Thread: Euro Beech - seems underated?

That’s cheap, buy all of it.
We used it to do an entire fit out of a luxury hotel, good to work with and holds finishes well. It’s quite stable when laminated too I built a boardroom table with it once came out nicely and then, to my horror, they decided to stain it with a jarrah coloured stain.

It's the European version of Vic Ash (ie it's their standard basic hardwood)

Only downside is it's a bit boring visually IMO

Lovely timber to work with. Cuts cleanly, not splintery, glues well.

As EJ says, it can look a bit plain in large items but I’ve used it for boxmaking where something ‘clean’ was called for:

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Regards,

Brian

Excellent timber to work with and is one of a few timbers that is certified safe as a teething material for kids. It's non toxic and doesnt splinter. I have made 5 or so of these play gyms for friends for their first borns.

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Originally Posted by elanjacobs

It's the European version of Vic Ash (ie it's their standard basic hardwood)

Only downside is it's a bit boring visually IMO

No, no, no, Elan; it's our job to make it unboring or interesting, as Brian has done.

Brian's Box

You can do interesting things with it, but I still say it's a pretty boring looking timber. Same way you can make all sorts of great dishes with potatoes even though they're a pretty boring food on their own

Great. Those are the answers I was hoping for. I reckon it will look good in a dovetailed drawer with Blackwood front. Nice contrast.

agree it’s a bit boring visually, but sometimes that what you want!

Originally Posted by elanjacobs

It's the European version of Vic Ash

Only ten times nicer to work.

The Stanley factory in Sheffield used Beech and stained it to look like Rosewood, these are a couple of tools that I bought recently (both from Sheffield), I sanded off the old finish (what was left of it) and re-stained with some Walnut that I had left over. Beech takes stains really well and the stain can make the Flecks pop, like in these pic's.Stanley No 4.jpgStanley Brace.jpg

Can you name your source? seems like it might be an economical choice.

Here’s a contemporary design in beech. Nice timber to work with.

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Absolutely love it.

When I was making kids toys on commish it was excellent to use.

Just hard to get at that time... and certainly not at that price

Sauce?

Source is Mathew’s Timber. I selected about 20lm earlier this week, from about 150lm available in the 25mm rack. There is also some 38, but no 50.

there’s some nice wide stuff there too. I took mostly 140-170. There were a few 250s in there.