What Wood Is That: A Manual of Wood Identification with 40 Actual Wood Specimens

by Herbert L. Edlin

Strong, pliable, and natural, wood is the world's most versatile structural resource. But how to tell one kind from another and choose just the right wood for your project? This remarkable collection... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670759074
• Release Date: May 1969
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.1" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

Focus on foreign...what about domestic?

This book is very handy when identifying and working with foreign wood, but for domestic wood identification try the United State's Department of Agriculture's "The Encyclopedia of Wood." It's extremely in-depth and informative.

Great Book

Gift for my husband. He just loves it. Very informative and helpful.

Quiet and straightforward

This is a very friendly and straightforward book. It starts with veneer samples (quite small, but big enough) of 40 woods and finishes with descriptions of the trees that yield these 40 woods.In between there is quite a bit of useful information on wood, and the history of woodworking. A pretty good introduction to wood for and woodworking. This book will be only modestly useful in identification, since it is limited to naked eye observations of those 40 woods.I browsed through the 1969 edition and it clearly is from another era (with the chainsaw just being introduced!). I can well imagine that those who equate woodworking with roaring high speed machines may find this quiet book not to their liking.

Great samples. Great book.

If your working on a project involving exotic woods, then this book should be added to your library. The REAL wood samples are great. The book also has very useful information about many types of wood. I find this book to be a handy reference tool and am glad to have added it to my collection.

A "must have" book for anyone who works with wood.

This book is a gem. It contains actual samples of woods, it is beautifully designed, very informative. Even if you are not a woodworker, and only just an admirer of this endangered item, you will treasure it. A great gift for home or professional woodworker or cabinet maker, furniture and antiques enthusiast, museum curator, or the like.