I suspect a lot of topic specific websites from the 90s just became wikipedia pages. However, there is evident value in highly curated content like this in a broad subject area that many people care about.
The Wood Database
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#22This is my favorite practical tool for woodwork -- it tells you how much different woods will sag based on the properties of the load:
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Juniper is fantastic for raised beds. I usually get it at Dunn Lumber in the spring (Seattle area).
are we talking about juniperous virginiana? Beautiful tree, horrible allergen. It does decemt at resisting insects amd rot. But if you want that bed to outlive you use osage orange. Rip it green though or you'll spend a fortune in blades.
Different species - occidentalis (meaning Western) vs virginiana (from Virginia), on different sides of the continent.
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#24This is an excellent resource. I recently stumbled on an 'egg collection' for wood. This is almost literally what it sounds like - a huge collection of images of egg-shaped pieces of timber, that really shows off the colour and grain. A focus on Australian timbers, of course, but that's no bad thing as we're otherwise often poorly represented. https://ttit.id.au/eggpage/alleggs.htm
> This is an excellent resource.
...for people living in U.S., Myanmar and Liberia.
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#25I was expecting the link to take me to a landing page for a database implementation based on wood analogies.
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#26nitpick, website with footer and infinite scroll not good. :D
Infinite scroll is never good.
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#27I was expecting the link to take me to a landing page for a database implementation based on wood analogies.
Same. But i was not disappointed. The world has enough databases :D
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#28Seems to be an amazing resource, but so sad that it's tailored for an American audience with an English-only catalogue and those unreadable units (wtf is a lbs/ft3, seriously ?).
Edit: Ah ! They have meters and kg/m3 on each detail page, that's better !
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#29This is an excellent resource. I recently stumbled on an 'egg collection' for wood. This is almost literally what it sounds like - a huge collection of images of egg-shaped pieces of timber, that really shows off the colour and grain. A focus on Australian timbers, of course, but that's no bad thing as we're otherwise often poorly represented. https://ttit.id.au/eggpage/alleggs.htm
> This is an excellent resource. ...for people living in U.S., Myanmar and Liberia.
Agreed that the parochial measurement system is frustrating - those filters could certainly benefit from an 'are you in the 95 percent?' toggle to flip to sane units.
FWIW the entries for each timber do have the metric (Pa, metre, etc) figures shown in parenthesis after the US imperial figures.
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#30three 'different' alders seem to have the same image