, crates, caskets, siding, boat building, porch columns, saunas, canoes, and decorative veneers. One of the best United States softwoods for outdoor applications.

Origins: Central and South America.

Uses: Cedar wood, because it presents low linear and volumetric retract ability, mechanical properties between low and medium, is especially indicated for the internal parts of fine furniture, veneer, decorative packaging, picture frames, casting models, sculpting, musical instruments; in buildings, for Venetian blinds, baseboards, edging, ceilings, wainscoting.

Origins: Brazil.

Uses: Brazilian cherry (jatoba) is frequently used where good shock resistance is needed, such as in wood flooring and tool handles. Other applications include railroad cross-ties, wheel rims, gear cogs, and other specialty items, as well as furniture and cabinet work.

Origins: Europe, Parts of West Asia, and Northern Africa.

Uses: White Oak is a popular selection for flooring, stair parts, architectural millwork, pulpits and pews, furniture and cabinetry. Its water-resistant characteristics have made it a preferred choice for ship timbers, barrels and casks. White Oak is also widely used for paneling and decorative veneers.

Origins: Europe.

Uses: Favored for butcher blocks. Also used for interior furniture (quarter-sawn lumber mainly), boxes (primarily food containers), crates, slack cooperage, flooring, pallets, handles, and veneer.

Origins: Grows in Europe and southeast Asia.

Uses: Possibly the most popular general purpose furniture wood. Also ideal for food containers, baskets, utensils, and bread/butcher boards because it does not impart taste or odor to food. Also used for chairs, handles, flooring, turned articles, cooperage, musical instruments, clothes pins, workbench tops, tool handles, novelties, core stock and decorative veneers.

Origins: Grows in Indonesia, India, and Central America, but imported from Europe(Germany).

Uses: Has numerous uses including ship building (especially decks), indoor or outdoor furniture, high class joinery, flooring, paneling, plywood, decorative veneers, turnery, carving, chemical tanks and vats.

Origins: Malaysia.

Uses: Exterior and interior joinery and paneling, flooring ,light carpentry, glue laminated, open boats, turned goods, sculpture , wood ware, vehicle or container flooring , current furniture or furniture components, sliced veneers.