Identifying Wood Species

[Jerry Bittner]

I buy my lumber from a saw mill rough cut and finish it myself. On my last trip--of many I have made-- the owner told me to feel free to go to the planing shop and take what I wanted from the scrap pile.

I latched on to some good pieces of walnut, red oak, white oak and popular but there were other species that I could not identify. Did not want to bother him to help me identify what I could not and I wonder if anyone knows a site that would help me learn to identify other species or is this somethin one acquires by simply being exposed to the many varieties?

[John Buzzurro]

You might try one of these links:

http://www.woodmagazine.com/wood/category.jhtml?categoryid=/templatedata/wood/category/data/Wood_Magazine_Wood_Profiles.xml

http://www.woodworkerssource.net/Wood_Products/wood_products.html

[scott spencer]

Hi Jerry - I like this site quite a bit:

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/index.htm