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    The document ranks and describes the hardness and common uses of 75 types of wood. It measures wood hardness using the Janka hardness test of the force required to embed a steel ball into wood samples. The hardest wood is Australian Buloke at 5,060 lbf, and the softest is Yellow Buckeye at 67 lbf. Common uses include flooring, furniture, boats, tools, and musical instruments.

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    The document ranks and describes the hardness and common uses of 75 types of wood. It measures wood hardness using the Janka hardness test of the force required to embed a steel ball into wood samples. The hardest wood is Australian Buloke at 5,060 lbf, and the softest is Yellow Buckeye at 67 lbf. Common uses include flooring, furniture, boats, tools, and musical instruments.

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    75 Tools

    Types of Wood
    Ranked by Hardness
    And How They Are Used
    Decorative Boats Buoys Matches Paper
    Flooring Archery Bows Fencing Surfboards Framing Piano Keys
    Railroad Exterior Pallets Toys Snowshoes Baseball Bats
    Lumber
    Furniture Cabinetry Ladders Crates Utility Poles Electric
    Guitars
    Musical Small Objects Firewood Construction
    Instruments

    The Janka hardness test measures how resistant wood is to denting and wear. It measures the force required
    to embed a 0.444-inch (11.28 mm) steel ball halfway into the wood sample.
    Lbf = Pound-force N = Newtons
    5,060 LBf 4,800 LBf 4,570 LBf 4,500 LBf 4,270 LBf
    22,500 N 21,000 N 20,340 N 20,000 N 18,990 N
    4 0 0 0 LBf

    Australian Baraúna Quebracho Guayacan Gidgee


    Buloke
    Allocasuarina Schinopsis Schinopsis Lignum vitae Acacia cambagei
    luehmannii brasiliensis quebracho-colorado
    3,800 LBf 3,710 LBf 3,680 LBf 3,670 LBf 3,664 LBf
    17,000 N 16,520 N 16,370 N 16,320 N 16,300 N

    Snakewood Verawood Camelthorn African Grey Ironbark


    Blackwood Eucalyptus
    Brosimum guianense Bulnesia arborea Vachellia erioloba Dalbergia melanoxylon paniculata
    3,660 LBf 3,660 LBf 3,630 LBf 3,510 LBf 3,330 LBf
    16,260 N 16,260 N 16,150 N 15,620 N 14,800 N

    Katalox Black Ironwood Curupay Ipe Camaru


    Swartzia cubensis Krugiodendron Anadenanthera Handroanthus spp. Dipteryx odorata
    ferreum colubrina
    3,260 LBf 3,130 LBf 2,960 LBf 2,940 LBf 2,900 LBf
    14,500 N 13,920 N 14,140 N 13,080 N 12,900 N
    3 0 0 0 LBf

    Desert Bulletwood Cocobolo African Bloodwood


    Ironwood Manilkara bidentata Dalbergia retusa Mesquite Brosimum rubescens
    Olneya tesota Prosopis africana
    2,790 LBf 2,690 LBf 2,680 LBf 2,620 LBf 2,520 LBf
    12,410 N 11,950 N 12,920 N 11,640 N 11,190 N

    Brazilian Jatoba Live Oak Osage Orange Purpleheart


    Rosewood Hymenaea courbaril Quercus virginiana Maclura pomifera Peltogyne spp.
    Dalbergia nigra
    2,410 LBf 2,400 LBf 2,370 LBf 2,340 LBf 2,330 LBf
    10,720 N 10,680 N 10,550 N 10,410 N 10,360 N

    Bubinga Santos Blue Gum Honey Spotted Gum


    Mahogany Eucalyptus Mesquite
    Guibourtia spp. Myroxylon balsamum Prosopis glandulosa Corymbia maculata
    globulus
    2,170 LBf 2,150 LBf 2,140 LBf 2,030 LBf 1,970 LBf
    9,640 N 9,550 N 9,520 N 9,030 N 8,760 N
    2 0 0 0 LBf

    Goncalo Burma Padauk Pignut Karri Mockernut


    Alves Pterocarpus Hickory Eucalyptus Hickory
    Astronium graveolens macrocarpus Carya glabra diversicolor Carya tomentosa
    1,930 LBf 1,860 LBf 1,840 LBf 1,830 LBf 1,810 LBf
    8,590 N 8,270 N 7,620 N 8,160 N 8,100 N

    Pistachio Jarrah Merbau Zebrawood Shellbark


    Pistacia vera Eucalyptus Intsia bijuga Microberlinia Hickory
    marginata brazzavillensis Carya laciniosa
    1,780 LBf 1,700 LBf 1,550 LBf 1,390 LBf 1,320 LBf
    7,940 N 7,560 N 6,900 N 6,200 N 5,870 N

    Amendoim Black Locust Plum Apricot White Ash


    Pterogyne nitens Robinia pseudoacacia Prunus domestica Prunus armeniaca Fraxinus americana

    1,300 LBf 1,210 LBf 1,150 LBf 1,070 LBf 1,060 LBf
    5,780 N 5,380 N 5,120 N 4,740 N 4,720 N

    American Black Oak Sweet Cherry Teak Southern


    Beech Quercus velutina Prunus avium Tectona grandis Red Oak
    1 0 0 0 LBf

    Fagus grandifolia Quercus falcata


    1,010 LBf 950 LBf 910 LBf 900 LBf 900 LBf
    4,490 N 4,230 N 4,050 N 4,000 N 4,000 N

    Tamo Ash Red Maple Paper Birch Aromatic Honduran


    Fraxinus Acer rubrum Betula papyrifera Red Cedar Mahogany
    mandshurica Juniperus virginiana Swietenia macrophylla
    840 LBf 770 LBf 720 LBf 710 LBf 620 LBf
    3,740 N 3,430 N 3,200 N 3,160 N 2,760 N

    Northern Sycamore Box Elder Lacewood Douglas Fir


    Silky Oak Platanus Acer negundo Panopsis rubescens Pseudotsuga
    Cardwellia sublimis occidentalis menziesii
    590 LBf 510 LBf 500 LBf 450 LBf 430 LBf
    5 0 0 LBf

    2,620 N 2,270 N 2,220 N 2,000 N

    Tamarack Cypress Eastern Redwood Eastern


    Larix larcina Taxodium distichum Hemlock Sequoia Cottonwood
    Tsuga canadensis sempervirens Populus deltoides
    420 LBf 390 LBf 380 LBf 380 LBf 350 LBf
    1,870 N 1,740 N 1,690 N 1,690 N

    Western Maritime Pine Sugar Pine Eastern Yellow


    White Pine Pinus pinaster Pinus lambertiana White Pine Buckeye
    Pinus monticola Pinus strobus Aesculus flava
    350 LBf 320 LBf 320 LBf 300 LBf 67 LBf
    1,560 N 1,420 N 1,420 N 1,330 N 300 N

    Atlantic European Monkey Puzzle Paulownia Balsa


    White Cedar Silver Fir Araucaria araucana Paulownia Ochroma pyramidale
    Chamaecyparis thyoides Abies alba tomentosa
    Sources: wood-database.com

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