Sassafras Timber Flooring

The wood which continues to be used in furniture was often used in flooring and bedsteads because people believed the sassafras fragrance would drive away bedbugs and other pesky insects.

Sassafras timber flooring.

It is used for both veneer and lumber and might be at its best when quartered. With open grain soft texture and light brown color it is sometimes used as a chestnut substitute. See the articles wood allergies and toxicity and wood dust safety for more information. Finishing to a grey and golden tone it is particularly attractive as a veneer or as a solid timber with knots providing figure.

Sassafras is used for flooring and general millwork and was highly prized by the indians for dugout canoes and is sometimes still used in small boats. The blackheart occurs in very few trees it is an unusual viral fungus which usually affects the tree after storm damage or crown damage. Solid composite hardwood flooring. Sassafras also makes nice flooring.

Sassafras trees are generally too small to be commercially viable on a large scale but limited quantities of lumber and turning blanks are available for a modest price. Solid hardwood flooring solid flooring is milled from a single slab of wood including all character marks and defects grown into the tree. Solid wood is dependent on the natural grain structure to remain flat and straight. Sassafras has the most variable and dynamic colouring the most spectacular being the blackheart sassafras.

The wood is moderately heavy moderately hard moderately weak in bending and end compression and quite high in shock resistance. Sassafras wood sassafras is a fragrant north american hardwood. The wood which continues to be used in furniture was often used in flooring and bedsteads because people believed the sassafras fragrance would drive away bedbugs and other pesky insects. If infected with a staining fungus it produces blackheart sassafras which is a distinctive dark brown or black with even green streaks running through the wood.

Early settlers also believed that beds made from sassafras would drive away evil spirits and give people restful sleep. The australian species shows beautiful spider webbing graining. It is typically 3 4 thick and must be nailed to a wood sub floor for proper installation. Wander over to borders or wherever and go to the magazine section.

Blackheart sassafras exotic wood tasmanian blackheart sassafras is a strikingly dramatic australian timber with a cream colored sapwood and wild reddish brown heartwood. You could cut 4 4 and rip several widths. Golden sassafras is a beautiful pale creamy grey to white timber.