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Botanical name:
Fagus sylvatica
Growth area:
Europe, Western Asia, Japan and Eastern
North America
Quality:
- Saw blocks: 4
qualities
- Square-edged sawn timber: 3 qualities
- Square cuts 3 qualities
Colour of heartwood:
Older trees often have red heartwood with irregular forms. The Danish
beech is very light in colour. Steamed beech is pink to light red.
Colour of sapwood:
There is no clear difference between the heartwood and the sapwood.
Mass density:
670 - 800 kg/m_, 12 mm average
Grain:
Usually
rather extensive grain
Fissure:
Dry
fissure (collapse) may occur. The drying process must be executed with extreme
care. When processing the timber, it is desirable to adjust the wood humidity
rate to the relative humidity of the environment within which the wood is
applied.
Knots:
Small
and large knots occur.
Bio-substances:
The wood has no fragrance and does not contain any bio-substances, which
means beech is highly suitable for use within the nutrition sector. Sensitive
persons may sustain skin problems after contact with fresh beech.
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Mould and insects:
Wet wood is quickly invaded by mould.
Durability grade:
5 - not durable
Gluing:
Good
Machining:
Excellent for machining with HS cutting tools with hard-metal rebate
cutters equipped with pre-cutters to prevent splintering. Pre-drilling is
necessary. Beech is quite flexible and pliant.
Dekker range:
Standard dust thresholds in various sizes, see Elephant range under
Interior Door Frames.
General applications:
Beech is a species of wood almost exclusively used indoors. Furniture,
staircases, dust thresholds, parquet floors, gymnastics floors, household
objects such as kitchen tools, toys, panelling, shelves in the food industry,
tools and veneer work. Special composition of beech veneers compressed under
high pressure and impregnated, traded under the labels: Lignostone, Delignit and Panzerholz. This
material is used for gear wheels, break-resistant doors, special slides and
other articles requiring extreme strength. Unsteamed beech is predominantly
used for internal furniture components, such as sofa skeletons. A preservative
must be applied to cross bars for railroad tracks. |
