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Harry M I’ve watched just about all of their videos. As a newbie I’ve learned so much. I get a bigger kick out of watching the girls build being that I’m one myself.😀
Hi Janine, thank you! She was very nervous! But she really wanted to do the video. Someday we’ll have to show off her collection of wood species. She loves science & woodworking both. And she has become a very good woodworker over the last several years.
King's Fine Woodworking I couldn’t tell she was nervous because she did an excellent job. I hope she has more speaking parts soon.😉 Who said older folk can’t learn from the young?
Hmmm... I'll bet there's at least 4 species in that collection that are NOT harvested, then transported down a river to the mill for processing! Fun video to watch... My granddaughters will enjoy this one for sure!
Nice video! I am from Argentina, the railway sleepers here in my country, in some parts of the country are still from QUEBRACHO, they are more than a hundred years old and they do not even rot, it is really impressive. One of the best woods in the world!
I have a new found fascination with wood. Sign that I´m getting old. I've always found woods intersting though. As a child in Cuba, I grew up around mahoagny and cedro furniture. Caoba (Cuban mahogany) is one of my favorite woods, and cedro (Cuban cedar, cedrela odorata) has the most amazing smell. It will give your home a characteristic smell that I still remember from my grand parents' house.
Thank you! Very cool! We specified Purple Heart Mahogany for our custom designed outdoor benches for signature looks. I worked on 3 waterfront park designs in Boston during 1980-1990 for Carol R. Johnson and Associates, Landscape Architects and Site Planners. Wish this video was available to us during those years- who knows what creative work it would have inspired!
If you don't submit that for a science grade you will be missing out! "The Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It Down". By Adam Savage
As a son of a carpenter in the Philippines, I have seen lots of wood…rosewood/nara and ebony/ironwood are my favorite😊, however, it is getting harder and harder to get a hand on these woods so we sorted to mahogany and we kept pieces of furniture made from these woods for ourselves😂…the family shifted to working with aluminum windows, cabinets and upholstery 😅
Hi from India. Simply loved this video. I am a writer and write a lot of woodworking articles. So, I found this video so interesting because I have written about most of the types of wood that you featured here. Extremely well-made video. Keep up the good work!
Kudos James! This attests to your pedagogue skills! Not only did you manage to skillfully teach us about the different woods of the world but you we had a great opportunity to Sai in action! Thanks again and as always looking forward to your next production.
I just completed carving a hatchet handle out of Ipe by hand. What a chore that was. Turned out well for what it took to carve it. I won't try it again.
On Aruba we also have the axe breaker tree. Till this day the hardest wood I have personally have come across. Ow I forgot we call it kibrahacha. The papiamento name sounds almost identical, we say kibrahacha instead of quebrahacha. I did not expect to see that one in your list.
I live in Bolivia, SA and we have Guayacaun, what you call Lignum Vitae (tree of life). It smells so good when you cut a little of it but after cutting it for a few days the smell starts to get to me. It makes beautiful furniture and doors but is mostly used in making small tourist items from what I have seen . I cut blanks for a couple hundred flutes one day but went through a few saw blades. My favorite though, is Tajibo (some call it Ipe). Most of the things I make are made from this. It isn't as dense as Lignum but it doesn't float either. My other favorite is called Roble, which translates to Oak but is a lot lighter and oily. It also has a pleasant smell when cutting.
Hi Keni, that’s amazing. I wish we were able to directly import that wood from Bolivia. We love working with both Guayacaun, and Ipe! Thank you for sharing that info.
I congratulate you for this exhibition of woods very educational and made was very good original and different ideas and the feminine touch of the Girl excellent and different Congratulations greetings from Mexico
Interesting thing i found with yellow heart wood. It glows under a black light. I found this out when i was looking for the light switch in my shop and i had a black light in my pocket. I turned it on to find the switch and all of the sawdust from the yellow heart i cut the day before, lit up the shop under the black light.
