Janka Hardness:
950 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Black Cherry:
Prized for its rich color and fine graining, black cherry is commonly seen in American cabinetry and furniture. The fine, satiny texture of the wood is uniform and frequently wavy, with distinctive gum veins and pockets. The lustrous heartwood ranges from a light pinkish brown when freshly cut to a dark reddish or golden brown when aged and exposed to light. Black cherry is extremely light-sensitive, so there is a strong color change and darkening over a short period time when the wood is first exposed to light. Cherry’s colors can be rapidly darkened and aged through exposure to direct sunlight.
The sapwood stands in sharp contrast with the heartwood. It is often a pale yellow to light brown to a light pinkish tone. Black Cherry has a fine texture with closed pores. Its grain is often straight, except in figured pieces which have a curly grain pattern.
Black Cherry’s heartwood is very durable and decay resistant. The wood has a good strength-to-weight ratio.
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Janka Hardness:
900 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Cedar:
Eastern red cedar is marked by a thin, white or pale yellow sapwood that can appear throughout the heartwood as streaks and stripes. Its heartwood can be red to deep reddish-brown to violet-brown. Depending on the cut, the sapwood may appear in contrasting stripes within the heartwood. It has a straight grain with tight knots, which can add to the beauty of the wood. It has a fine texture with closed pores.
Eastern red cedar is a slow-growing species of wood which results in harvested trees being small in diameter and as a result boards are knotty and narrow.
A durable wood, it resists decay and insect attack
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Janka Hardness:
1980 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Central Africa
About Bubinga:
Bubinga is a beautiful, dense hardwood with a lustrous appearance. Its heartwood has a rose-colored background with darker purple or black striping. Bubinga’s sapwood is a pale yellow color that is distinctly separate from the heartwood.
This wood is usually very uniform in graining and color, and the texture is fine and even. Grain is usually interlocked and pores are small. Bubinga comes in a variation of figure, including: pommele, flamed, waterfall, quilted, and mottled. When quarter-sawn, the figure of bubinga shows considerable “flame,” while it exhibits attractive rosewood graining when flat-sawn. When fully aged, bubinga has a rich burgundy red color.
Bubinga ranges from fairly durable to very durable according to the species. It is also resistant to termite and marine borer attack.
While Bubinga looks very much like rosewood, and is often used as a substitute for more expensive woods, it also has unique characteristics such as its beautiful grain figures, for example, flamed, pommele, and waterfall. Bubinga also has a notable strength-to-weight ratio.
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Janka Hardness:
3000 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Brazil
About Brazilian Rosewood:
The heartwood of Brazilian Rosewood varies from a deep, rich dark brown to a purplish black. Its sapwood ranges from white to tan. The difference between the heartwood and sapwood color can be significant, leading some flooring manufacturers to steam the lumber to bleed the darker heartwood color into the sapwood to produce uniformity in color.
Brazilian Rosewood has a predominantly straight and open grain. On occasion, boards have been found with burled or curly grain. The pore arrangement of Brazilian Rosewood approaches that of hickory and persimmon, but are smaller in size.
Brazilian Rosewood is re-known for its strength, hardness, stability, beauty, and acoustic properties, and has been used for everything from flooring to guitars.
Over the past few decades Brazilian Rosewood has been exploited and over harvested leading to its being placed in the most restrictive category of endangered species: CITES Appendix I. Brazilian Rosewood is prohibited from being imported or exported from country to country. Finished products made of Brazilian Rosewood are also banned from crossing international boundaries.
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Janka Hardness:
2200 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Tropical Americas
About Bocote:
Prized for its beauty, bocote is a particularly fine, beautiful wood, ranging in color in the heartwood from light to golden brown, with irregular blackish streaks. The sapwood can be grayish or yellowish. If quarter-sawn, the wood has an attractive ray-fleck figure. The grain of bocote is usually straight or shallowly interlocked. The texture is fairly uniform and typically ranges from fine to medium, with a somewhat waxy or oily appearance.
A very dense wood, bocote is moderately strong and durable. The bending strength of bocote is comparable to that of teak, while the compression strength is comparable to that of mahogany. It is highly resistant to insects.
Bocote is one of the hardest and most durable choices for wood flooring. It is one hundred and twenty percent harder than teak, sixty-one percent harder than white oak, fifty-one percent harder than hard maple, about twenty-one percent harder than hickory or pecan, fourteen percent harder than jarrah, identical in hardness to santos mahogany, and is almost ninety-four percent as hard as Brazilian cherry’s ranking of 2350.
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Janka Hardness:
1260 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Birch:
A longtime favorite in premium cabinetry and millwork, Birch is extremely durable and has distinctive blends of lighter coloration. Each board has an intriguing combination of blonde outer edges and warm cherry-like center portions. Its varying grain patterns range from subtle swirls to highly figured flames. The result is a very unusual floor that is sure to become the focal point in any contemporary or traditional setting.
The sapwood of yellow birch ranges from pale white to creamy yellow, while the heartwood tends to be a light-reddish brown with a red tinge. By contrast, the sapwood of sweet birch is light-colored, whereas the heartwood is dark brown with a red tinge. Birch has a small degree of luster, making it seem almost dull in appearance.
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Janka Hardness:
2900 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: South America
About Blondewood:
Bloodwood is beautiful dense wood, which is very red in color and holds that color over time. Bloodewood exhibits a fairly wide range of color variation, from pale orange colors through to deep blood red.
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Janka Hardness:
1300 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Beech:
While the sapwood is generally pale white, the heartwood of the American beech is mostly reddish brown. There is often a moderate to high color variation between boards. The grain of the wood is straight, and mostly closed, with a fine, uniform texture. This species is coarser than the European beech. Beechwood surfaces may sometimes have a silvery sheen.
Beech is frequently used in factory floors and other high-traffic areas, since it wears well and stays smooth when subjected to repeated friction. The wood is hard and elastic, with excellent shock-resistance.
American beech is thirty percent harder than teak, almost identical to red oak in hardness (under one percent), four percent softer than white oak, ten percent softer than hard maple, thirty-two percent softer than jarrah, and just over fifty-nine percent as hard as santos mahogany’s ranking of 2200.
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Janka Hardness:
1320 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Ash:
Ash is an amazingly dense and durable wood with a unique elasticity. (It’s the traditional wood used for baseball bats.) These qualities also make Ash a great choice for radiant heat, concrete slab foundations or anywhere humidity is a factor.
From an aesthetic standpoint, Ash is prized for its interesting grain patterns and striking hues, from the cream-colored and light almond outer portions of the tree to the rich nutty brown heartwood.
The sapwood of white ash is creamy white, while the heartwood ranges from light tan to dark brown. The grain is bold and straight, with an occasional wavy pattern; and in plain-sawn boards it can have a strong contrast. The wood has a lustrous appearance, and the texture is rather coarse.
Natural or unstained, Ash offers a very sophisticated look with high impact resistance.
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Janka Hardness:
3040 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Brazil
About Angelim Pedra:
Angelim Pedra hardwood flooring is characterized by a well-defined rich red and deep brown vertical grain. Behind this grain lies Angelim Pedra’s base color, which varies slightly, often appearing light mustard yellow or a warm tan. This wood gives off a natural luster, which increases the feeling of depth between the base color and the richer grain. Angelim pedra is a medium-density wood, with a low moisture content. Since the timber is heavy and very hard, the shrinkage is slight. The wood has no distinctive odor. Receiving a high rating in durability, this wood is resilient to pressure and environment and is unattractive to rot and fungi. Compared to many hardwoods, Angelim Pedra is particularly conducive to easy installation, and it is more attractive than its often pricier competitors.
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