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White Ash
The Best American White Ash
White Ash Specification
Distribution:- Eastern North America.
Tree size:- 20-30m tall, 0.6-1.5m trunk diameter.
Density:- 675 kg/m3.
Colour / Appearance:-
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- The heartwood is a light to medium brown colour.
- The grain is almost always straight and regular.
- The sapwood can be very wide, and tends to be beige or light brown, not always clearly or sharply demarcated from heartwood.
Grain / Texture:-
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- Has a medium to coarse texture similar to Oak.
- The grain is almost always straight and regular, though sometimes moderately curly or figured boards can be found.
End Grain:-
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- Ring-porous, large earlywood pores 2-4rows wide, small latewood pores solitary and radial multiples, tyloses common, parenchyma banded (marginal).
- Par tracheal parenchyma around latewood pores vasicentric, winged and confluent, narrow rays spacing normal.
Resistance:-
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- Heartwood is rated as a perishable, or only slightly durable in regard to decay.
- Ash is also not resistant to insect attack.
Working Ability:-
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- Produces good results with hand or machine tools.
- Responds well to steam bendings.
- Glues, stains, and finishes well.
Oder:-
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- Can have distinct, moderately unpleasant smell when being worked.
Common Uses:-
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- Flooring, millwork, boxes/crates, baseball bat, and other turned objects such as tool handles.
- When stained, Ash can look very similar to Oak, although Oaks have much wider rays, which are visible on all wood surfaces-even on flat sawn surfaces, where they appear as short, thin brown lines between the growth rings.
- Ashes lack these conspicuous rays.
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