Unlike other elms freshly cut chinese elm has a peppery or spicy odour.
Chinese elm wood grain.
The wood of the hard elms sometimes referred to.
Shown below is a piece of lumber from a small tree that was killed by dutch elm disease.
It is no longer found in china and is imported from southeast asia and africa to makers in china.
Eight species are endemic to north america and a smaller number to europe.
Moderately dense elm weighs nearly 40 lbs.
The wood is very tough and has extensive interlocked grain.
Ulmiform patterning is evident even on the face grain of elm as thin zig zags between growth rings.
The grain is often handsome and dramatic.
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.
The most basic division of elm species is between hard and soft elm.
It is one of the densest and hardest of woods.
Per cubic foot dry.
Elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan while the sapwood approaches off white.
Elm wood was valued for its interlocking grain and consequent resistance to splitting with significant uses in wagon wheel hubs chair seats and coffins.
We asked his opinion on some of the working and drying properties and this was his response.
Hard and soft scans pictures.
The wood itself is rare very hard with fine lined grain.
The greatest diversity is found in china.
Interlocked grain means that the lengthwise grain from year to year goes different directions instead of being perfectly vertical in the.
Difficult to carve and carved by only experts.
The usually dramatic grain resembles ash.
Chinese elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan or flesh coloured while the sapwood approaches off white.