It is an often used as furniture veneered as well as for flooring and for architectural wood work .

Veneer. Only very good logs are used for slicing, others are peeled. Red Oak is also used fro facing in the furniture and door industries and as construction wood. Unlike in White Oak, Red Oak wood is not suitable for staves due to its open pores.

Sliced veneer, engineering and construction lumber for all interior and exterior applications, windows, doors parquet flooring, furniture. Of no great significance in Europe.

Turneries, carvings. Used as veneer solely for architectural woodwork or inlays.

In the veneer sector, Jatoba is mainly used as parquet wood and less often as furniture wood in the series furniture production. Ideal also for terrace wood due to its good resistance to fungal disease and insect infestation.

Architectural woodwork and mass-produced furniture. Less known in Europe. Used in South America also as deck planks for shipbuilding.

Architectural fittings and fixtures as well as furniture, however restricted to North America. With the exception of Madrona Burl not used in Europe, despite various attempts to introduce it there, because it stains easily.

Fine furniture and cabinet making, interior trim, paneling, fancy veneer, musical instruments, boat building, pattern making, turnery and carving.

Sliced veneer and lumber for architectural woodwork and high class furniture making. Due to its high strength and elasticity suitable also for production of chairs and seats. Used especially for gunstocks and aircraft propellers. Traditional wood for upright and grand piano making.

Sliced veneer and lumber for architectural woodwork and high class furniture making. Due to its high strength and elasticity suitable also for production of chairs and seats. Used especially for gunstocks and aircraft propellers. Traditional wood for upright and grand piano making.

Sliced veneer for faces. In America a special wood for boat building and harbour work.

Hard Maple is one of the most used furniture woods in the USA. Over the last two years Hard Maple has established itself in Europe as a furniture wood, above all as a “substitute” for Pear, Alder or European Sycamore in un-steamed white or steamed pink colour shades. Due to its resistance to friction it is also suitable as hard-wearing parquet in gymnasium, etc… Turned into bobbins, loom shuttles and billiard cues.

For veneer, lumber, musical instruments, fruit crates, at present used as solid wood for furniture. Was considered to be an inferior wood not accepted by the furniture industry until the mid-nineties when it became fashionable.

Bocote is often used in the exclusive furniture production, but also as wood for turning objects and for musical instruments. Quite often,it is used for high – quality knife handles. Bocote veneers are not used much in Europe; however they are high demand in Asia.

Architectural woodwork, high class furniture making.

High quality architectural woodwork, in demand as inlay wood (France), architectural wood for furniture, paneling and luxury products.

In USA, it is an often used as commercial timber fro inexpensive furniture-veneered as well as made of solid wood- for plywood, fruit crates, paper production and barrels. Relatively unknown in Europe as veneer and seldom used for interior wood work.

Very good sliced veneer for faces. As lumber it is preferred for architectural panels and furniture. Good qualities are always in demand. However, due to this heavy demand it is becoming more and more difficult to find American Black Cherry in good qualities. It also very much sought after as lumber.

The White Oak can be used universally in all branches of the woodworking industry because it is most resistant to external influences. This is why it is held in high esteem in the veneer and lumber trades due to its expressive texture. It has great significance in the USA as stave wood (for whiskey). Used as veneer and lumber in all branches of the furniture, door and panel industries as well as fro making parquet floors and stairs.

Veneer for architectural woodwork or inlays, all kinds of handles, parts of woodwind instruments (but not for mouthpieces).

High quality architectural woodwork, high quality furniture. For price reasons often copied by fineline veneers (artificial Birdseye Maple). At the present time it is fashionable to colour-stain or dye Birdseye Maple in all thinkable colours (chemical treatment not permitted in Germany due to waste water contamination).

Due to its salient light-dark contrast, Goncalo Alves is perfectly suitable for the production of decorative veneer. Its extravagant colour combination, which often commemorates the skin of a tiger, makes the wood of the genus “astronium fraxinofolium” interesting especially for the furniture industry and the producers of panelling and ceiling lining. It is also utilized for shipbuilding and for the building constructions with extraordinary stress as well as for weaver’s shuttles and tools helves in the high – class sector as a special wood.

Being an excellent and less expensive alternative to Resewood or Cocobolo due to its similar appearance, Granadillo is used as well for exclusive furniture, both as veneer as well as solid wood. The wood is also used for instrument making. Special products such as violin bows or billiard cues are made of Granadillo, too.

In the past, the Puerto Ricans used Ipé as construction wood whereas today it is mainly used for stakes and masts there. Due to its high stability and potentialities as construction wood for highly stressed purposes in exterior (boat bridges, wooden terraces in gastronomy), it is very popular. Furthermore, it is used for furniture and boat building, for floorboards and panels, too handles and sports equipment. As veneer, Ipé is used for interior fittings and exclusive furniture.