American Sycamore
American Sycamore: hardness, how it works, how much it moves, what it costs and what it is used for.
- Botanical name
- Platanus occidentalis
- Type
- hardwood
- Region
- North America
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 770 lbf
- Colour
- light tan with ray fleck
- Workability
- moderate
- MovementHow much it shrinks and swells with humidity
- high
- Price band
- low
- Typical uses
- Drawer sides, boxes, butcher blocks, quartersawn panels
- Working notes
- Interlocked grain; quartersawn shows a lace figure.
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