--- product_id: 58530128 title: "WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide" price: "S$88" currency: SGD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sg/products/58530128-wood-identifying-and-using-hundreds-of-woods-worldwide store_origin: SG region: Singapore --- # 350+ woods profiled Detailed scientific data 100+ full-page wood photos WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide **Price:** S$88 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌲 Unlock the secrets of wood — master your craft with every page! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide - **How much does it cost?** S$88 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sg](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/58530128-wood-identifying-and-using-hundreds-of-woods-worldwide) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Strength & Texture Insights:** Detailed data on wood strength, grain, and texture to guide your project choices. - • **Comprehensive Wood Encyclopedia:** Explore over 350 wood species with in-depth profiles and practical insights. - • **Balanced Craft & Science Approach:** Perfect blend of artisan perspective and scientific rigor for real-world woodworking. - • **High-Quality Visual Identification:** 100+ full-page and 100+ half-page detailed wood images to sharpen your ID skills. - • **Curated for Woodworkers & Aficionados:** A must-have reference that elevates your craft and knowledge, backed by expert research. ## Overview WOOD! is a meticulously researched hardcover guide featuring over 350 wood species with detailed scientific data, high-quality images, and practical identification tips. Combining craftsperson insight with scientific depth, it’s the ultimate resource for woodworkers seeking to elevate their material knowledge and project precision. ## Description Understanding Earth’s most fascinating natural resource: books about wood usually come from one of two very opposite poles: there are either craft-oriented books filled mainly with pretty pictures, but with very weak or vague data, or there are thinly veiled scientific books, filled with an over-abundance of data: burying the uninitiated in microscope images and confusing terminology. This book hopes to selectively bring together the best of both worlds: written from a craftsperson’s perspective, it also seeks to glean the wealth of scientific knowledge and bring it into practical reach for woodworkers everywhere. Over 350 woods covered. 100+ full-page profiles. 100+ half-page profiles for less-common woods. Guides for distinguishing lookalike woods. Detailed identification data and strength properties. Review: Excellent new book about wood - Eric Meier, who owns/runs The Wood Database web site has now published a really good wood book, called "Wood! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide". It’s better than most of the other reference books I have. The introductory chapters about wood structure, etc, are REALLY good. He’s clearly put a lot of time, research, and thought into this and it shows. No book with just introductory chapters on wood characteristics will ever rival Hoadley’s “Understanding Wood”, but Eric's is better than most such sets of introductory chapters and it might be the best around. I haven’t read enough detail yet to be sure. Another bit of good news is that he covers a lot of woods. I haven't counted them but the "Hundreds" in the title is not an exaggeration. Like all books, its biggest drawback in being helpful for wood ID is that it has only one picture of each wood. As we all know, most woods don't really have a "representative" look that would help ID every piece of that wood. That's why my site has LOTS of pics of each wood. Eric chose to use a full size image, so it is of necessity of a very modest sized area (about 4" square) of each sample. The good news about this is that it shows the graininess of the face quite well. The bad news is that it's too close up to give a good feel for what the a plank of the wood actually looks like. Eric has also included a picture for most of the more common woods of an object made using the wood, which helps. His choice of pieces of each wood to photograph is good, his photography is excellent, and the color plates are good but do suffer pretty severely from the problem of darkening. I corresponded w/ Eric about this and he is frustrated by it. His original images were quite good and in the proof copy he approved they looked good on the page, but when they were printed on glossy paper, there was a lot of darkening. The affect of this on the accuracy of the wood color varies, but it's a problem in all such books. A further advantage of this book is that Eric has images of, and discussions of, the end grain closeups that can be so important in doing wood identification. Sadly, the darkening of the pics is the worst on some of these, compounded by a loss of contrast/detail, to the point of making them not very useful. The end grain pics on his site are much better. Like most such references that have end grain pics (the few that HAVE end grain pics) it suffers from the fact that it's not much help in identifying a wood unless you have a pretty good guess about what wood it is, or at least can narrow it down to a small number of possibilities. That's why on my site's anatomy pages I categorize the end grain pics so that you can use the characteristics of an unknown wood to target the search (for