Wood Slabs & Lumber Toronto

Colour – Darker wood tone
Density – High density, Medium texture, fairly lightweight.
Grain – Straight fine grain
Common Uses – High-end furniture, carving, flooring, musical instruments, and gun stocks.
Finishing – Natural finish or oil.

Black walnut slabs are dark, hard, and dense with straight tight grains and irregular texture (waves or curls) and are the most common and popular choice for our clients.

Walnut has a rich colour that ranges from chocolate brown (heartwood) to yellow (outer of the tree). The most assuring quality of the black walnut wood we carry is the natural resistance to decay and insects.

Black Walnut’s heartwood can range from a lighter pale brown to dark chocolate brown with even darker brown streaks. Sometimes, it will have a grey, purple, or reddish cast. Black Walnut sapwood is pale yellow-grey to nearly white.

Its grain is usually straight, but sometimes can be irregular.

Walnut is one of the most valuable and unique species of hardwoods. It is rare and is often used for higher-end furniture.

Black walnut is one of the most durable hardwood and it also works well with multiple types of materials such as glue, stain, and finishes. This hardwood has good dimensional stability, shock resistance, and strength properties.

Due to its quality, black walnut is considered a premium domestic hardwood, its price is in the higher range among all the other hardwoods and the price goes higher because of its increasing demand and decreasing supply of black walnut trees.

Colour – Light Brown & Pinkish red
Density – Very hard and strong.
Grain – Varied and openly porous grain patterns.
Common Uses – Furniture, cabinets, moulding, trim, flooring, panelling, turning.
Finishing – Natural finish or oil, but they may vary. The stain is commonly used in finishing.

Oakwood is another common type of wood when it comes to furniture making. Oak Lumber is highly durable and its grain pattern is quite unique, which makes it one of the easier species to recognize and it looks great stained or with a natural finish. Its unusual patterns give a lot of character to design or space.

Although there are more than 600 species of oak trees, the most common species are red and white oak. Both have visible growth rings, straight grains and are light brown, although red oak has a reddish tone.

White Oak Wood

White Oak is one of the most popular hardwoods. It is hard and heavy with medium bending and crushing strength, but low in stiffness.

White oak’s heartwood is a light to medium brown, its sapwood is light-coloured, and its grain is straight with a coarse uneven texture. White Oak has a very high rot resistance, it is very durable. White oak is hard and heavy with medium bending and crushing strength, but low in stiffness. However, it reacts really well to steam-bending. It is one of the common woods used in boat building due to its great wear-resistance.

Red Oak Wood

Red oak is as popular and widely used as white oak. It is the most abundant species, it is more abundant than white oaks. Compared to White oak, Red oak, just like its name suggested, it has more of a pinkish-reddish brown tone, however, the heartwood of red oak is around the same colour as the white oak.

The wood itself is similar to white oak, but red oak has smaller rays compared to white oak. Red oak is hard and heavy with medium bending and stiffness, with high crushing strength.
Finally, it is a relatively inexpensive wood, while the price for white oak is a little bit higher.

Colour –Nearly white to an off-white cream colour. But it can be reddish or golden hue.
Density – Moderately hard but strong.
Grain – Closed and generally straight
Common Uses – Everything from furniture and woodenware to flooring and millwork.
Finishing – Takes all finishes.

Maple flourishes in southeastern Canada and the largest quantities of hard maple wood are found around the Great Lakes.

The maple tree is sturdy, resistant to splitting and durable. It remains strong when bent, absorbs shock well, works nicely with both power and hand tools, and resists to wear and to insect attack. These qualities make it is ideal for dining, kitchen and other furniture that takes abuse, such as desks, workbenches, countertops and butcher blocks. Maple is a relatively inexpensive hardwood.

Hard Maple Lumber

Another name for Hard maple is Sugar maple because this specific type of tree is usually used to gather maple syrup. Hard maple is considered the king of the Acer genus (general maple species). Hard maple is a lot stronger, stiffer, harder, and denser than all of the maple species.

Hard maple’s sapwood, the outer layer of the wood between the heartwood and the bark, are often used in lumber. Sapwood colour ranges from nearly white to an off-white cream colour, occasionally with a reddish or golden hue.

Hard maple’s heartwood, wood near the center, tends to have a darker reddish-brown. Hard maple’s grain consists of fine, generally straight uniformed lines. It has no excessive odour from the wood. Hard maple has a high resistance to abrasion and wear. It also acquires steam-bending properties.

Wormy maple

Also known as Ambrosia Maple. Ambrosia (Wormy) maple is not a distinct species of maple such as hard maple or soft maple, the reason for the name is to specifically describe a fungal discoloration caused by wood-boring beetles, Ambrosia beetles.

The Ambrosia beetles bore into the trunk of the trees, bringing the ambrosia fungi which stain and discolour the surrounding wood, creating a unique pattern.
Most Ambrosia (Wormy) maple is found in species of soft maple, these include red maple, silver maple, box elder, striped maple, and bigleaf maple.

Colour – Beige or creamy-brown.
Density – Tough, flexible.
Grain – Open-grained with occasional brown streaks.
Common Uses – Fine Furniture, Flooring, millwork, boxes/crates, baseball bats, and other turned objects such as tool handles.
Finishing – Takes all finishes.

Ash trees are medium to large trees that grow throughout the east coast, Canada and other parts of the world and it’s known for its durability. Ashwood is a light brown coloured and smooth-grained hardwood that is a very attractive option for fine furniture.

Its sapwood can be very wide and it can have a colour variation from beige to light brown. White ash’s heartwood and sapwood are relatively close in colour. Its grain is usually always straight and regular, its texture is similar to oak, coarse.

White Ash has great overall strength properties, it also has excellent shock resistance and works great with steam bending. They are the least expensive utility hardwoods available in North America, they are around the same price with oak.

White ash is commonly used for tool handles where toughness and impact resistance is the most important. Finally, ash slabs are a relatively inexpensive wood type.