Yes! All I can say is thank f#*k someone has finally done this. I want to hold three different pages open at once and immediately compare different timbers. Janka vs janka, end grain vs end grain etc. I'm an Australian carpenter and architect, working mainly with eucalypts. To be able to readily and rapidly compare characteristics of commonly used exotics like Birch, Radiata Pine and American Oak to Australian timbers is very useful and informative.
It's so good to have people like you in the world - Huge knowledge, and sharing it in an absolutely methodical, easy to use and clear manner, so we can all benefit from it. Thanks so much for doing what you do, I use your website's filter function regularly to compare woods (whilst being aware of all the variation you mention in this video!) and it's just great. Thank you!
Curious as to which of the mahogany is the darkest. I ended up with a random 16/4 piece in a stack of Honduran mahogany a friend gave to me. It’s brown throughout but shows the same grain pattern as you’d expect from the genus…
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God Bless your work bro. I appreciate your work and will use this book for myself and my kids to teach them what you've brough forth. Blessings to you and your family.
Thanks for the video. I appreciate your straight forward method. It ansered a couple of layout question I had (i.e. the width of the pieces being the same as the thickness of the wood). I also think its cool that you are using a vintage craftsman lathe ( have a similar one!). I get tired of seeing folks with the $3000 lathes. You did better than many of them for a significant lower cost.
I assume that this list is old? I see no mention of Australian Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii), which from my findings was the densest wood at 5,060 lbf on the Janka hardness scale. Could be a fluke or outdated, but just wanted to double check. I also usually see people in the woodworking world never acknowledge this tree, so maybe its simply not viable for woodworking uses? Since woodworkers mention waddy wood is the densest, so maybe thats the only one that can be made into planks. Just a thought
Some parts of the region that this tree is native to, received over 2.2 metres of rainfall last week from Cyclone Jasper. This is equivalent to 3-4 years annual rainfall for most Australian tree species.
We have this poster at work. I asked for a second copy for myself because it is the best/most complete hardness list ive ever seen. Cool to see where it came from. Good work
In my mind I thought all olive trees were the same, in my part of the USA we have what is known as Russian olive trees, that would is very dark on the inside with a light outer layer. I see this has Europeae in it's name and I wonder how closely they related. I don't like the Russian olive wood to work with because it's so soft
Regarding the interior being dry, using something like Red Oak (not white oak) might help the liquid getting into the interior as the wood is much more porous. You can actually take a piece of red oak and blow air out through the end fibers from the other end of the block
