Wood Information
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Alder Wood
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Alder wood comes from the Birch family. It can grow up to 80-100 feet. The diameter of the trunk reaches up to 2 1/2 feet. The leaves consist of slim ovals, 2 1/2 to six inches long, sharply toothed. The fruit consists of scaly cones reaching up to 1 1/2 inches long, bearing small winged seeds. The sapwood is a white color while the heartwood is more of a cream or light brown, tinged with red. The grain pattern is straight, closed grained, fine textured and even. Wilding Wallbeds uses Alder wood for all doors and hardwood parts and Red Birch plywood for the plywood parts for the Alder beds. Red Birch plywood is similar to Alder plywood in appearance and is less expensive.
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Red Birch Plywood
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Alder
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Red Birch
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Oak Wood
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The oak tree can reach up to 80 feet tall. The trunk may reach up to three feet in diameter. The bark is a brown to black color, deeply fissured with vertical lines and cross breaks. The leaf is simple toothed and sharply pointed up to eight inches long with bristly ends. The fruit consists of one inch acorns that require two growing seasons. It has a pointed cap with a shallow cup. The sapwood is a grayish verde to pale reddish brown color while the heartwood is a flesh-colored to pinkish-to-light reddish brown. The grain pattern is straight and the texture is course.
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Red Oak
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Cherry Wood
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Some Cherry trees can grow up to 60 feet tall. The diameter of the trunk may reach up to three feet. The bark changes from a smooth red brown in young trees to a scaly black color with upraised plates in crisscrossing ridges in older trees. The leaves consist of alternating ovals, pointed with fine incurving teeth that can grow up to six inches long. The fruit consists of edible berries about 1/2 inch wide that turn dark red to purple when ripe. The sapwood is nearly green while the heartwood is a light pinkish brown to dark reddish brown color. The grain pattern is fine, straight, and close grained.
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Cherry
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Maple Wood
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The Maple tree can grow over 80 feet tall. The trunk may reach up to four feet in diameter. The bark is dark gray, furrowed and irregular. The leaf has five pointed sections and is up to five inches across. The fruit is a "U-shaped" pair of winged seeds, up to 1 1/2 inches long. The sapwood is a white or cream color while the heartwood is cream or white to a light reddish brown. The grain pattern is often straight, close grained, but can sometimes be wavy or curly.
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Maple
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Mahogany Wood
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Mahogany wood has a thick and rough grain, and is relatively free of pockets and voids. Mahogany wood has a reddish brown color which darkens over time and displays a beautiful reddish sheen when polished. It has excellent workability and is very durable. These properties make it great wood for making furniture, musical instruments, and other durable objects.
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Wilding Wallbeds uses the highest quality plywood sheets available to create a superior product. Wilding does not use any particle board in the construction of their Wall Beds and Cabinets. Particle board is the lightest and one of the weakest forms of fiberboard. Particle board is made from wood particles, such as wood chips, sawmill shavings, or saw dust, and a synthetic resin that glues everything together. One of the major disadvantages of particle board is that it is very succeptable to expansion and discoloration as a result of moisture.
Due to the natural characteristics of wood, random grain patterns, wood color differences, mineral streaking and random markings are all normal occurrences and will be present in all Wall Beds and side cabinets.
Products ordered at separate times will experience "Dye Lot" differences. This will create differences in the color of finished products. It is strongly recommended that all items be ordered at the same time.
Wilding Wallbeds is concerned about using "environmentally friendly" products. We are currently using Non-Toxic furniture-grade plywood, wood glue, and other products where available. Click here to read the L.A. Times article focusing on the issues of production and distribution of plywood with formaldehyde, a chemical which has been known to cause cancer.
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Thursday May 15, 2008
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