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Ash

American ash is similar in appearance to European ash. The sapwood is light colored to nearly white and the heartwood varies from grayish brown to light brown, to pale yellow streaked with brown. The wood is generally straight grained with a coarse uniform texture. The degree and availability of light colored sapwood, and other properties, will vary according to the growing regions.

Basswood

Basswood is usually quite large and creamy white in color, merging into the heartwood which is pale to reddish brown, sometimes with darker streaks. The wood has a fine uniform texture and indistinct grain that is straight.

Birdseye Maple

Birdseye Maple is a domestic hardwood. The Birdseye figure is found in heartwood and sapwood. Both can be breathtaking. The boards are from Maple logs with irregular growth. The figure resembles the figure in a burl. It contains a small "eye" like in a burl, but it is more distinct. Each eye stands out separately. Small circular or elliptical areas resembling bird’s eyes on the tangential surface of the wood are formed by indented fibers. Birdseye figure is caused by a stunted growth, developed during the years the tree lacked space and sunshine.

Cherry

Cherry varies from rich red to reddish brown and will darken with exposure to light. In contrast the sapwood is creamy white. The wood has a fine uniform straight grain, smooth texture, and may naturally contain brown pith flecks and small gum pockets. The longer this is exposed to sunlight the deeper the color gets.
 

Hard Maple

Hard Maple’s heartwood is reddish-brown to light tan, while the sapwood is nearly white. It has a fine uniform texture and is very strong and hard. This wood has a close grain and because of it’s strength and stiffness, it ranks as one of the more valuable hardwoods. The sapwood is creamy white with a slight reddish brown tinge and the heartwood varies from light to dark reddish brown. The amount of darker brown heartwood can vary significantly according to growing region. Both sapwood and heartwood can contain pith fleck. The wood has close fine texture and is generally straight grained, but it can also occur as "curly", "fiddleback", and "birds-eye" figure.

Red Oak

Red oak is white to light brown and the heartwood is a pinkish reddish brown. The wood is similar in general appearance to white oak, but with a slightly less pronounced figure due to the smaller rays. The wood is mostly straight grained, with a coarse texture. The red oak tree gets its name because of the color of the leaves in the fall.
 

Mahogany

Mahogany is medium to dark red brown with white resin streaks. The grain is interlocked and the texture is rather coarse. Philippine Mahogany is hard and strong. The redder the wood, the greater its weight and density.

Walnut

Walnut is a tough, hard timber of medium density, with moderate bending and crushing strength and low stiffness. It has good steam bending qualities. The sapwood of walnut is creamy white, while the heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, occasionally with a purplish cast and darker streaks. Walnut can be supplied steamed to darken sapwood or left unsteamed. The wood is generally straight grained, but sometimes with wavy or curly grain that produces an attractive and decorative figure.

White Oak

White oak is similar in color and appearance to European oak. The sapwood of American white oak is light in color and the heartwood is light to dark brown. White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture, with longer rays than red oak, giving it more figure.