Another enjoyable video. I love that you and your family do this together. With your top quality content, I can easily imagine your subscriber numbers skyrocketing in the not too distant future. Keep 'em coming. Cheers.
Outstanding educational video. Not only learning about the different types of woods, and their densities, but a geography lesson as to where they come from throughout the world. Nice to see Sai in action and not just "photo-bombing,"........lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Using this video in my Mechanical Engineering class showing the stability and instability of cubes in water. Those cubes with density greater than 0.79 g/cm^3 (but less than 1.0) and those cubes with density less than 0.21 g/cm^3 will float in a stable horizontal position. The rest of them float in a tipped over position to find their stability (or sink). Pause at 0:53 for a good look at them.
Yep just watched it again lol.. That was a brilliant display and Sai's delivery was superb ! Balsa is 10x the density of Lignum.. The float test..! Awesome man and fact that I'm sitting here with the first full set of your blocks you have sent out makes me smile so much.I'm even wearing a 'Kings Comm' T-shirt right now.Great clip my brother
Very nice video, it's amazing to see woodworkers that love wood like you guys, and Sai is probably a better woodworker than the average Joe (me included), looking at this video, you have to realize that trees are the most important species on the planet, tree provides so much when alive; generating oxygen from bad gases, providing shelter and shade and housing for animals, holding the ground from erosion, providing material for building houses, furniture and more, used for tools, hunting, weapons, source of heat for humanity to warm us and preparing food... the list is almost endless... Thank God for Trees!!!
Gosh, I wish I can send you some kamagong/Philippine ebony, tindalo, narra, yakal, molave. Or even just the coco lumber and rattan. They are all so beautiful.
Hey there bud!! I enjoyed the video, it was very informative intriguingly interesting. I especially loved the water test, that was pretty awesome. I'm a newbie in the wood game, I just recently found myself very interested in rocks gems wood and various metals and paints
James - really nice to see a visual demo of wood density, shows the differences. I have a fairly old woodworking manual that suggests a species called Brazil Wood is marginally denser than Lignum but I'm not sure what that is and suspect which piece of wood you test varies to the extent that the results are not entirely representative, so maybe it's not!
I work with Osage Orange, known locally as Bodark or even Bois d'Ark if you're from the French Quarters and some samples I have will sink and others will float. It depends on how fresh cut it is and how near a knot it was cut from.
You need to get a piece of Acacia acuminata. We call it JAM. It smells delicious when you cut it. Native to South West, Western Australia. The colour variation is amazing also.
I wish I could!! So many amazing species in Australia that I just can’t get ahold of. So sad. I am very fortunate though that a Wonderful friend sent me some Australian Buloke!
To be honest I'd never heard of Buloke. I'll see what I can do. But one problem we have here is some timbers have multiple names, for same timber. Others have multiple species of different trees which share the same common name. Victoria Ash, Tasmanian Oak. Neither true ash nor oak.
According to the Janka hardness chart, it appears that Orange-osage, or hedge apple is among, if not the hardest, wood that grows in the USA. I think if you're looking for hardwood and don't want to pay higher prices, then this could be a good alternative. (Paul Sellars likes this wood for mallets.)
photo bomber (aka Sai) speaks! this was awesome guys. i always knew that some of these were pretty dense and i would have bet money that a couple "wood" have sunk. i was wrong. LOL. I just want to point out to some - density does not dictate hardness.
What a fun and interesting video. Thank you James for putting this together. Now I know why the Bocote I used for rolling pin rests ruined my cheap Sears router bit!
Hi Michael, some of those harder woods are brutal on blades and bits. We go through a lot of drill bits drilling the heads of our Thor’s Hammer Mallets. It really can add to the cost of a project.
A fantastic presentation, you must be incredibly proud of both your daughters and it obvious you have a wonderfully close family. I’m new to woodworking and those woods were gorgeous, but something concerns me about exotics. We know deforestation is causing massive damage in parts of the world, so is there some international standard (I’m a Brit) that says its responsibly sourced?
