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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