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CRAFTS&HOB IES IDENTIFYING WOOD About Hoadley's first book,

Understanding Wood: " -Library Journal " -Forest Products Journal

"Hoadley has done an excellent job of culling and pulling together in a practical way a vast amount of information about wood. .

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"This book is for persons who wish to learn to work with wood and don 't want to spend years offrustration on trial and error

End-grain section of red oak (Quercus hand lens. rubra) as seen through a

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A common softwood, southern yellow pine (Pinus spp.), magnified

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The tropical hardwood teak (Tectona grandis), end-grain section shown

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When craftsmen, antique dealers, government officials, lawyers, museum conservators and others need wood identified, they turn to one of the leading experts in the field-R. Bruce Hoadley. Now Hoadley, a professor of wood science and technology at the University of Massachusetts, shares his expertise in this definitive book. With just the naked eye and a hand lens or elementary microscope, you will be able to identify over

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hardwoods, softwoods and tropical woods by

following the straightforward techniques described in this book. The secret to Hoadley's approach is its flexibility. Hoadley does not follow a rigid "keying out" system commonly presented in most other wood-identification texts. Rather, he makes use of a combination of procedures that allow the most direct and accurate identification of a particular wood according to the particular situation. The result: Hoadley's methods work.

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