Man, your missing all the Aussie timbers, we have coolabah, brown and red mallee, blackwood, all sorts of eucalypts, tulipwood, myrtle and a bunch of other species
Hi Liam, I know! Most of them I cannot get here! It’s very sad. But I have a wonderful friend in Australia who just sent me the most beautiful Australian Buloke! I can’t wait to turn it into something beautiful!
Here in Australia we have a lot of gorgeous hardwoods that are probably the best in the world.. One that would match the densest wood in the world would be Red or Grey Ironbark... Even Brush Box is a mongrel to machine once seasoned
King's Fine Woodworking one of my favorite wood color and grains. It seems like everyone wants to duplicate that look with composites and none can compare or come close. I'd love to build a dock with some of these other species you show here.
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we have our own Borneo ironwood(terbelian) with density of 835-1,185 kg/m3, juz to let u know
Very educational! That’s the first time I’ve heard Sai talk. She’s so intelligent and a great builder too!
Harry M I’ve watched just about all of their videos. As a newbie I’ve learned so much. I get a bigger kick out of watching the girls build being that I’m one myself.😀
Hi Janine, thank you! She was very nervous! But she really wanted to do the video. Someday we’ll have to show off her collection of wood species. She loves science & woodworking both. And she has become a very good woodworker over the last several years.
King's Fine Woodworking I couldn’t tell she was nervous because she did an excellent job. I hope she has more speaking parts soon.😉 Who said older folk can’t learn from the young?
This is probably one of the coolest wood videos I've seen in a long time!
Hmmm... I'll bet there's at least 4 species in that collection that are NOT harvested, then transported down a river to the mill for processing! Fun video to watch... My granddaughters will enjoy this one for sure!
Nice video! I am from Argentina, the railway sleepers here in my country, in some parts of the country are still from QUEBRACHO, they are more than a hundred years old and they do not even rot, it is really impressive. One of the best woods in the world!
I have a new found fascination with wood. Sign that I´m getting old. I've always found woods intersting though. As a child in Cuba, I grew up around mahoagny and cedro furniture. Caoba (Cuban mahogany) is one of my favorite woods, and cedro (Cuban cedar, cedrela odorata) has the most amazing smell. It will give your home a characteristic smell that I still remember from my grand parents' house.
In my opinion this is one of the best demonstrations of wood properties I've seen yet. Thanks so much!
Very interesting! I love, in the beginning of the video, how Sai tries NOT to smile and look at the camera! LOL!! A star is born!! :)
Thank you! Very cool! We specified Purple Heart Mahogany for our custom designed outdoor benches for signature looks. I worked on 3 waterfront park designs in Boston during 1980-1990 for Carol R. Johnson and Associates, Landscape Architects and Site Planners. Wish this video was available to us during those years- who knows what creative work it would have inspired!
Great video as always!! It was an absolute pleasure to listen to Sai in this video. Keep up the great work King family!
If you don't submit that for a science grade you will be missing out!
"The Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It Down". By Adam Savage
Hi Drew! Well, I am a scientist. And I concur!! haha.
As a son of a carpenter in the Philippines, I have seen lots of wood…rosewood/nara and ebony/ironwood are my favorite😊, however, it is getting harder and harder to get a hand on these woods so we sorted to mahogany and we kept pieces of furniture made from these woods for ourselves😂…the family shifted to working with aluminum windows, cabinets and upholstery 😅
Hi from India. Simply loved this video. I am a writer and write a lot of woodworking articles. So, I found this video so interesting because I have written about most of the types of wood that you featured here. Extremely well-made video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Sai and James for a very interesting and informative video
Kudos James! This attests to your pedagogue skills! Not only did you manage to skillfully teach us about the different woods of the world but you we had a great opportunity to Sai in action! Thanks again and as always looking forward to your next production.
