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Wood Hardness Chart

The document provides a wood hardness chart listing various species of wood along with their corresponding hardness measured by pressure in pounds per board foot. It includes both kiln-dried weight and pressure values for each species. Additionally, it explains the Janka Hardness Test used to measure wood hardness.

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Wood Hardness Chart

The document provides a wood hardness chart listing various species of wood along with their corresponding hardness measured by pressure in pounds per board foot. It includes both kiln-dried weight and pressure values for each species. Additionally, it explains the Janka Hardness Test used to measure wood hardness.

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Ohio Hardwood Furniture Wood Hardness Chart

Wood Hardness
By Species By Pressure
Pressure to Pressure to
Species KD Weight Species
Mar Mar
(Kiln-Dried) per BF/LB (Kiln-Dried)
(In Pounds) (In Pounds)
Alder 590 2.288 Aspen 350
Ash 1200 3.274 Buckeye, Ohio (Yellow) 350
Aspen 350 2.211 Pine, Eastern White 380
Basswood 410 2.031 Pine, Sugar 380
Beech 1300 3.597 Basswood 410
Black Walnut 1010 3.159 Cottonwood 430
Buckeye, Ohio (Yellow) 350 2.039 Butternut 490
Butternut 490 2.191 Yellow Poplar 540
Catalpa 550 2.305 Catalpa 550
Cedar (Eastern Red) 900 2.620 Alder 590
Cedar, Spanish 600 2.500 Cedar, Spanish 600
Cherry 950 2.881 Sassafras 630
Cottonwood 430 2.308 Sycamore 770
Elm, Gray (American) 830 2.881 Mahogany, Genuine 800
Elm, Red (Slippery) 860 2.986 Elm, Gray (American) 830
Gum 850 2.887 Mahogany, African 830
Hackberry 880 3.060 Gum 850
Hard Maple 1450 3.523 Elm, Red (Slippery) 860
Hickory, Pecan 1820 4.135 Hackberry 880
Locust, Black 1700 3.982 Cedar (Eastern Red) 900
Locust, Honey 1580 3.650 Cherry 950
Mahogany, African 830 3.583 Soft Maple 950
Mahogany, Genuine 800 3.417 Black Walnut 1010
Osage Orange 2360 4.290 Ash 1200
Pine, Eastern White 380 2.020 Yellow Birch 1260
Pine, Sugar 380 2.012 Red Oak 1290
Red Oak 1290 3.494 Beech 1300
Sassafras 630 2.583 White Oak 1360
Soft Maple 950 3.030 Hard Maple 1450
Sapele 1510 3.583 Sapele 1510
Sycamore 770 2.836 Locust, Honey 1580
Tree of Heaven 1731 2.833 Locust, Black 1700
White Oak 1360 3.825 Tree of Heaven 1731
Yellow Birch 1260 3.520 Hickory, Pecan 1820
Yellow Poplar 540 2.475 Osage Orange 2360
Janka Hardness Test: A measure of the hardness of wood, produced by a variation of the Brinell Hardness
Test. The test measures the force required to push a steel ball with a diameter of 11.28 millimeters (0.444
inches) into the wood to a depth of half the ball's diameter (the diameter was chosen to produce a circle
with an area of 100 square millimeters).

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