COMMON FURNITURE WOODS: Beginner's Guide for Furniture Flipping / Refinishing

The number one MOST asked question I get... is "how do you know what kind of wood that is". It's not always an easy answer, and 99% of it is research, practice, and experience. But there ARE some hints that certain wood species give away that can help.

This video won't make you an expert... there's no substitute for literal practice with it. But I'm hoping it will help people just starting out to recognize some common wood species used in furniture, as well as a little about the structure and composition and characteristics of wood as well.

Topics covered in this video:
0:01 Intro
0:50 Looking at what you have
2:25 Basic Wood Terminology
3:00 Heartwood & sapwood
4:35 Earlywood & latewood
5:10 Blotchy stain & grain Reversal
6:03 The ONLY way to get good at identification
8:12 TEAK
10:41 CHERRY
12:24 ASH
14:00 MAPLE
16:13 POPLAR
17:03 WALNUT
18:47 CEDAR
20:11 ELM
21:56 OAK
22:27 What is "tiger wood" or "tiger oak"? QUARTERSAWN
24:01 RED OAK & WHITE OAK
26:04 PINE
27:43 BIRCH
28:53 MAHOGANY
30:15 AFRICAN MAHOGANY
30:52 SOUTH AMERICAN MAHOGANY
31:32 SAPELE
32:16 Research & practice
33:37 End grain
33:52 Responsibility
34:59 Patina
36:50 Final remarks

This list is NOT exhaustive. There are hundreds of other woods used to make all sorts of different furniture. But these are the ones I run into the most, and depending where in the world you live, probably the ones YOU would run into the most.

If there's a wood you would like to learn more about, there is a website that is a free WEALTH of information that might be able to help: https://www.wood-database.com

Brett from RedBeard Rustics Instagram page: https://instagram.com/redbeardrusticswc

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