Thank you sir. That is very kind!
It was a very kind comment indeed ! Also just Karma.. So many people with so much love and respect for you James.I wonder why.. :)
I just completed carving a hatchet handle out of Ipe by hand. What a chore that was. Turned out well for what it took to carve it. I won't try it again.
On Aruba we also have the axe breaker tree. Till this day the hardest wood I have personally have come across. Ow I forgot we call it kibrahacha. The papiamento name sounds almost identical, we say kibrahacha instead of quebrahacha. I did not expect to see that one in your list.
You keep calling lignum vitae the densest in the world and you’re gonna hurt it’s feelings.
Very cool experiment! I was surprised by the balsa being able to float the lignum vitae!
I live in Bolivia, SA and we have Guayacaun, what you call Lignum Vitae (tree of life). It smells so good when you cut a little of it but after cutting it for a few days the smell starts to get to me. It makes beautiful furniture and doors but is mostly used in making small tourist items from what I have seen . I cut blanks for a couple hundred flutes one day but went through a few saw blades.
My favorite though, is Tajibo (some call it Ipe). Most of the things I make are made from this. It isn't as dense as Lignum but it doesn't float either. My other favorite is called Roble, which translates to Oak but is a lot lighter and oily. It also has a pleasant smell when cutting.
Hi Keni, that’s amazing. I wish we were able to directly import that wood from Bolivia. We love working with both Guayacaun, and Ipe! Thank you for sharing that info.
Nice video. Something that would be interesting if you decide to make another would be to talk about hardness in addition to density.
Never knew playing with woods could be so fun... perhaps my new found hobby.
I congratulate you for this exhibition of woods very educational and made was very good original and different ideas and the feminine touch of the Girl excellent and different
Congratulations greetings from Mexico
why is it that the exotics are so dense? I mean what is so different about the surroundings that trees would evolve in such a way?
Oak is on of my faves. I know its a "simple wood" anyone can get but its very pretty
Looks like Sai has her science project completed already for this school year! Very cool video and a nice change of pace from seeing sawdust fly!
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Love it James! I thought it would be cool if you could possibly show pictures of the tree these come from!!
Interesting thing i found with yellow heart wood. It glows under a black light. I found this out when i was looking for the light switch in my shop and i had a black light in my pocket. I turned it on to find the switch and all of the sawdust from the yellow heart i cut the day before, lit up the shop under the black light.
Well done Sai , you did an amazing job .
Great video and big up to Sai for speaking on camera!!!
Another enjoyable video. I love that you and your family do this together.
With your top quality content, I can easily imagine your subscriber numbers skyrocketing in the not too distant future. Keep 'em coming.
Cheers.
Hi Sean, that is very kind! Thank you so much!
What a great video! As usual very informative. Great to hear Sai, she is a lovely and intelligent young lady!
Hi! Thank you. Sai was so nervous, but she really wanted to do this video. I’m very happy she did, since she had a lot of fun!
Love this! Wood working videos for nerds!
Wow, another incredible video. These educational videos are just what are needed. Thank you!
I had no idea that there are types of wood that don't actually float. Mind blown! And your daughter is adorable btw.
Excelente aula, sua filhinha é uma ótima professora. Parabéns a todos e obrigado por mais este vídeo. Abraços a toda família do Brasil
Most people plant hard woods but remember soft woods are necessary for those birds which live in hole nests.
Very nice comparison. Interesting to see the differences. Nice work everyone!!
Outstanding educational video. Not only learning about the different types of woods, and their densities, but a geography lesson as to where they come from throughout the world. Nice to see Sai in action and not just "photo-bombing,"........lol. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the education on wood James and family. Love your videos!!
