White ash is a valued hardwood. Its admirable strength, hardness, and elasticity make it ideal for such products as baseball bats, billiard cues, hockey sticks tool handles, utility furniture, and vehicle and boat parts.
Know Your Woods
Know Your Woods
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The wood is highly prized for cabinetry and furniture, as well as for paneling, flooring, turning, and carving.
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Butternut wood has been favored for cabinetry and furniture, along with interior paneling and turnery.
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Sugar maple is stiff, strong, heavy, and hard. It offers great resistance to abrasion and shock, and its steam bending properties are good.
