Douglas-Fir
Douglas-Fir: hardness, how it works, how much it moves, what it costs and what it is used for.
- Botanical name
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- Type
- softwood
- Region
- North America
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 620 lbf
- Colour
- light brown to reddish
- Workability
- moderate
- MovementHow much it shrinks and swells with humidity
- low
- Price band
- low
- Typical uses
- Framing, beams, doors, workbenches
- Working notes
- Stiff and strong for its weight; splinters along the grain; straight-grained in vertical-grain boards.
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