Using this video in my Mechanical Engineering class showing the stability and instability of cubes in water. Those cubes with density greater than 0.79 g/cm^3 (but less than 1.0) and those cubes with density less than 0.21 g/cm^3 will float in a stable horizontal position. The rest of them float in a tipped over position to find their stability (or sink). Pause at 0:53 for a good look at them.
Yep just watched it again lol.. That was a brilliant display and Sai's delivery was superb ! Balsa is 10x the density of Lignum.. The float test..! Awesome man and fact that I'm sitting here with the first full set of your blocks you have sent out makes me smile so much.I'm even wearing a 'Kings Comm' T-shirt right now.Great clip my brother
Very nice video, it's amazing to see woodworkers that love wood like you guys, and Sai is probably a better woodworker than the average Joe (me included), looking at this video, you have to realize that trees are the most important species on the planet, tree provides so much when alive; generating oxygen from bad gases, providing shelter and shade and housing for animals, holding the ground from erosion, providing material for building houses, furniture and more, used for tools, hunting, weapons, source of heat for humanity to warm us and preparing food... the list is almost endless... Thank God for Trees!!!
That was fun! Thanks!
Wow some beautiful amazing species of wood there thanks for sharing james
James is a pro woodworker. Seems like he has a great family as well. I subscribed.
Fun, interesting, and informative!
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That was fun!!
Nicely done Sai 👍🏻
I’d like to see a guitar body made up of those blocks of various species, that would look so cool; a possible future build maybe !
Amazing video man !!!!!!
Very cool video!! Interesting to see how they act in water. 👍👍
Thanks for the demo, very informative
Awesome demonstration. Another great video. Thanks.
I just saw this! I love it ❤️
What a neat demonstration 👍
You guys are so very smart 😀
I love Sai talking in this video ❤️
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Very cool video! I'd be interested in seeing what would happen if they were all stuck together and put in the tank.
Fantastic presentation!
Hi Alfred, thank you!
Very cool way to explain the density of woods. Great job King Family
Thank you very much!
exellent video. I made the cabinets for my house with bubinga and many tools with exotic woods, and a big table 7' x 4' x 3" t, with mesquite, thanks
great info for wooden fishing lures makers
That was really cool and educational. Thanks.
creative video. makes you think about the characteristics of different species of wood.
I had an uncle who had night sticks made of lignum vitae. A wonderful labor-saving device. One thump per person.
I like the demo and love the explanations there is a density scale!
Thank you!
Gosh, I wish I can send you some kamagong/Philippine ebony, tindalo, narra, yakal, molave. Or even just the coco lumber and rattan. They are all so beautiful.
Also magkono ironwood in the Philippines
I think "Narra" is mentioned here - the phil mahogany.
Hey there bud!! I enjoyed the video, it was very informative intriguingly interesting. I especially loved the water test, that was pretty awesome. I'm a newbie in the wood game, I just recently found myself very interested in rocks gems wood and various metals and paints
Super interesting! How many species of wood does your family have in its collection?
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This was cool!❤
James - really nice to see a visual demo of wood density, shows the differences. I have a fairly old woodworking manual that suggests a species called Brazil Wood is marginally denser than Lignum but I'm not sure what that is and suspect which piece of wood you test varies to the extent that the results are not entirely representative, so maybe it's not!
I work with Osage Orange, known locally as Bodark or even Bois d'Ark if you're from the French Quarters and some samples I have will sink and others will float. It depends on how fresh cut it is and how near a knot it was cut from.
Very good demonstration
thank you wood is so pretty and so many colors
Great lesson, you made this very interesting!Thank you
Hi Steven, Thank you!
Very cool James & Sai
Thank you Andrew!
Fascinating. I said 'wow' just a second before Sai 8:12 !
Very interesting video!!
That was an interesting demonstration.
Thank you Don!
Great video idea. Very interesting
You need to get a piece of Acacia acuminata. We call it JAM. It smells delicious when you cut it. Native to South West, Western Australia. The colour variation is amazing also.
