Shannon's Lumber Industry Update
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Shannon's Lumber Industry Update
An 8/4, Kiln dried podcast all about lumber and your questions about it. Let's dispel some myths and broaden an understanding of this ancient industry and help us all become a little more wood savvy...woodier??
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156 - Catalpa
The featured lumber species today is Catalpa. A very oak like tree but with a really soft workability. High quality, clear lumber that is easy to wo...
155 Composite Lumber
Today I fight my strong wood bias and take time to talk about composite lumber. All the various plastic boards you will find on the market from wood...
154 - Buckeye
My featured species this episode is Buckeye. Its a non commercial species but not terribly hard to find and has some unique color and high propensity...
153 Hard to Source Woods
How do you find unusual and typically non commercial wood species? In this episode I give some tips to help the listener build a network of wood sour...
152 Monkeypod
Monkeypod is a great timber coming out of Costa Rica that is almost entirely FSC. It is often sold as wider slabs due to the lighter weight and the w...
151 - Plantation vs Natural Forests
Let's define plantations and natural forests and talk about what we can expects from the lumber coming from plantations. Also how plantations can evo...
150 - Hickory
It could be said that Hickory built America. Hickory's properties made the American felling axe possible with its extremely high MOR and MOE values....
149 Douglas Fir
Douglas Fir is a species we find everywhere. So much so that we may not even know we are looking at it. It has two distinctly different markets: con...
148 - Common Lumber, Common Uses
What are the markets for the common species of lumber you find at your hardwood lumber dealer. I delve into who is buying what and for what. Plus fu...
147 - Parota
This time I featured Parota or Guanacaste. The Costa Rican national tree and known for being avialable in wide slabs of red, ribbony goodness. I als...
146 - They Don't Grow 'Em Like They Use To
Time to revisit the old stud torn from a building that is compared to the new stud fresh from the big box store. But more to the point, let's take a...
145 - London Plane
This episode's featured species is London Plane or Plantanus hybridia. Nearly identical to American Sycamore it is a fun blonde wood option with a st...
144 Windwood LLC
My guest today is Mark Dubac of Windwood LLC in Portland, OR. Mark has a reputation on social media for humorous posts about the sawmilling world. O...
143 Red Maple
Red Maple is also sold as Soft Maple and it is one of the species of Maple commonly found in the Soft Maple group like Big Leaf, Silver, and Striped M...
142 - Thermalwood Canada
In this episode I have the CEO of Thermalwood Canada, Bob Lennon on to talk about thermally modified wood. Thermalwood is a member of the Thermowood...
141 - Persimmon | North American Ebony
Today I highlight Persimmon wood as a lumber source. The North American Ebony. Then dive into the variety of decking products on the market and thei...
140 - Camp Small
Today I have Shaun Preston, the Director of Camp Small, Baltimore Urban wood recycling center and saw mill. Baltimore leads the nation in its treatme...
139 Holly
Holly is a shockingly pure white in color with almost no visible grain. But it stains quickly if not felled, sawn and dried in the same day. Moreove...
138 Compressed Wood
This episode is the Venn diagram of me. I talk nerdy sciency stuff related to wood that can be moulded into high bike frames. What a perfect conflue...
137 White Oak
This time I feature White Oak but spend time talking more generally about the Oaks and the differences between the Red Oak group and the White Oak gro...
136 - Curly Figure
This week I dive into curly figure in wood. Curl encompasses a lot of different types like blister, pommele, beeswing, fiddleback, etc. I look at wh...
135 - Magical Woods
In this special Halloween episode I will talk about magical woods. Woods with folklore and mystery that surround them. A listener who has a Harry Po...
134 - TimberHP Wood Fiber Insulation
Today I have guest Dan Edelman from TimberHP a wood fiber insulation company out of Maine. This company has create 3 insulation products: fill, batte...
133 Narra Wood
Today I discuss the featured species, Narra. It is a beautiful SE Asian wood mostly known in its burl form where it is called Amboyna Burl. Narra is...
132 - What are Burls?
Today I talk about burls. What are they to the best of our knowledge and how to work them. But I also spend a fair bit of time talking about genuine...
131 - Tamo Ash
This week I feature the Tamo Ash, Fraxinus mandshurica. It is a species of Ash primarily sought for the unique "peanut" figure. Like a lot of figure...
130 - Healthy Forests
What is a healthy forest? Today I have a guest, Nick Smith from Healthy Forests to talk about it. Nick is the executive director and he is the man b...
129 - Sweet Chestnut
The featured species of the month is Sweet Chestnut or European Chestnut. Similar of course to the blighted American Chestnut, but the Sweet variety...
128 - Wood Toxicity
Wood dust is a major health risk. Mostly as a cumulative effect (AKA sensitizer) that can sneak up on us and ruin your health after decades of workin...
127 Eastern Cottonwood
This time I feature the Eastern Cottonwood and actually do some field reporting on it as I was recently out in the prairie states. I also go some tim...
126 Hemlock
Today I discuss Hemlock, our featured species. This is a wood with an identity crisis. Its long been a mainstay in construction lumber yet has more...
125 Monocots
Today I look at Monocots. The Bamboo and Palms that you may have seen showing up in flooring or plywood or even turning blanks. I also answer questi...
124 Wood Structure from a Rocket Scientist
This week I welcome Brandon Long, a structural engineer who plays as a woodworker at night. Brandon actually knows what he is talking about when it c...
123 - Wood Cell Structure & Sapele
A word of warning on this episode. New levels of nerdery on display here. If I had a white lab coat I would have worn it while recording. To sum up...
122 The News Show
Lots of breaking news in the Lumber world and it was time I dust off my teleprompter and read everything that is on it. News from Notre Dame, the Par...
121 - American Hornbeam
Today we talk about American Hornbeam, why some trees are brittle, fast growing trees for lumber, IBAMA strike and the CITES impact, and a possible so...
120 - Wood Legacy
Let's talk about grassroots sustainability and how giving back as users of wood can start with education and grow into all kinds of programs for and i...
119 Iroko
Iroko or African Teak is the featured species this month. Found all across tropical Africa, the Iroko tree is enormous producing wide and long boards...
118 - Wood Strength??
Wood strength is a loaded statement. There are so many factors in HOW we use a board that determine which properties we look to for strength. This q...
117 - Yellow Birch
The featured species this month is Yellow Birch, Betula alleghensis. Its the most common Birch species and used for a wide variety of applications fr...