The wood is very tough and has extensive interlocked grain.
Chinese elm wood grain.
Difficult to carve and carved by only experts.
Being so young there was very little heartwood formed yet the darker brown wood on the right half with the majority of the wood being sapwood light area on the left half of the scans.
Chinese elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan or flesh coloured while the sapwood approaches off white.
Elm wood was valued for its interlocking grain and consequent resistance to splitting with significant uses in wagon wheel hubs chair seats and coffins.
Unlike other elms freshly cut chinese elm has a peppery or spicy odour.
Eight species are endemic to north america and a smaller number to europe.
The most basic division of elm species is between hard and soft elm.
Elm heartwood ranges in tone from reddish brown to light tan while the sapwood approaches off white.
The usually dramatic grain resembles ash.
Per cubic foot dry.
Hard and soft scans pictures.
The hardest part of the process was the drying the lumber tried its best to warp every which way so i just piled more and more weight on top.
It is no longer found in china and is imported from southeast asia and africa to makers in china.
Shown below is a piece of lumber from a small tree that was killed by dutch elm disease.
We asked his opinion on some of the working and drying properties and this was his response.
Ulmiform patterning is evident even on the face grain of elm as thin zig zags between growth rings.
Moderately dense elm weighs nearly 40 lbs.
Siberian elm is often mistaken with ulmus parvifolia chinese elm even though they look completely different.
This sample was sent to us by eric beckman who is harvesting chinese elm.
It is one of the densest and hardest of woods.
The greatest diversity is found in china.
The wood of the hard elms sometimes referred to.