I wish I could!! So many amazing species in Australia that I just can’t get ahold of. So sad. I am very fortunate though that a Wonderful friend sent me some Australian Buloke!
To be honest I'd never heard of Buloke. I'll see what I can do. But one problem we have here is some timbers have multiple names, for same timber. Others have multiple species of different trees which share the same common name. Victoria Ash, Tasmanian Oak. Neither true ash nor oak.
@@LostWhits a lot of Australian timber common names are chosen for passing similarity to their European namesake.
Nice . Fun to see .
Very useful and inspiring.
A really beautiful wood is the cedro canjerana, it has a strong red color
Great video!
Cool video guys, well put together and interesting...
Thank you!!
Awesome learning about these exotic woods
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
No Aussie hardwoods, we have some really dense and beautiful hardwoods over here like Jarrah etc
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@@Kurokubi Oooh, missed that one!! Glad we got a mention!
According to the Janka hardness chart, it appears that Orange-osage, or hedge apple is among, if not the hardest, wood that grows in the USA. I think if you're looking for hardwood and don't want to pay higher prices, then this could be a good alternative. (Paul Sellars likes this wood for mallets.)
Osage is not in the ballpark of truly hard timbers.
Your video is very informative and enjoyable to watch, and your daughter is beautiful.
Lots of love from Iran, by me and my girlfriend.
photo bomber (aka Sai) speaks! this was awesome guys. i always knew that some of these were pretty dense and i would have bet money that a couple "wood" have sunk. i was wrong. LOL. I just want to point out to some - density does not dictate hardness.
What a fun and interesting video. Thank you James for putting this together. Now I know why the Bocote I used for rolling pin rests ruined my cheap Sears router bit!
Hi Michael, some of those harder woods are brutal on blades and bits. We go through a lot of drill bits drilling the heads of our Thor’s Hammer Mallets. It really can add to the cost of a project.
Very interesting, informative, and well presented, thanks
Thank you Chris!
A fantastic presentation, you must be incredibly proud of both your daughters and it obvious you have a wonderfully close family. I’m new to woodworking and those woods were gorgeous, but something concerns me about exotics. We know deforestation is causing massive damage in parts of the world, so is there some international standard (I’m a Brit) that says its responsibly sourced?
Hardest wood I ever worked with was Dade County Pine. I could not put a nail into it.
This was a very cool video! Very well put together, informational, and entertaining. Sai did a wonderful job as well. Very well spoken!
Great video James...
This was so interesting to watch!! New sub here
Thats great !
Awesome very very cool thank you
From the sinking woods which would you recomend to try to make a fishing lure out of?
Man, your missing all the Aussie timbers, we have coolabah, brown and red mallee, blackwood, all sorts of eucalypts, tulipwood, myrtle and a bunch of other species
Hi Liam, I know! Most of them I cannot get here! It’s very sad. But I have a wonderful friend in Australia who just sent me the most beautiful Australian Buloke! I can’t wait to turn it into something beautiful!
I drool over some of the Aussie timber. Hard to get here in the US, though. You'd think there was a giant ocean between us or something :D
Not to mention blackheart sassafras which to me is one of the most gorgeous woods in the world
Here in Australia we have a lot of gorgeous hardwoods that are probably the best in the world.. One that would match the densest wood in the world would be Red or Grey Ironbark... Even Brush Box is a mongrel to machine once seasoned
Colin Tebble What about Jarrah Colin? I have seen wooden steps made from Jarrah that are 150 years old and hardly seem worn!
I build a lot of decks using Ipe. Very dense and also known as Ironwood. It's beautiful and the wood grain looks similar to a digital print.
Yes! I love Ipe! It is remarkable! So dense, and so very strong. It’s an amazing species!
King's Fine Woodworking one of my favorite wood color and grains. It seems like everyone wants to duplicate that look with composites and none can compare or come close. I'd love to build a dock with some of these other species you show here.