Infographic on Wood

[pjs]

Hey Guys, we've created this infographic for Furniture UK - it highlights the main differences in various types of wood. It's very interesting and informative, it talks about the heaviest types of wood, the most expensive, a brief bit on tree-ring dating and a section detailing which woods are most suited to certain applications. The info might be a bit basic for the forum but I thought you might be interested in seeing it in any case, I'd love to get your feedback on it.

*it looks like I cant post it as I'm new to the forums! I'll try it again later.

 

[pjs]

does anyone know how many posts you have to make before you can share an image?

Cheers,

Peter

 

[marcros]

you can upload it from your hard drive straight away i think. To post links, or photographs hosted by the likes of photobucket I believe that it is 3 posts.

 

[pjs]

Cheers Marcros, it's too big to attach, I'll try and embed it in my next post

 

[pjs]

here's the infographic we created for our client Furniture UK

Let me know what you think of it - did we miss anything out do you think?

 

[Sgian Dubh]

"These rings can be one of two types"

I don't think this is correct. The word can in the above quotation suggests your following description may, or may not apply, which is not the case. There's also an implication in your phrasing of the subsequent text that suggests the spring growth and the summer growth might be two growth rings rather than both being constituent parts of a single growth ring. What I think you really need to say is something like "Each annual growth ring of trees native to regions with distinctive seasons, e.g., summer/winter or dry/monsoon is divided into two parts as follows. The early (e.g., spring) growth portion is usually characterised by more open spongy tissue, whereas the late (e.g., summer) growth portion is generally denser and stiffer."

I recognise that in a compressed visual graphic such as the one you've produced there's limited room, and you probably don't have space to differentiate between ring porous wood species and diffuse porous species, the different functions of spring growth and summer growth, and so on, but I believe the phrasing I've suggested (perhaps modified to suit the space available) is better. Slainte.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

pjs - take heed of the man above - he knows.

 

[Spindle]

Hi

Was elm really used for baskets? my first thoughts of a use elm was put to will always be as chair seats.

Why do you quote in USD for a UK targeted audience?

Regards Mick

 

[Sgian Dubh]

I've had another wee look and some things you might like to consider come to mind in your descriptions of wood.

Oak: presumably you mean the white oaks, not red oaks, which are not suitable for either cooper work or exterior woodwork.

Mahogany: which ones? the Swietenia and Khaya genera are not the same, although they belong to the same family.

Maple: hard or soft? There are about 70 species within the genus Acer.

Elm is native to Europe as well as North America, but it's a different species.

Redwood: do you mean Pinus Sylvestris (aka Scots Pine), a Sequoia or a Sequoiadendron? Presumably the first suggested which, if that's the case, is not native or indigenous to North America, but it is native to Europe and Asia.

It may be worth considering being a little more specific about which wood you are describing when you suggest its uses or its native range. For instance, when you say mahogany, consider appending the Latin binomial name, e.g., Khaya ivorensis and/or Swietenia macrophylla so there is no ambiguity in what follows, assuming the rest of the description is accurate of course. In my mind there is a difference in the working properties, appearance and perhaps even some of the uses that South American mahogany or African mahogany might be put to. In other words, not all mahoganies are the same. Slainte.

 

[Racers]

Is Rosewood really a softwood?

How about explaining the difference between hardwood and softwood? most people I know thing it to do with how hard the wood is.

Pete

 

[Sgian Dubh]

Is Rosewood really a softwood? Pete

Well spotted. I missed that. It's a hardwood, i.e., an angiosperm, therefore, by definition, its seeds are protected by an outer case, with exceptions such as alder proving the rule. That's much the same as larch is the exception, through shedding its leaves during the cold months, that the gymnosperms (softwoods) are evergreen. Slainte.

 

[tomf]

I wonder if pjs will be back

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Why not? - he asked for feedback.

 

[cornishjoinery]

Sgian: I think you have missed the point on this poster or leaflet. Its just a general information pack to show users the different species and their GENERAL uses. If you could sit their and read through a poster/leaflet or the 40+ species of Mahogany then you are a better man than I lol.

 

[Sgian Dubh]

Sgian: I think you have missed the point on this poster or leaflet. Its just a general information pack to show users the different species and their GENERAL uses. If you could sit their and read through a poster/leaflet or the 40+ species of Mahogany then you are a better man than I lol.

I don't disagree with that, but misinformation surely can't be considered useful, can it? Mahogany, for example, is a name that some sellers apply to stuff that isn't even mahogany, e.g., Philippine 'mahogany'. This stuff is a species of the genus Shorea, family Dipterocarpaceae, as opposed to the family Meliaceae to which mahogany of various types belong. Slainte.

 

[pjs]

I wonder if pjs will be back

Ha! Yes - thanks for all the feedback! and thanks too for the Rosewood spot - the client this was piece was designed for is FurnitureUK (http://www.furnitureUK.co.uk). I've since had the infographic updated to reflect the fact that Rosewood is indeed a hardwood.



grma, Sgian Dubh, is Gaeilgeoir mise chomh maith!

 

[Sgian Dubh]

I've since had the infographic updated to reflect the fact that Rosewood is indeed a hardwood.

What other updates or corrections do you intend to make? Apart from that one change I can't see that you've updated or corrected anything else, and it looks like the errors and ambiguities I observed before are still there. Incidentally, I forgot to mention earlier that I noticed there are references to 'lumber' in some of the descriptions, e.g., construction lumber for fir. Whilst it's not wrong it's essentially American terminology and I think I'd change that to construction timber because I'm assuming the majority of viewers and buyers are likely to be British.

If I was undertaking this task for Furniture.uk I wouldn't present the latest infographic to them as a finished item. It really needs what I suspect is just a little more work for it to convey the right (accurate) information in a concise manner. Slainte.

 

[tomf]

Come on he did not really post it here for feedback he just wanted a back link to that site for his SEO....