Some materials are synonymous with luxury — marble, lacquer, mohair. Then there’s burl wood, the most characterful of them all, despite its rather unfortunate backstory. Technically a tree’s tumor, it ...

COMAND cockpit management & data system -inc: 40-GB hard-drive-based navigation system, Bluetooth interface, enhanced voice control, Harman Kardon sound system, AM/FM stereo, integrated 6-disc CD ...

Back some 30 years ago, I read that most of the wood ash produced in Canada for power and recovery boilers went to landfills, with less than three per cent for cropland application. Even today only 37 ...

Stability. With the low shrinkage and straight grain, the wood is extremely stable in use. Strength. Unlike its sister species black walnut, butternut is quite weak. The strength (MOR) is 8100 psi ...