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Article: One tough nut: Hickory's tough-guy reputation still precedes it, but many have found useful applications for the wood's steam bending properties as well.(WOOD OF THE MONTH: Hickory)
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- Wood & Wood Products
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- January 1, 2007
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When people talk about hickory lumber and wood products, the adjectives fly. Hickory is not just tough, it is very tough. The wood isn't simply hard, it is extremely hard. As to being dense, strong and durable, well you get the picture. Albert Constantine Jr. writes in the book Know Your Woods, "Some woods are stronger than hickory and others are harder, but the combination of strength, toughness, hardness and stiffness possessed by hickory has not been found to the same degree in any commercial wood."
Hickory sold as Lumber and veneer--the so-called true hickories--comes from a variety of Carya species, usually Carya ovata, Carya glabra, Carya tomentosa, and ...
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