Tropical Wood Research for the Furniture Industry

This is a summary of some of the work on the evaluation of tropical woods conducted at the Yale School of Forestry for the Office of Naval Research, Navy Department. Positive identification of species was assured through the selection of representative standing trees by botanists, foresters, and lumbermen, and was aided by collection of herbarium specimens and comparison of materials with the Yale wood collection of 45,000 specimens. The mechanical, physical, seasoning, machining, and steam bending properties of 12 tropical woods are compared with such established furniture woods as black cherry, mahogany, black walnut, and white oak. Judging from these comparisons, several of the tropical species reported on appear to have properties that would make them valuable additions to our list of tropical furniture species.

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