The Real Wood Bible: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Choosing and Using 100 Decorative Woods

Nice informative book, but probably best only for those really interested in building furniture or other wood projects. Not a lot of information for general public.

This book answers a lot of questions about wood and woodworking.

Great book! Buy this if you’re starting your journey into woodworking.

The book is full of good to know Info of that different woods. Sometimes a little hard to find some of the woods, especially with local names. Am I Latin leaves a lot to be desired. They give the woods in the Latin name also.

Besides great detailed color pictures of the various woods, it talks about each wood's sustainability, if it's considered an endangered species, strengths and weaknesses in woodworking, where it's grown and how available it might be. It speaks of attributes like if it darkens over time, does it tool burn easily, is the grain tight or strait or difficult to machine, is it a hard softwood or soft hardwood or really hard hardwood etc, if it splits easily and needs to be pre-drilled, many important aspects a woodworker would be interested in. It also gives alternative names which is really helpful. It describes what the wood is commonly used for and why. The beginning of the book explains things like how wood is milled i.e., quarter-sawn, flat-sawn etc. and give a general overview of how wood is surfaced, sized and sold as lumber.

here is a real book for wood lovers . The photos are well precise and cleverly parted diagonally by two ( natural hue and tinted ) it gives a remarkable idea of the wood. There is also a plank with a cross section. really a good job. And also the explanations on the wood well documented.

Great condition and as advertised.

This is my first book on wood identification. As others have said, end grain pictures with magnified close ups would make it a much more useful manual. I'm sure it will help but I'll be buying one with end grain pics. There is a lot of good info in this book so not a waste of money by any means.