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2. Amish furniture - Wikipedia

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   Hickory is harder than oak and distinguished by extreme contrasts of light and dark colors. Hickory's sapwood is a creamy white while hickory's heartwood is a red, pink or reddish-brown color and often referred to as red hickory. [8] Cedar has a deep rosy glow and stripes of light golden sapwood. [9] Eastern white pine is a soft wood.

3. Quercus alba - Wikipedia

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   The Mingo Oak was the tallest known white oak at over two hundred feet with a trunk height of 44.2 m (145 ft) before it was felled in 1938. [6] It is not unusual for the crown spread of a white oak tree to be as wide as it is tall, but specimens growing at high altitudes may only become small shrubs.

4. Mission style furniture - Wikipedia

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   Mission style is a design that emphasizes simple horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels that accentuate the grain of the wood (often oak, especially quartersawn white oak). People were looking for relief after the excesses of Victorian times and the influx of mass-produced furniture from the Industrial Revolution. [2]

5. Solid wood - Wikipedia

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   However, "wood solids" is a term of art. The "wood solids" are simply plywood, or another engineered wood product. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission doesn't allow furniture to be advertised as made of "solid wood" unless all exposed surfaces are in fact solid wood. [1] [2] Solid wood is expensive. Engineered wood (often advertised as wood ...

6. Oak - Wikipedia

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   Oak timber is a strong and hard wood with many uses, such as for furniture, floors, building frames, and veneers. [70] The wood of a red oak Quercus cerris (the Turkey oak) has better mechanical properties than those of the white oaks Q. petraea and Q. robur; the heartwood and sapwood have similar mechanical properties. [71]

7. List of Indian timber trees - Wikipedia

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   Pine wood is hard and tough except white pine which is soft. It decays easily if it comes into contact with soil. It is heavy and coarse grained. It is used for pattern making, frames for doors and windows, and for paving material. White pine is light and straight grained and is used in the manufacture of matches. Red cedar: Red [1] 480 kg/m 3