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Title: Identifying Wood: Accurate Results With Simple Tools by R. Bruce Hoadley ISBN: 0-942391-04-7 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: March, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: I've had this book for almost 2 years and it is the best I've seen. It is very well written and very thorough. It begins with an explanation of the structure of wood at the cellular level, in some cases, in rather great depth. There are chapters on techinques for obtaining and preparing wood samples as well as a description of some of the necessary instruments (hand lens, microscope etc). The sections on identification are divided up into softwoods, hardwoods and tropical woods. I will agree that the section on tropical woods is not as deep as the other two sections, but I would say its in proportion to the chances of you happening up on a piece of rare tropical wood and having to identify it. I have sucessfully indentified dozens of woods using this book. Be advised that a microscope is definately needed when using this book, in my humble opinion. It doesnt have to be a megabuck model, but 100-250x would be very helpful. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to go beyond the "if its brown, its walnut, if its white its maple" level, and get deeper into wood identification. ID-ing a chunk of wood is very satisfying and this book makes it possible!
Rating: 5
Summary: Addendum
Comment: Although this in no way detracts from the overall quality, there is (I feel duty-bound to point out) one completely wrong picture in this book. On page 170 there is a description of sipo / utile / Entandrophragma utile with an picture of an obviously entirely different wood. This is not mentioned in the Errata sheet included with this book. Also, but this is less important, the picture of sapele on page 169 is upside down (as are those of a few other woods here and there).
Rating: 5
Summary: A steal!
Comment: For those interested in identifying wood this book is a steal! This is not the only introductory text on the topic, but it sure is the most readable and the most accessible. The color pictures of the end grain are unparalled in any other book. The text is crystal clear and well paced. If this book has a flaw it is the focus on North American woods, at the cost of tropical woods, but you cannot have everything.
Actually I began with an understatement: this book would be a steal at twice the price!
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Title: Understanding Wood: A Craftman's Guide to Wood Technology by R. Bruce Hoadley ISBN: 1561583588 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Encyclopedia of Wood: A Tree-By-Tree Guide to the World's Most Valuable Resource by William Lincoln, Aidan Walker, John Makepeace, Bill Lincoln, Lucinda Leech, Luke Hughes ISBN: 0816021597 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: What Wood Is That: A Manual of Wood Identification by Herbert Leeson Edlin ISBN: 0670759074 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: The Woodbook by Klaus Ulrich Leistikow ISBN: 3822817422 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $99.99 |
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Title: World Woods in Color by William Alexander Lincoln ISBN: 0941936201 Publisher: Linden Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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