Hi Josh and Porch People and GiGs ( Galoots in General)

​Re: Son of a Beech​

​I tried some local farmer cut air dried beech about 20 years ago, and did
not like it at all...ornery stuff
​I am NOT a wood snob, but North American beech I tried was hard to work
with hand tools, whereas European beech was easy (I bought some 8 qrtr
recently to try it out again- seems totally different, but it just may be
the actual specimens I had to work with).

My impression: the North American Beech is redder and wiry, compared to the
lighter salmon-orange- tan colored steamed European beach I tried (maybe
the steaming? I dunno).

  Our local supplier of premium hardwoods (http://www.amwoodinc.com/">http://www.amwoodinc.com/) in
Cambridge Ontario only sells the steamed European variety (for musical
instrument parts).

​Claudio​