Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is hard, dense, tough, and very strong but elastic.
Bows:
Cabinets:
Bows:
Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is hard, dense, tough, and very strong but elastic.
Cabinets:
Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) has hard, reddish-brown wood (cherry wood), and is valued as a hardwood for woodturning, and making cabinets and musical instruments.
Chairs:
European Beech, Common Beech: is particularly well suited for minor carpentry, from chairs to parquetry (flooring) and staircases.
European Beech, Common Beech: is particularly well suited for minor carpentry, from chairs to parquetry (flooring) and staircases.
Clogs:
Use of thorns of the Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) as fishing bait are mentioned as "sloe-thorn worms", in the 15th century work, The Treatyse of Fishing with an Angle, by Juliana Berners.
Furniture:
Alder (Alnus glutinosa).
European Beech, Common Beech: is particularly well suited for minor carpentry, particularly furniture. From chairs to parquetry (flooring) and staircases.
Gunpowder :
Gunpowder :
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)supplies excellent charcoal for gunpowder.
The Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) shrub, with its savage thorns, is traditional in Northern Europe and Britain in making a hedge proof against cattle.
Hurleys:
Hurleys:
Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is hard, dense, tough, and very strong but elastic.
Mallets:
European Beech, Common Beech: Its hardness renders it ideal for making wooden mallets and workbench tops.
European Beech, Common Beech: Its hardness renders it ideal for making wooden mallets and workbench tops.
Musical instruments:
Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) has hard, reddish-brown wood (cherry wood), and is valued as a hardwood for woodturning, and making cabinets and musical instruments.
Piles:
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) is very durable underwater, and it is therefore used for piles.
Staircases:
European Beech, Common Beech: is particularly well suited for minor carpentry, including staircases.
Tool handles:
Tool handles:
Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is hard, dense, tough, and very strong but elastic.
Waterproofing/Seasoning:
Birches
Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Downy Birch (Betula pubescens)
Ground birch bark, fermented in sea water, is used for seasoning the woolen, hemp or linen sails and hemp rope of traditional Norwegian boats.
Birches
Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Downy Birch (Betula pubescens)
Ground birch bark, fermented in sea water, is used for seasoning the woolen, hemp or linen sails and hemp rope of traditional Norwegian boats.
Worktop benches:
European Beech, Common Beech: Its hardness renders it ideal for making wooden mallets and workbench tops.
. Bark . Coppice . Dye . Fine-grain . Firewood . Flavoring . Fodder . Fruit . Hardwood . Hedgerows . Indoor use only . Marshy or moist soil . Medicinal . Moisture resistance . Oil . Paper . Piles . Seeds and Nuts . Softwood . Special Uses . Superstition .
. Alders . Alder buckthorn . Ash . Beech . Birches . Box . Cherries, Plums, Blackthorn . Dogwood . Elder . Elms . Hazels . Hollies . Hornbeams . Junipers . Limes . Maples . Oaks . Pines . Poplars . Purging buckthorn . Rowans and Whitebeams . Service tree . Native shrubs . Willows . Yews .