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European Beech is a light-coloured wood with a straight grain and even texture. Renowned for its overall strength and excellent shock resistance, it can be used for a broad range of projects, including internal joinery, cabinet making, furniture, tool handles, cooking utensils, sports equipment and children’s toys. Its grain makes it an easy wood to work with and respond well to steam bending, dying, varnishing, painting and glueing. It can be subject to movement and stress after machining occurs due to its denseness.
Beech would need to be treated extensively for use outdoors as it is not externally rated to be in a damp climate.
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The tree
Beech has been called the mother of the forest, since without it in mixed broad-leaved forests, other hardwood timber trees would have greater difficulties for survival. The rain-drip from beech destroys many soil-exhausting weeds, its shade prevents over-evaporation of moisture from the soil, and its heavy crop of leaves provides humus to the soil. In close forest, it can reach a height of 45m with a clear bole of 15m but on average this is usually about 9m with a diameter averaging 1.2m occasionally more.
The timber
Normally, there is no clear distinction by colour between sapwood and heartwood, the wood being very pale brown when freshly cut, turning reddishbrown on exposure, and deep reddish-brown under the influence of steaming treatment commonly applied in parts of the continent before shipment. Some logs show an irregular, dark reddish-coloured kern or heart, caused it is believed, by the effect of severe frosts, and occurring more frequently in continental beech. The wood is typically straight grained, with a fine, even texture, but varying in density and hardness according to the locality of growth. Thus beech from central Europe, notably that from Yugoslavia (Slavonian), and that from Romania is milder and lighter in weight, about 672kg/m3, than beech from Britain, Germany and northern European, which weighs about 720kg/m3 when dried. British Beech is harder, more coarse-grained than German.
Strength and Durability
Green beech has general strength properties roughly equal to those of oak, but after drying, most values increase, and unkilned beech is stronger than oak in bending strength, stiffness and sheer by some 20%, and considerably stronger in resistance to impact loads.
Not durable. Slightly / non-resistant to heartwood decay. Liable to attack by the common furniture beetle and longhorn beetle. Permeable for preservation.
Physical properties
Good overall strength, excellent shock resistance, good resistance to abrasive wear.
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What can beech wood be used for?
European Beech timber is used for joinery interior, furniture, flooring, doors, paneling, brush handles, turning, food storage/containers and many more.
How strong and durable is this beech wood?
European Beech Timber has general strength properties roughly equal to those of oak, but after drying, most values increase, and beech is stronger than oak in bending strength, stiffness and shear by some 20 per cent, and considerably stronger in resistance to impact loads. European Beech is not durable and is slightly/non-resistant to heartwood decay. European Beech is liable to attack by the common furniture beetle and longhorn beetle and is permeable for preservation.
What are the physical properties of beech wood?
European Beech has good overall strength, excellent shock resistance and good resistance to abrasive wear. European Beech also excellent for bending.