Q. We have been buying steamed walnut, but the latest batches seem to have more color variation and the sapwood is really white. I know that the company steams the walnut, but what is the reason for this poorer color?

Outstanding furniture wood ignored by most sawmills.

A Mahogany cousin.

What you need to know to optimize your solid wood machining operation.

In furniture and cabinet manufacturing, hardboard is probably only used to add rigidity to a box-like structure.

Part III in the Wood Dr.'s series on composite panels focuses on particleboard

MDF, as the name implies is made with fibers and small clumps of fibers.

Bubinga is a hard and heavy wood that is grown in Cameroon, Gabon and the Ivory Coast of Africa.

Part one of in-depth article on composite panels and their properties.