Aspen is excellent for mouldings toys and caskets.
Bigtooth aspen hardwood or softwood.
Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods.
It is fine grained uniform in texture and generally lacks a distinctive pattern.
Closely related to poplar.
Aspen is commonly harvested as lumber and is used for pulpwood in paper manufacture.
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Wide planks of aspen lumber should be available within its natural range for a modest price.
Aspen has creamy white sapwood with heartwood that changes from brown to greyish white without any visible transition.
Aspen bigtooth aspen populus grandidentata.
This happens to be generally true but there are exceptions such as in the cases of wood from yew trees a softwood that is relatively hard and wood from balsa trees a.
Aspen is a great all purpose wood and good for beginner woodworkers.
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Midwest and northeast united states.
Other soft hardwoods.
Aspen wood is white and soft but fairly strong.