It is one of the densest and hardest of woods.
Chinese elm wood grain.
Moderately dense elm weighs nearly 40 lbs.
The wood itself is rare very hard with fine lined grain.
Elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan while the sapwood approaches off white.
The usually dramatic grain resembles ash.
The grain is often handsome and dramatic.
The wood is very tough and has extensive interlocked grain.
Hard and soft scans pictures.
Per cubic foot dry.
This sample was sent to us by eric beckman who is harvesting chinese elm.
Chinese elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan or flesh coloured while the sapwood approaches off white.
It is no longer found in china and is imported from southeast asia and africa to makers in china.
The greatest diversity is found in china.
Elm wood was valued for its interlocking grain and consequent resistance to splitting with significant uses in wagon wheel hubs chair seats and coffins.
Unlike other elms freshly cut chinese elm has a peppery or spicy odour.
The hardest part of the process was the drying the lumber tried its best to warp every which way so i just piled more and more weight on top.
Shown below is a piece of lumber from a small tree that was killed by dutch elm disease.
Eight species are endemic to north america and a smaller number to europe.
Ulmiform patterning is evident even on the face grain of elm as thin zig zags between growth rings.
Siberian elm is often mistaken with ulmus parvifolia chinese elm even though they look completely different.
Being so young there was very little heartwood formed yet the darker brown wood on the right half with the majority of the wood being sapwood light area on the left half of the scans.
Difficult to carve and carved by only experts.
The wood of the hard elms sometimes referred to.