example, ring porous -> large rays -> parencyhama characteristics -> etc.). Hoadley has a decision tree that helps do the same thing. Anyway, I consider this a great addition to my bookshelf. Eric said it took him 6 years to get it done and I believe it. It was time well spent. There's more good stuff I could go on about, but buy one and you'll see what I mean :smile Review: For the Wood Aficionado and Woodworker who wants more info on Selecting woods - A Medium sized Hardcover book, with excellent scientific introduction to grain pattern, textures, colors, hardness, and various wood facts, then goes into a index of various select woods along with scientific names, species info, closeup photos.. Each glossy page has nice photos of the wood in finished/unfinished samples. Was reluctant to spend the money on it, but if you are into wood/woodworking, this is a MUST. Pleased with this purchase. ## Features - Brand New in box. The product ships with all relevant accessories ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #82,028 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,730 in Crafts & Hobbies (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 642 Reviews | ## Images ![WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91WPcKmv53L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent new book about wood *by P***S on January 1, 2016* Eric Meier, who owns/runs The Wood Database web site has now published a really good wood book, called "Wood! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide". It’s better than most of the other reference books I have. The introductory chapters about wood structure, etc, are REALLY good. He’s clearly put a lot of time, research, and thought into this and it shows. No book with just introductory chapters on wood characteristics will ever rival Hoadley’s “Understanding Wood”, but Eric's is better than most such sets of introductory chapters and it might be the best around. I haven’t read enough detail yet to be sure. Another bit of good news is that he covers a lot of woods. I haven't counted them but the "Hundreds" in the title is not an exaggeration. Like all books, its biggest drawback in being helpful for wood ID is that it has only one picture of each wood. As we all know, most woods don't really have a "representative" look that would help ID every piece of that wood. That's why my site has LOTS of pics of each wood. Eric chose to use a full size image, so it is of necessity of a very modest sized area (about 4" square) of each sample. The good news about this is that it shows the graininess of the face quite well. The bad news is that it's too close up to give a good feel for what the a plank of the wood actually looks like. Eric has also included a picture for most of the more common woods of an object made using the wood, which helps. His choice of pieces of each wood to photograph is good, his photography is excellent, and the color plates are good but do suffer pretty severely from the problem of darkening. I corresponded w/ Eric about this and he is frustrated by it. His original images were quite good and in the proof copy he approved they looked good on the page, but when they were printed on glossy paper, there was a lot of darkening. The affect of this on the accuracy of the wood color varies, but it's a problem in all such books. A further advantage of this book is that Eric has images of, and discussions of, the end grain closeups that can be so important in doing wood identification. Sadly, the darkening of the pics is the worst on some of these, compounded by a loss of contrast/detail, to the point of making them not very useful. The end grain pics on his site are much better. Like most such references that have end grain pics (the few that HAVE end grain pics) it suffers from the fact that it's not much help in identifying a wood unless you have a pretty good guess about what wood it is, or at least can narrow it down to a small number of possibilities. That's why on my site's anatomy pages I categorize the end grain pics so that you can use the characteristics of an unknown wood to target the search (for example, ring porous -> large rays -> parencyhama characteristics -> etc.). Hoadley has a decision tree that helps do the same thing. Anyway, I consider this a great addition to my bookshelf. Eric said it took him 6 years to get it done and I believe it. It was time well spent. There's more good stuff I could go on about, but buy one and you'll see what I mean :smile ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For the Wood Aficionado and Woodworker who wants more info on Selecting woods *by C***. on May 27, 2026* A Medium sized Hardcover book, with excellent scientific introduction to grain pattern, textures, colors, hardness, and various wood facts, then goes into a index of various select woods along with scientific names, species info, closeup photos.. Each glossy page has nice photos of the wood in finished/unfinished samples. Was reluctant to spend the money on it, but if you are into wood/woodworking, this is a MUST. Pleased with this purchase. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have 3 books on exotic woods. This is one of the best. *by A***R on September 2, 2026* Very good book. Has good general information on tree growth and wood description. Good photos of wood and 10x of growth rings. ## Frequently Bought Together - WOOD! 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