Chinese Elm Wood Grain

It is no longer found in china and is imported from southeast asia and africa to makers in china.

Chinese elm wood grain.

Elm wood was valued for its interlocking grain and consequent resistance to splitting with significant uses in wagon wheel hubs chair seats and coffins. It is one of the densest and hardest of woods. Siberian elm is often mistaken with ulmus parvifolia chinese elm even though they look completely different. Chinese elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan or flesh coloured while the sapwood approaches off white.

Eight species are endemic to north america and a smaller number to europe. This sample was sent to us by eric beckman who is harvesting chinese elm. Per cubic foot dry. Unlike other elms freshly cut chinese elm has a peppery or spicy odour.

The wood itself is rare very hard with fine lined grain. Hard and soft scans pictures. The most basic division of elm species is between hard and soft elm. The usually dramatic grain resembles ash.

Shown below is a piece of lumber from a small tree that was killed by dutch elm disease. The greatest diversity is found in china. Difficult to carve and carved by only experts. Ulmiform patterning is evident even on the face grain of elm as thin zig zags between growth rings.

Elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan while the sapwood approaches off white. The hardest part of the process was the drying the lumber tried its best to warp every which way so i just piled more and more weight on top. The wood is very tough and has extensive interlocked grain. Being so young there was very little heartwood formed yet the darker brown wood on the right half with the majority of the wood being sapwood light area on the left half of the scans.

The wood of the hard elms sometimes referred to. Interlocked grain means that the lengthwise grain from year to year goes different directions instead of being perfectly vertical in the.