Wood Handbook

[MikeDingas]

Here's an interesting handbook published by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. More info about wood than I knew existed or care to know about. Some of it's way over my head but it does have some good info. Best of all: it's free and downloadable as PDF.

[QTOFFER]

Thanks for posting this link, Mike!
It's nice to know the reason things happen the way they do. Being a science geek, I actually appreciate the charts and graphs!

For anyone interested, I own and recommend an interesting book that contains much of this information and explains it reasonably well.

http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Wood-Craftsmans-Guide-Technology/dp/1561583588/sr=8-3/qid=1169962599/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/102-0649032-7788137?ie=UTF8&s=books

[workin for wood]

That's a good website. I have the Encyclopedia of Wood. No book or website contains all woods, but certainly the more popular ones and then some. Thanx Mike.

[Minnesota scroller]

Mike, thanks for sharing. It does have an incredible amount of info, but I think I have all the charts and tables memorized now.