Below is the technical information surrounding our White Beech veneer.
Family: Fagaceae
Commercial Names: English, Danish, French, etc., according to country of origin.
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Distribution: Throughout central Europe and UK, also found in West Asia.
General Description:The heartwood is very pale pink-brown. It is common practice on the continent to steam the timber, which turns it to a reddish-brown tone. Some logs have a dark red kern or darker veining. Beech has a straight grain and fine, even texture. Average weight 720 kg/m³ (45 1b/ft³); specific gravity .72.
Mechanical Properties: The steam bending properties are exceptionally good, even tolerant of knots and irregular grain. It has medium stiffness, high crushing strength and medium resistance to shock loads.
Seasoning: Dries fairly rapidly, but is classed as moderately refractory tending to warp, check, split and shrink. Care needed in air drying and kilning to avoid shrinkage. When dry there is a large movement in service.
Working Properties:The ease of working varies and growth conditions and seasoning. Tough material or badly dried timber will bind on saws, burn when crosscut, and be difficult to plane. Beech offers medium resistance to had and power tools, and has a moderate blunting effect on cutting edges. Pre-boring is necessary for nailing, it glues easily, stains well, and takes an excellent finish.
Durability: The wood is perishable, liable to attack by common furniture beetle and by deathwatch beetle in old buildings. Sapwood is affected by longhorn beetle. The timber is permeable for preservation treatment.
Uses: Cabinet making, high-class joinery, solid and laminated furniture, desks and work benches, chair making, shoe heels, sportswear, toys, bobbins, woodware, tool handles, turnery, musical instruments, domestic flooring, heavy construction, marine piling (when pressure treated), core stock and utility plywood. Sliced veneers have an excellent flecked figure on quartered surfaces, and broad rays on longitudinal surfaces, and are used for decorative veneering. More European beech is consumed in the UK than any other hardwood.
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